Here Calvin is on the plane. He fell asleep about 10 minutes before we took off and woke up after we arrived at the Baggage Claim area in Seattle. We couldn't ask for a better baby! :0)
Thursday night we went to a BBQ at Richard Wolf's home (Trevor's manager's manager's manager) in Seattle. Here was the view from his front patio. Wouldn't it be amazing to have that kind of view from your home?
Calvin liked his baby carrier pretty well as long as he wasn't tired. He had a hard time falling asleep in the carrier.
On Friday we went to an outdoor mall in Redmond. For dinner we went to a Greek Restaurant. Basically it was thinly sliced beef, rice, and salad with a yogurt sauce. It tasted like the sauce was just plain yogurt and dill, but it was actually really good!
Here is a view of the mall. Notice there weren't many people around. I was surprised how few people there were considering it was a Friday night.
After we went to the mall we drove around and found a park with a lake. It was really peaceful there.
Calvin did a good job sleeping that day!
On Saturday morning we went to this really great diner called Village Square Cafe. It seemed like one of those "best kept secret" places. They had these really good oat bran pancakes with maple syrup.
Later that day we went to the company picnic. I had forgotten how green Washington is!
Calvin liked to suck on his baby carrier.
Trevor liked to suck on it as well.
On Sunday we decided to visit our old church building that we attended last summer. It was nice to see everyone again! We really enjoyed being in that ward. Then we went to a park nearby and just rested.
Here is a view of the lake from the park we were at.
We also went to a rose garden by the Seattle Zoo. This is the third rose garden we have been to. There was a wedding being held there so we didn't stay too long.
There were these really interesting bushes that we thought looked like "pull aparts."
And some that looked like ice cream cones.
The lake was packed on Sunday with boaters out for a Sunday swim.
There is also a cool floating bridge that connects Seattle and Redmond. It was fun to drive across (when there wasn't a lot of traffic).
Monday was my birthday! In the evening we went to downtown Seattle to celebrate. It was fun walking down Pike Place Market and remembering everything we did last summer. We also remembered how hard it is to drive downtown. Seattle was NOT built to have a lot of drivers. We went to Red Robin for dinner on the pier.
So that is just a brief overview of what we did. We had lots of fun and enjoyed seeing different parts of the Seattle area that we didn't have a chance to explore last summer. We also went to the Bite of Seattle, Bellevue Square Mall, Marymoore Park, Microsoft's campus, and other things I can't think of right now. For the most part Calvin was an excellent baby. Everyone who saw him thought he was adorable and he is starting to smile more and more. He is sleeping through the night now (except the night before my birthday he was up every single hour...). He goes to bed around 10 pm and wakes up at 5 am. He eats and then usually sleeps between one to three more hours.
We're so grateful that we're able to do so many fun things this summer!
4 comments:
You do have a really good baby! I can't believe he slept that long on the plane ride and already sleeping the night! Glad you had a nice vacation. It looked like a lot of fun!
Calvin is so cute! Looks like you had a great vacation.
WOW! I know that Taylor and Thomas did not travel that well. We went on long trips with both of them when they were two months old. I am glad you had a good weekend and a good birthday!
Sounds like the perfect little travel baby! And, you all must've been a little hungry at that garden...pull aparts, ice cream cones? haha. But, it looks like you had a great vacation. And, yes, we'd LOVE a house with a view like the one of Trevor's manager's manager's manager. :)
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