Home Grown Gilsons: April 2011

Wow I need to get blogging!

We started the day by driving out to Alki beach! It was so awesome to see the city from a different view! We enjoyed the rainy whether and tried to stay warm. I can see people in Seattle love their coffee it is cold!

It's so crazy! No matter how much it rains there were always people running, biking, and having a great time!

Love these cute vacation buddies!

We collected sea shells and Jayna taught Cali the art of finding beach glass. Cali told me this was her favorite part of the trip!

Look how cute my sis is! I love this pic of her!

More collecting!

On our adventure we found a dead octopus! Did we poke it with a stick .... of course!

Another strange side story. On our way to the beach I was telling Cali the story of when a dog bit my pony tail. As we were poking the octopus a dog ran up to me and snapped at me! It was so crazy. I think I attract animals... did I mention I am terrified of dogs! More on that breaking news later.

After the beach we headed back to the waterfront! These locations were some of my favorite as a kid!

Pikes Place Market is so much fun! There are hundreds of different market type things to buy.

Beautiful flowers!

Loved this crazy guy! Singing, playing the guitar, dancing and hula hooping! We need more people like this in the world!

I wish I could go here every day and buy fresh fruit! It was so fun to see all the little shops!

Famous Pikes Place fish market! This is where the infamous fish throwing happens!

My vaca buds!

The gum wall!!! Jayna and Mike discovered this wall awhile ago and it did not disappoint! It smelled like minty, bubble gummy deliciousness!

Cali making her contribution!

I hope to bring Tyler back here sometime very soon!

Next we headed to the Seattle Science Museum. This place was amazing. We spent about 4 hours there and it still wasn't enough. One of our favorite places exhibits was the butterfly park! There were butterflies everywhere!

They had animatronic dinosaurs! They moved and grooved and were life size! It was awesome!

Two words: Lazer Beatles! Mikey had the best idea of taking us to the lazer light show. It was all Beatles music with crazy amazing lazer effects! We all felt like we had smoked some good shrooms after that!

A cool sculpture outside the museum!

Worlds largest guitar!

Outside the science center shooting the water cannons!

We loved this place and hope to go back soon!

Next we headed to Ellensburg! But first we made a stop at Snoqualmie Falls! We loved getting sprayed and seeing the beautiful sights!

Saturday March 26th we woke up to a beautiful rainy Washington morning. Jayna and Mike met us at the hotel (where the Warren Jeffs retreat for women was being held) and we headed to Seattle.

We started on the duck boats tour. I would highly highly recommend this experience! These boats were built during WWII to transfer goods all around the Puget sound. They are both a car and a boat. The tour guide was seriously a stand up comedian! This guy had everyone rolling! We saw the space needle, the millions of Starbucks, the pier, where the Beatles stayed when they came to America, pikes place, union lake, Fremont park, and many other popular Seattle sights!

Cali got a duck quacker as a tour souvenir!

You tour all around the city and then hop into union lake. This is the view of the space needle from union lake.

Another duck boat! This is what they look like in the water!

The black boat is a fishing boat from deadliest catch season 2!

Gas works park. I love this idea. A factory burnt down in 1960 and left it's remains. Because the city thought it looked like a playground, they actually turned it into a playground!

Some awesome houses on lake union. We even saw the house from sleepless in Seattle!

My new boyfriend Captian Flip!

The lucky duck boaters getting ready for the fun!

Don't ask! jk Our captain wanted all us of to join him in a rousing rendition of hooked on a feeling. This performance took place on the busy streets of Seattle! All of us had props, meat cleavers, bones etc. to add to the show! It was hilarious!

I was an awesome tour of the city! I will definitely do it again!

Next we were off to the Space Needle!

It only takes a few seconds to get to the top! It's amazing to see all of beautiful Seattle from so high!

Cali was so excited! She is so fun!

The view from the top!

Back on the ground!

Next we head to Ivars for some yummy seafood on the pier. There is nothing like this fish and clam chowder. We also got to feed some french fries to the seagulls flying by!

Next up the amazing Seattle Aquarium!

We visited the aquarium as a family when I was about 8. As a kid I remember it being so amazing. As an adult it was even more amazing. You just can't see this stuff in Utah.