SEATTLE! WOOHOO!

The wait is over! I am here to tell you about our trip. Unfortunately after this post I will have to give the computer back to my sister, Dessa-thanks BTW. Mine has totally crashed. Good news is that I should be up and running with a new one in about two weeks. Bad news is that all of my email address' will be gone. I am pretty distraught about this. When I get my new computer I would love if you all email me all your info. I had so many great things saved on that silly thing. I guess it taught me a huge lesson- always have a back up. Lucky for me or spiritual prompting I saved all my pictures from the last 3 years onto CD's just the week prior to our computer crashing.-stupid online virus'-*grrrrr!*

OK I am done. On to the good stuff.


In the picture is me, Annette, Allison, and Kim. Allison lives by me and her friend is Annette and Kim is Annette's friend. -is that confusing?- At the end of the day I got to know 2 really great girls and I am happy to call them friends. We got up stinking early Tuesday morning and flew to Seattle. We got to our hotel about 9 that morning. This is a picture of our room door. It was an art hotel, so needless to say it had some interesting pieces that our little mormon eyes weren't used to seeing.

After we checked in we grabbed breakfast at a yummy little bistro then headed to Pikes Market. I never realized that Seattle was hilly, but it is a lot like San Fran. Thank goodness for my walks every morning. Pikes Market was really fun. I couldn't believe how cheap all the flower bouquets were and the produce and of course fish. It was so pretty seeing a long row of fresh flowers. You could buy a bouquet for $5-$15. Crazy!
We got to see the famous flying fish. I thought that area would be bigger, but it is just another little section where the guys got a little more creative. After Pikes market we went to Pioneer Square where there is an underground tour. It was pretty fun to see and here the history of Seattle. There is a 3 block radius that is underground. While we were waiting for our tour we had lunch. It was Sushi! Can you believe it, I ate sushi and I kind of liked it. At least the cooked one. We went to the Space need from there. It was fun too. When you walk around it you feel like you are going to slide off it. At least I did. Maybe I was just really tired. I don't know
From the space needle we headed back to the hotel for a quick change and went out to dinner. I can't remember the name of the place, but it was good. We walked to the concert hall from there. -there was a lot of walking on Tuesday-

The concert was awesome! Justin from Blue October started it out by singing a few songs and then he turned it over to Stephenie and the host. He asked her questions about the book and stuff for about 45 minutes. After that Justin came back and h e played his songs that are on her Breaking Dawn play list. -It is on her website. She makes a play list of all the songs that she was listening to or she thinks relates to a scene in the books- It was fun listening to them. She would share her reason why she picked the song and he would say why he wrote the song. I loved his acoustic versions of the songs. I am not a big hard rock fan, but I would buy is acoustic versions in a heartbeat. While we were waiting for the book signing part a lady asked all the people who made creative shirts to come up and tell us what they say. I was so not wanting to go up there. I am a total behind the curtain type of gal, so with a lot of persuasion from the girls I went up. They said that when I said what was on my shirt *My heart belongs to my husband but my Neck belongs to Edward*the crowd cheered super loud, but all I heard was my little head voice freaking out. I was just happy that I 1. got through it 2. said it loud and slow and 3. I didn't trip on my face going to the stage and coming from it. Because I wore that shirt Stephenie Meyer stopped and talked to me while she signed my book. :o) That is what happens when you make a dorky shirt.
The next morning we woke up super early and got our rental car and headed to the Olympic Peninsula. It took us two hours longer than it should have because the rental car lady told us the long route. -the little stinker- We got to Port Angles first and had to stop in front of the Bella Italia restaurant.

The country was beautiful. We hurried out of Port Angles and headed to Forks. In Forks they had this little mom and pop burger place that had the Bella Burger, so we just had to have lunch there. It was pretty good.


We went and did a little souvenir shopping and then drove by the High School and stopped at the Chamber of Commerce where they had Bella's truck. Somewhere in the town there is a house that says Swan Residence, but with our little 2 hour detour we didn't have enough time to look for it.
The Lady at the CoC said that LaPush was only 20 minutes form there, so we decided to go and we were so glad we did. First Beach was so pretty. The clouds were rolling, so we got there just in time for a little photo op and then headed out. After LaPush we drove straight back to Seattle to catch our flight. It was such a fun trip we all agreed we could have stayed another full day just in the Olympic Peninsula.

The other girls got some more really great pictures, so when I get things rolling again in two weeks I will post some more pictures.