Though not one of the typically beautiful or ornate Temples it does case a majestic scene view over the landscape of Bellevue.  Settled among the trees and green it’s white exterior is certainly a beautiful sight.  We stopped and the manicured ground with a loaded with flowering trees and bushes it was a peaceful beautiful place.  We are lucky that it will be so close to us, only a few blocks away.  Excited to spend some time going to this lovely place.

We had to remind ourselves that we didn’t have to stress out and see it all that we are moving there so we could just chill out and enjoy the trip.  We did want to at least get to one of the national parks, so My Mr planned the route and one of the days we took to the road and hopped a ferry to Olympic National Park.  The drive was a little long for us weary travelers but the ferry ride, which was kinda cool, little ride gave us a little bit to get out of the car and walk around the boat and see the sights!  We got to drive our little rental car on to the ferry and again I was glad that My Mr. was driving.  Now I have seen plenty of Seagulls in my time, but these lovely birds came and sat on the railing just staring at us like, “what are you guys doing on our boat.”  But there was something beautiful about them in their smooth white feathers.  As we pulled out to the channel we found ourselves swamped with sailboats on either side of us, it was such a pretty sight.  All those people out for a weekend sailing trip!  Then we hopped off (or drove off really) and drove the distance to the park, stopping to enjoy the lovely water scenes.  We seemed to chase the rain away this weekend, with only the first day being covered by rain, but the day of our trip to Olympic the sky was sunny and bright, can’t ask for more then that.  We’ll be sure to try the other near by parks in the future!

My Mr and I went this past weekend for a little Seattle reconnaissance trip and a little celebration for our Seventh Anniversary!  We got busy seeing the new place and checking out the new ward and basically getting use to the dang streets.  And I mean streets.  There is no rhyme or reason to the streets, you’ll be going down it and half way through it will just change names, and then a little bit later it will return to the original name.  You pull out of a street and rights it’s 100th and left it’s whatchamacallit Road.  It’s baffling to me.  Second qualm with the streets is the size of the streets these are mini streets and I think to really feel like the lanes are large you need to be driving a smart or European car, these American cars don’t fit on these streets, I had multiple heart attacks with just My Mr at the wheel.  But so far those are my only qualms which isn’t that bad right!
We arrived on our flight to some light rain and cloudy skies and went directly to the the legendary Pikes Place Markets.  This place is just like everyone has described and has taken photos of.  Now for me I thought Pikes was strictly a fish selling location, and yes they sell it there but that isn’t all.  To my delight they have these amazing flower sections where there are flowers of every kind and color, I was blown away.  They had huge bushels of daffodil’s, one of my favorite flowers.  It was all I could do to resist and not buy some, they were a pretty good price but would be hard to travel with.  So I took the photo and promised to return soon and buy them all!!  There were numerous booths selling all kinds of items from product to jewelery and all likes of clothing accessories.  They had these fun puzzle fish that I will be returning to buy for My Mr’s birthday I’m sure.  Then we took in the Seattle docks with all the mechanical loading arms in the boating facilities, amazing.  Later in the day My Mr took me to Alki Beach to take in the view of the whole cityscape.  The clouds filled the sky’s and sprinkles came down as we admired the new surroundings.  Though we won’t live in Seattle city area it has a lot to offer and we are excited to try everything!