Monorail and downtown outing

We took advantage of the nice sunny day to make a day of it in downtown Seattle. First stop: the armory at Seattle Center where they put up a Christmas village every December that's always fun to look at. They also have a small stage where they do live entertainment, and we happen to get there in time to watch a local kids dance troupe perform scenes from Nutcracker. Evie LOVED watching the performances. I'm thinking we will definitely have to go watch the ballet next Christmas.

There's 2 trains that go around the village.

After a few minutes of Daddy's shoulders, she decided
she wanted to get closer so we grabbed seats right up front.

After a quick lunch at the food court, we took the monorail into Downtown to do some Christmas shopping. This was the first time on the monorail for Evie and she had fun exclaiming all the things we saw while on the ride - especially how we could look down on cars and look into people's apartments.

All aboard!

Before heading home, we grabbed a snack at Taylor's Shellfish. Scott and I love this oyster bar and they opened a new branch right near where we parked our car. Surprisingly, Evie was pretty adventurous with trying the seafood. She didn't have any raw oysters, but she did have lots of clams, and ate up all the seaweed in her miso soup!

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Happy new year!!

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Eating on the road

With all the COVID restrictions on restaurants and Scott not liking takeout service, we've gotten pretty good at planning meals for days we are out and about. We've basically taken to tailgating... a lot! It is nice though that it means having a hot meal to warm up after a day of playing in the snow and I'm not going to lie - it is also a good excuse to eat instant noodles because it is fast and easy and warming! For overnight stays, we end up doing instant pot meals like one-pot spaghetti or chili, or easy meals like a cheese plate or sandwiches. It does save on $ so that's definitely nice but man, I can't wait to go out to restaurants again! Beef and barley soup lunch at Mt Baker. Chillin' with Chili at Crystal Mountain. Beautiful but cold picnic in Wenatchee Little girl loving her hot ramen over Blewitt Pass Jook after sledding at Crystale Springs Chicken Noodle Soup in the snow at Salmon Ridge. Pho bowls under the ferry awning at Diablo Lake.

Glass art

We picked up our finished creations from the glass blowing class we took a few weeks ago and I think they came out great! Can you tell who made which one? Nora's sunset pumpkin, May's bluebird and Evie's snow pumpkin.

Simpsons in Seattle

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