Our Last day in Seattle

We knew there were a lot of things that we'd miss as soon as we left Seattle.  Places like Cupcake Royal, King's hamburgers, Cedar's Indian food, Honore, Walrus and the Carpenter, the list goes on (basically all we did here was eat). We decided to do as much as we could for our last day in Seattle, spent with the lovely Michelle.

We started out the day at Top Pot donuts.  Soooo good, maybe not as good as Voodoo donuts in Portland, but still, soooo good.  Especially if you love donuts as much as me.

After a visit to the U district we headed to Ballard, where we hit up the best place to eat in Seattle (even GQ says so, so yeah, legit) The Walrus and the Carpenter.  I'm not one for seafood, so the frist time we ate here I didn't really like the oysters, but everything else was really good.  We ate here a 2nd time, and all of a sudden I loved them.  So the third and final time we came here, I was so excited to have the oysters.  They serve them raw, and they taste like they just came right out of the sea.  We got there at 4 so we could get happy hour oysters, and ordered a ton.  Ugh, so good!!!!!

Red red tomatoes

Zuchinni Salad:

After that, we walked around Ballard a bit, said our goodbyes, and headed over to Gasworks Park.  On our way we stopped at the Fremont Troll, which I had only seen from the car before.  We stopped for a little photo snappin.

Here is Seth with his little baby camera.  He bought the Rebel T2i for the hi definition video, which is actually really awesome.

Last time at Gas Works, at least for a while.  They were having their annual peace fair so there were lots of hippies and they were all awesome.

That's it for Seattle, we miss it, but I am excited for new things.

My Favorite Things as of late

Pinterest

Just warning you now, this is an addictive site.  But I love it, sometimes after a long day of work I'll relax and do some pinning.  It helps keep me organized.  I used to have folders on my desktop of things I've found on the interent that I like, now I just pin them all.  I also like that it's just my friends pins that I see, not the dumb stuff people put on the interent (though sometimes I click on everything out of curiosity, and I always find the most ridiculous things).

Here's my pinterest if you want to take a look, you should join!

Turntable

When we work, Seth and I like to listen to music.  We've been listening to Pandora (I like the Beach House and Voxtroxt) but we get a little sick of it.  Seth found this site, Turntable, where you go into different rooms (they are all labeled, everything form Hip Hop to acoustic indie) and if your lucky you can dj and play your own music, or just listen to what other people play.  Seth and I both have enough points that we have bear suits now, and it's awesome.  One Friday night we realized we were complete nerds, we were both dj'ing in the same room, trying to rack up points, instead of going out.  

Crazy4Cult

I bought this book (here) and I am obsessed.  It's a bunch of artists that came together for a studio in LA called Studio 1988 and they each created art work for favorite cult movies.  A lot of my favorite movies are featured including The Shining, The Big Lebowski, Pulp Fiction, Harold & Maude, Night of the Living Dead, and Rushmore.  

Lush

I discovered Lush since living in Seattle, there's a shop downtown close to Pike Place.  MIchelle and I walked in once and I didn't expect to buy anything, I'm not picky about my shampoo or body wash (unlike my sister who is a product fiend).  But as soon as I smelled the shampoo bars and bath bombs I was in.  I now use their lotion, shampoo, soap, perfume...and occasionally I'll spend the money on a Mrs. Whippy bath bomb.  Everything smells so good there.

Tom & Lorenzo and Topless Robot

There are only 2 blogs I read consistently, and I read them everyday (another way to unwind after a long day of work).  Tom & Lorenzo are a fabulous gay couple who blog about fashion and tv shows mostly.  They do amazing recaps on Mad Men episodes.  They are so funny and down to earth (a trait that's a must for me if I"m going to read your blog).  

Topless Robot is a nerd news blog, and I'm not really a nerd, I just have some nerdy traits (especially when it comes to computer and video games, even then I don't claim to know enough about anything to consider myself a real nerd).  But Rob, who writes it, is hilarious.  I'm not always interested in the posts but the daily list are always awesome, here's one of my favorites.

True Blood

Since my favorite tv shows aren't on anymore, including the office, parks and rec, and mad men, True Blood has really filled the void.  Okay, that and Louie, which is an amazing show.  True Blood is awesome, its just so ridiculous I love it.  My all time favorite series Six Feet Under was done byt he same dude, Alan Ball.  This season is the best, and it's great because Seth watches it with me (he resisted at first, but he loves it now).

4th of July with the Family

I was so excited when my sister told me she was going to visit me here in Seattle (I love getting visitors!), and then on top of that, I found out Aunt Glo could come too, yay!.  They both came on the 4th, and it was a full house, but a happy house.  We went to Olympic National Park, did some sightseeing around the city, and did a photoshoot for both Ari and Henry.  We were able to see fireworks from the roof, so we had ourselves a little BBQ (our roof also has a grill yo) and it was a fine old time.  I'm just glad we didn't have to drive to get to fireworks, that is always a nightmare.

Ari hammin it up as usual:

The A in Ari stands for Awesome, this his him doing "spits"

Aunt glo and Cannon, best buds:

Henry asked if he could use my camera to take pictures, but since it's a rather nice camera I decided to give him one of my old point and shoots.  I made a little strap for him out of yarn and he loved it.  He took it with him everywhere we went, here he is at Sol Duc with it:

I put the images on my computer (I'm hoping to make him a little book of his time here) and I thought they were pretty neat, here are some of my favorites.

 (I might have taken this first one of Ari)

I love this one, it's of his new Dinosaur sippy cup Adrea bought him at Ballard Market:

Pics from the stroller on our way to lunch, awesome leggy shot:

Toy portraits, also awesome.

Cosi gets frustrated with Henry, but boy does he love Cosi.

Ari portraits:

These were taken on the roof, I think this girl asked if Henry would take a picture of her (tipsy much?)

And lastly, photobooth pictures!  They are the best.

As you can see, I think my little nephews are the greatest ever.