Nana Visit 2010

Nana came for a visit in July with two long-time girlfriends of hers, and it felt like a vacation for all of us. We did a lot of things we haven't had a chance to do yet since we've been here. The weather was wonderful, about 70 degrees each day, so we are enjoying it while we can! We already miss you Nana!

We went on an Argosy cruise of Lake Washington and saw Bill Gates' house nestled in the hillside much of it underground (all $120 million of it.)


Here's an acre of land on Lake Washington with no house on it going for $19 million if you're interested. Also a pic of downtown Bellevue from the boat.

We picked wild blackberries on the Sammamish River Trail.

Of course we went on a tour of Microsoft led by V, visited the museum and had lunch there.

Went to the Seattle Aquarium. Pretty neat, but has nothing on Dallas' World Aquarium, which was surprising with Seattle being a port city and full of marine life and plenty of people with lots of money to fund it, but it just wasn't as neat as Dallas' indoor rainforest. We did get in free though. :-)

Little S, stubborn as she is, is not in the aquarium photos because she refused to give up her balloon from Salty's to go inside, so she sat outside with V while we went to the aquarium. She didn't seem at all regretful about her decision.

Went to an amazing all-you-can-eat seafood brunch at Salty's of Alki beach. Truly too good for words. We took a water taxi across the Puget Sound to get there, and had a view of downtown Seattle from the other side of the water.

We were able to go on a date for our 10th anniversary while Nana was here in a very cool neighborhood in downtown Seattle called Wallingford.

Chateau Ste Michelle wine tasting for just the ladies while V stayed with the kids.

Fresh sockeye salmon from Pike's market

Snoqualmie Falls, about 20 minutes from our house. We ate lunch at the little lodge at the top of the falls.

Downtown Seattle - coffee at the original Starbucks, bought some salmon from Pikes Place Market