The Emerald City

Anyone reading this probably knows how much we love soccer, so when we found out our favorite MLS team was going to Seattle for their first match of the season we made plans immediately to go. Seattle is about a 12 hour drive from where we live and we have always wanted to go, so it was a no brainer. We left in the morning on a Thursday and started our drive. We left excited and ready to spend some quality time together.

The drive was beautiful with mountains covered in evergreens and the forest covered in moss. It was so green which was a nice change from our brown scenery in Idaho. We finally made it to Washington and it was pretty late so we decided to just stay in the back of our Subaru at a state park. We brought our 0 degree sleeping bags so we were plenty warm. 

 This is where we stayed ;)

We woke up the next morning and drove into Seattle and went to the downtown Market. It was the best Farmers Market ever. It was so neat with a lot of fun things to look at and purchase. We spent a couple hours looking around. 

The first Starbucks is in the market. I went to get a salted caramel hot chocolate, but they were out. I settled for a toffee hot chocolate which was still yummy. 

This was the view from the market :) 

After we left the market we went to a camping store called REI. Nick was in heaven and we were in there for like 2.5 hours. They had a cute little playground for kids with a tree house, slide, canoe, and tent. Abigail loved it! 

First time on an escalator and she LOVED it. She thought it was so funny. 

After REI we went a couple more places and then back to the hotel to get ready for dinner. We went out to dinner and then came back to the hotel and went to sleep. We got up early the next morning to go to the soccer match. We were so excited. 500 fans traveled to come to the match and we met them at a pub to walk to the stadium together. The whole way to the stadium we sang chants and it was a lot of fun. It was rainy, but we didn't really mind. 

Miss Abigail fell asleep before the game even started, but woke up for the second half. 

After the game we went back to the hotel because we were soaked from all the rain. We decided to go grab some pizza and then we went swimming in the pool at the hotel. After that we relaxed and went to bed. 

The last day we woke up and packed. We went to the Space Needle and to Alki Beach. I was so excited to see the ocean because I haven't seen it since I was about 2 years old. 

And then we drove home... It was so much fun and it was so nice to get away and spend some quality time together. 

Cuddles after a LONG drive.