Seattle Day 1

We left Raleigh at the crack of dawn (thanks dad for the ride!) on our adventure to Seattle. We arrived in Seattle around 11:20 AM...the 3 hour time difference helps a lot! The flights were good although the second 4 1/2 hour flight was pretty long with a 10-month old playful baby. Ellie did really well though. She slept the entire first flight and then slept for a few minutes of the second flight and played the rest of the time. We were glad that we brought her some good snacks and toys. We were extra lucky because we had a seat in between us on both flights. We tried the trick of picking the window and aisle seats and hoping no one would pick the middle...and it worked!

When we arrived in Seattle we picked up our bag and rented a car. The coerced us into upgrading to a bigger car which left us a little bitter but it was probably good to have the extra room for all the baby equipment. We plugged in our GPS and headed out to Jack and Paula's house. The took us out to lunch at Anthony's where we tried our first clams, dipped in butter---yummy!

Jason had fish and chips and I had prawns and chips. They call shrimp prawns around here.... Lunch was very good--- thanks Jack and Paula!

After lunch we stopped by their house for a little bit and said hi to the cats. After that we decided to head out to the hotel to get ch

ecked in and unload. After a busy day of traveling we were tired so we ordered pizza delivery to the room (Pagliacci's...a local chain around here) and went right to bed.