Benjamin, Jacob and I went to Seattle, the weekend before school started, to catch a pre season NFL game.  We decided the 4 words we would use to describe Seattle was: weed, homelessness, Tesla and hills.  I had no idea how hilly Seattle was, at least downtown!!  The boys were shocked at the amount of weed on the street and all the randomness of homelessness tents and all the Teslas, everywhere!!

(The pictures are random, can't seem to get them easily moved around)

We took the ferry over to Bainbridge Island and found a marina restaurant to eat at.  I think the boys really enjoyed the ferry ride and seeing the cars and how it all worked!

The fish market.  This display is front and center and while we were amazed at them throwing fish, Benjamin told me that he thought the front fish below was alive.  I told him no, it is clearly frozen.  Turns out the fish is on a line an employee can make it move to appear its alive...it sure scared one guest as they walked by it.

At the airport before leaving

I made sure to get a hotel room on a higher floor.  Being from MT, we don't have tall buildings and figured the boys would enjoy it.  We were on the 22nd floor.  Jacob immediately saw this as he first looked out our window....He was shocked at the mats and two huge stuffed animals.

The space needle!  We rode the monorail to the Space Needle and as we approached it, I was not sure if Benjamin would go up in it.  He was not sure if the structure was safe!  In the glass elevator up, he was not too sure.  I realized, that he has a fear of heights!  He finally relaxed a bit and we got a few pictures.

At the Public Market, just had to get a picture of a violin/trumpet playing cat!

On the light rail, from airport to hotel.  As we got off the plane, it was so nice not to have to worry about keeping up/watching the boys.  I told them this trip they have to watch out for me!!  Benjamin navigated us, on his own, from the airport terminal to our hotel.  That kid is ready to travel on his own.

Jacob loved leaning up against the glass and falling into the glass face first.

This glass floor was pretty cool!

A neat little garden we found on top of the Public Market.

We did an underground tour of Seattle.  I had no idea Seattle was originally built a whole level lower...quite the history of how that all happened!

On the ferry!

Really like this statue/monument

The view from the ferry

The boys enjoyed the game.  It was a beautiful evening and the stadium ended up being about 60-65% full.  The design of the stadium makes the noise of the fans incredibly loud.  Benjamin kept saying he would love to be there for a full stadium.  Before the game he managed to get down by the field and was seconds away from a photo with the mascot, before the mascot just ran off.  So bummed.

We enjoyed several things at the Public Market, mainly funnel cake donuts, crumpets, amazing bakery and I loved these!!!  Had to go back the second day and buy more of them!! I love some garlic!!!

Benjamin bought a jersey and was able to get one signature after the game.

All in all a great trip and was very thankful we did not have any issues with people on the streets.  Really wish we had time to go to the Museum of Flight!!  The great thing, it is a very easy flight, where we can arrive at 8:30am and fly out at 9:30 pm, so would be easy to head over for a day again!!