Seattle Trip

Aaron's work was gracious enough to let him have 4 days off (actually forced him to have 4 days off is more like it, but oh well, at least he still has a job). So since his days off coincided with Kaitlyn' s spring break from pre-school, we decided to take a trip. Since we've never been to Seattle, we thought it would be fun to go visit. So we booked a hotel and went. We did some research and found a great hotel only 2 blocks from the Pacific Science Center and the Space Needle. We also found the cheapest way to go was the purchase a city pass. It got us into five wonderful Seattle attractions for more than 1/2 the cost if we had paid for them all seperatly. Our first day there was beautiful. We parked down by the pier, and went to the aquarium first. We weren't that impressed, but that could be due to the fact that it was coupon day and there had to be well over 1000 people there. It was crazy! The kids still liked the few exhibits they were able to get close to.

Our next stop was a wonderful harbor cruise tour. It was great. It was an hour long cruise ride around the bay. It was beautiful and probably the kids favorite thing we did. They even stayed outside on the deck of the boat when it started to rain (which meant that Aaron and I got to stay outside while it rained too).

After the cruise we checked into our hotel then walked to the Pacific Science Center. If any of you ever make it to Seattle I highly recommend this place. It was great. There were so many interesting things there, for adults and kids. They have an enclosed butterfly exhibit and butterflies landed everywhere. Of course everytime one landed on my kids, they quickly screamed and shook it off, so no pics. It was fun though. The only sad part was that we didn't realize it closed at 5:00 so we actually didn't get to spend as much time there as we wanted.

We then grabbed some dinner from the exquisite McDonalds (kids choice!). As part of our city pass to the science center we also got tickets to their IMAX theatre and they were showing Monsters vs Aliens in 3D. So we went back to the science center for the movie. I've never seen a 3D movie, neither has my kids, so I was a bit worried how they would like it, or if they would even keep the glasses on. My worries were unwarranted. I've never seen my kids sit so still for an hour and a half. They were enthralled. Even I must admit that it was pretty cool seeing a 3D movie on a 6 story screen.

Then it was finally time for bed. Having never slept in a hotel before, the kids were pretty wild and everybody only got about 6 hours of sleep. The next day we were going to hit the zoo first, but true to Northwest weather, it was snowing. So the zoo was out. The only left from our city pass was the Museum of Flight, which turned out to be really cool. We spent almost three hours there. The kids loved getting to sit in a bunch of big jets. We also got to tour the British Concord and see Air Force One. It was a great museum. Aaron and I would have loved to take a guided tour of it, but didn't think the kids could handle it on only 6 hours of sleep. Next time. . .

We then came home. It was a great trip.