2.28.2011

Seattle DAY 1

THE LONGEST/GREATEST DAY. EVER.
Friday was the longest day of my life. and here is why...

4:00 AM - off to the airport. 
 4:45 AM - airport fun! we love airports! 
 fast forward few hrs... 9:00 AM - arrive at Morgann's cozy house in Kent, WA
 9:10 AM - momma morgs makes us eggs
 10:00 AM - take pictures of Morgann's UHHH-MAZING view from her porch. 
this is no joke. it's awesome out there. 
 10:20 AM - driving past Mt. Reineer 
 12:30 AM - SEATTLE BABBAYYYY
 12:45 PM -Pike Place Market
 12:50 PM - people watching
 1:00 PM - throwing some fish
 1:20 PM - getting our shop on
 1:25 PM- more people watching. musicians!
 1:30 PM - First Starbucks Store...trying to see our breaths  
 1:35 PM - Pikes place has some of the coolest/most random stuff for sale. 
 1:50 PM - Ran into Bieber. who knew he was in Seattle??
....Then ran into Harry...
 ...and the Twilight crew! whoa Cat didnt see you there, thought you were part of the crew. 
 2:00 PM - checking out some more of Seattle's cool shops
 2:10 PM - walking down by the Seafront 
 2:12 PM - Ye Olde Curiosity Shop! 
 2:30 PM - had to get Beechers FAMOUS mac&cheese
so cheesy and SO SO good. 
 2:33 PM - cheeeeeeeseeeeee
 2:45 PM - quick stop to get some FRESH doughnuts. they were delish. 
 2:50 PM - GUM WALL. 
 3:30 PM - Off to the space needle we gooo!!!
 3:45 PM - SPACE NEEDLE :) 
 4:00 PM - trusted a nice stranger to take one pic of all of us. 
That's Morgann's friend Melissa with us. She goes to SPU and was our Seattle tour guide! 
 4:10 PM - some cool building by the needle
 4:30 PM - YES YES YES...THE FREEMONT TROLL! 
Saw a pic of the troll in the store and said out loud, "wait...what movie is this in??!?" I couldn't figure it out and it was bugging me..then the nice store guy comes over and says (like I'm sure he says to a billion other tourists).."10 things I hate about you." DUH! 
the troll in the movie! 
 4:45 PM - Abbie + Troll
4:46 PM - fwends
 5:00 PM - Bookstore from 10 things I hate about you. hah! 
 7:00 PM - after a yummy dinner we finally got to play some Kennect! aka..WII dance but...BETTER. 
there's no remote...there will be videos of this later. hahah, just wait. its so great.  
9:30 PM - after hours of dancing, Abbie calmed us all down with some tunes
 11:30 PM - THEN. WE. CRASHED.

I'm not kidding you people, that was THEEE LONGEST day EVER. 3am-11pm. 
20 HRS OF STRAIGHT FUN. 
loved it. So that was only day 1 of our trip..haha. I know, crazy right. By the Grace of God the weather was amazing, we had enough energy, and everything just worked out perfectly. I have a few more post coming your way with pictures from our trip to the boardwalk, the "winter ball" aka Narnia, and i'm in the process of making a little video from all that I had on my FLIP cam. 
so GET READY....this is not the end! 

3 comments:

  1. Amazing! With the 7D and Flip practically glued to your eyeballs, how did you have time to actually stop to smell the roses?

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  2. Picture of Abbie and her guitar is my favorite shot. You also do very well with scenic shots. Perhaps you should consider becoming a photo journalist.

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  3. SICK PICTURES!! So jealous you got to go to Washington!!

    We need to shoot!

    Rylie told me about this weekends photo shoot!! :(
    I wanna go but got work. Boo..

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