Seattle Trip in Pictures Part 1

Mara's first trip to Seattle went pretty well.  The first day (Friday) didn't go as planned AT ALL, because we got started about two hours late and the traffic was awful.  We didn't get into Seattle until about 10:00pm that night.  Mara had a really rough trip up.  She cried for about 2 of the 3 hours.  Actually 2 of the 4 hours because it took us 2 hours to get out of Oregon!  Anyway, despite several stops she was miserable.

Mara's little feet sticking out.

My mom after we left Centralia, WA.  We went to the Centralia Outlet stores to break up the trip.  I got Mara 1 pair of pants, 1 pair of shorts and 3 pairs of pajamas for $29 from The Children's Place outlet!!  And the lady even saved me the tax when she saw my OR drivers license.  Awesome!

The traditional I-5 selfie.

We got in at about 10, got settled and put Mara to bed (a feat in itself because the crib was very low to the ground with high sides and it was tough to get her in without waking her up.  In fact, my mom had to do it that first night!)

We had a single suite, so my mom slept in the bedroom and Mara and I slept in the living room, me on a pull-out bed.  It was actually pretty comfortable and perhaps a touch nostalgic for me because I used to sleep on a pull-out bed when I was like 9-10 years old.  I had a regular bed but I preferred that one.  Probably because it was queen sized lol.  

Anyway, the next morning we went down to breakfast and got a seat right by the window.  I was SEVERELY uncaffeinated, having been up since like 6:30am and I'm pretty used to having coffee almost right away!  This was the view during breakfast:

 For breakfast I had toast, hard boiled egg, fruit and coffee.  My mom had oatmeal and fruit.  Mara, who had nursed upstairs, had mum-mum and egg. 

"Where's my food??" (Yes she's actually pounding the table)

"Umm, Mommy are you sure this is edible?"

After breakfast we loaded up and went to Pike Place Market.  I borrowed a friend's ergobaby carrier to try out.  I am SO going to get one!! Mara loved it (she fell asleep several times in it throughout the weekend) and it was super comfy.

Posing with a fisherman carving.

The cool thing about this picture is actually what happened right before it was taken.  I was sitting on a bench across the hall from this fisherman, nursing Mara under the nursing cover, and this group of ladies came by to take pictures of each other with the fisherman.  They were speaking Spanish and one of them said to the others something like, "it's so nice that she's breastfeeding right here" in Spanish. I smiled up at her and she said, in English, "beautiful, beautiful!" I thanked her and she asked me, in Spanish, "a girl?"  I nodded. "Beautiful," she said again. It was sweet. 

We made our way through the top floor of the market, stopping to buy a T-Shirt for Mara that says "I got my looks from my daddy and my attitude from my mommy" (LOL!) and wandered down to the waterfront.  It was a beautiful day.  Clear, sunny and about 75F!  We decided to buy tickets for an Argosy harbor cruise at 3pm.  In the meantime, it was only like 10:45-11:00am, so we headed for the Seattle Great Wheel!

Mara, who had gotten tired of the ergo, waiting for the Great Wheel!

My silly kid!! I love her to bits!

To be continued in part 2.....