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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