Sarah and Derek go to Seattle!

Hi everyone!

Derek here making one of my few posts compared to Sarah, but I just wanted to fill everyone in on our mini-vacaction to Seattle. I am currently in Tacoma, Washington, doing an ICU rotation so when I found out my official schedule, we planned a trip to fly Sarah up here so that we could make the most of the month since we have to spend most of it apart. I had a three day weekend last weekend, so we took the opportunity to fly Sarah up and do some sightseeing! We left Shelby with her Grammy at the beach, so Sarah and I had some great one-on-one time.

The above picture was our first glimpse of the Space Needle...from the parking lot of our hotel.

Whenever we go to a city that offers a Duck Tour, we always like to start off with it since it's a great way to get an overview of the city and learn the major landmarks.

Not a really important landmark, but Sarah thought it was cute and she was missing Shelby so she took a picture of the baby ducks.

The Seattle skyline form Lake Union on the Duck Tour.

So I think one of these floating houses is the house in "Sleepless in Seattle." I'm not sure which one it is, or even if it's in the picture, since I'm proud to say that I'm not a frequent viewer of that movie. So if you really want to, just ask Sarah. She was pretty excited about it.

The Space Needle from Lake Union on the Duck Tour.

After the Duck Tour, we walked to Pike's Place Market which is a public market where farmers can sell directly to consumers and no chain companies are allowed to sell there.

The fresh seafood that is caught off the coast...be careful, they throw the fish!

A typical produce stand in Pike's Market.

The only "chain" in Pike's Market...this is the original Starbucks which started out just roasting coffee for the first 10 years before they decided to actually brew the coffee for consumers!

The "Gum Wall" is a local landmark in Pike's Market. Pretty gross if you ask me.

Top Pot doughnuts is a local doughnut chain that we were told we had to check out!

Those were some BIG doughnuts, and they were good!

We took the ferry to Bainbridge Island where we watched the US women's World Cup game and did some sightseeing.

Watching the cars flow onto the ferry. They load and unload quite quickly!

As you can see in the above pictures, Seattle was quite dreary, but on the last day it cleared up so we decided to wait until then to go to the Space Needle which was once the highest tower in the city.

View of the residential area from the Space Needle.

View of the Seattle Seaport from the Space Needle.

There's our hotel! Holiday Inn Express turned out quite nicely!

Our last view of the Space Needle before we left Seattle. We had a great time, but Sarah had to get back to Shelby and I had to get back to work.

I will have another post up later this week about our visit to Mount Rainier. Thanks for stopping in!