We went down to the big city to get a crib and a dresser. First we drove 30 miles east to North Bend and ate at the Double R Diner. The drive was beautiful, just great green hills piling one on top of the other. The diner is famous because it's in the show Twin Peaks. They say they also "make a damn fine cup of coffee." I'm still not used to not drinking coffee at a diner, seems sacreligious almost! I'll get back to the coffee habit in four months. The place was packed with Sunday breakfast folks, but we did get to see one man who looked just like Dr. Jacoby! He was the psychiatrist in Twin Peaks. Dana, my best friend, got us into Twin Peaks. If you haven't seen it, it is really good. We ate cherry pie, it was delicious. Jason said he had never ate cherry pie up until that point. I found that very strange.
Then we drove to Snoqualmie. They got a giant waterfall. The place was jammed with people all trying to look at the waterfall. It was a beautiful waterfall, the biggest waterfall I've ever seen.
The next day we went to IKEA. We'd never been to this giant store before. It's like a country of furniture. It's kinda weird walking through a massive building filled with living situation setups and all these people walking from one situation to another. We got our crib and dresser. I was glad to have these things bought for our son- felt pretty grown.
We went into downtown Seattle and got to thinking that we didn't want to go home that day. It was such a beautiful day there. We went to Pike's Market and ate at the brewery. Jason drank different beers and we ate a pizza Jason said was the tastiest pizza he ever ate. It was a really good pizza. Every time I gone to Pike's Market, it is so full of people. I can't tell if the people are there to for real shop for groceries or because they're tourists who want to see the men throw fish around.
We hung around Seattle for a long time, went to a couple bike shops Jason wanted to check out, and to a bar. We didn't want to leave Seattle at rush hour. We decided we would stay an extra day. Jason wanted to drink another drink at the bar, but I felt like sitting by the water and eating my leftover pizza. So we got out of there and walked to the water. There was a crowd of people all traveling in one direction, wearing Mariners stuff. Jason asked some guy if there was a game and there was! So we followed everyone else down to Safeco Field.
We were so happy to have been at the right place at the right time. We got seats three rows from the field.
There's The Kid in the dugout!
Ken Griffey Jr. up at bat! It was a thrill to see a legend so close. Another famous person we saw up close was David Cook from American Idol. This wasn't so exciting though. I was maybe excited for 2 seconds, mostly because I realized we really did have great seats. David Cook had thrown out the first pitch. He had his band with him and they were pretty obnoxious. He wanted his 50 cent change back from his pretzel. Man, talk about showing some class!
The best part of the game was seeing The Kid hit a homerun!! I don't go into games expecting such great things. The first time we saw a Giants game, we saw Barry Bonds hit a homerun and now we got to see Ken Griffey hit one. Jason spilled some beer on a man by accident, it was kind of funny. The Mariners won. We took the long walk back to the car under the bridge. So our baby's first baseball game ended up being Mariners v. A's.
We had a really great time in WA.
