We are back!!! Of course it was Awsome, but nothing compares to the first time. Welcome home to the Florida heat. It was a cold 42 degrees in Seattle. The kids had a GREAT time! Seth was just about perfect, Ashlyn had her moments..... atleast 2 tantrums a day, but that's just her. She would have been the exact same at home. Of couse we started off this morning with one. Anyway, I'm going to post this trip a little at a time since there is so much to say and sooo many pics. It would take me too long to do it all at once. We had 13 total with us on this trip. Our very good friends Cheri and Mike (we took this trip with them last time), there 3 kids, Ryan, Chloe and Holly. Cheri's parents, Herb and Muriel, and Mike's parents Jim and Diane. Our cruise left from Seattle and visited, Juneau, Hubbard Glacier, Sitka, Kethcikan and Victoria, BC. My favorite stops this time were Sitka and Victoria (even though we didn't have much time there).
We started off with a two night stay in Seattle. I LOVE Seattle. This is a place I could definitely live. The flowers are unbelieveable and my little flower child couldn't keep her hands off as you will see in the pictures from here and throughout our trip for that matter. She actually picked one right in front of the Space Needle. I thought we were going to get arrested. Here we visited Pikes Market, took a Duck Tour (absolute blast), the Seattle Aquarium, Seattle Center Kids Museum and the Space Needle.
Here are some pictures of us having dinner ath T.S. McHugh's Irish Pub.
Doesn't daddy looked thrilled....... long airplane ride!Cheesing it up for the camera
Here is Ashlyn showing off her pick in front of the space needle and some other random tulip gardens we passed in our journeys. Flowers are everywhere!! Like I said before there are flowers everywhere. They are beautiful. There's flower trees, bushes, beds and planters everywhere.
Here's some pictures from Pikes Market. Again, flowers everywhere. You could get a huge bundle of Tulips for like $10. Ashlyn was absolutely terrified of this fish. She started screaming when Jason put the stroller anywhere near it. And to make matters worse the guys had tied a string to it through the ice and could scare the s*#@ outta of people by making it move.
Here we are at the space needle. 
Pictures from up top.
We took a Duck tour (it's a boat on wheels or a car shaped like a boat that goes on land and then drives right into the water) through the Seattle down town. We saw pioneer Square, Seattle Waterfront, Seaco Field and took a ride into Lake Union. We had an absolute blast. Of course our driver had everything to do with it. On the tour we learned that they're are like 400+ Starbucks' in Seattle. How much coffee could one need???? In Lake Union we saw these teeny tiny houseboats that cost a small fortune. 300sq ft for like $400K. The Sleepless in Seattle houseboat is currently up for sale for $2.5 million. This particular house is 2075 square feet. We also saw some head guru of Microsofts 3 story houseboat which I would say it was more like a house. Anyway it originally had a cement basement in it but he had the whole thing raised and had the basement glassed in so he could have an underwater view. Most of the houseboats that have basements have I guess normal basements but then there are some with cement. To me the whole idea is crazy. They call them houseboats because they fit in your standard boat slip.
The Duck
Daddy and Seth hanging out on the tour
Pictures from up top. We took a Duck tour (it's a boat on wheels or a car shaped like a boat that goes on land and then drives right into the water) through the Seattle down town. We saw pioneer Square, Seattle Waterfront, Seaco Field and took a ride into Lake Union. We had an absolute blast. Of course our driver had everything to do with it. On the tour we learned that they're are like 400+ Starbucks' in Seattle. How much coffee could one need???? In Lake Union we saw these teeny tiny houseboats that cost a small fortune. 300sq ft for like $400K. The Sleepless in Seattle houseboat is currently up for sale for $2.5 million. This particular house is 2075 square feet. We also saw some head guru of Microsofts 3 story houseboat which I would say it was more like a house. Anyway it originally had a cement basement in it but he had the whole thing raised and had the basement glassed in so he could have an underwater view. Most of the houseboats that have basements have I guess normal basements but then there are some with cement. To me the whole idea is crazy. They call them houseboats because they fit in your standard boat slip.
The Duck
Daddy and Seth hanging out on the tourA lot of the boats from "Deadliest Catch" come out of Seattle. Here is one. 
The driver called this fountain the hippee shower. He said the bums showered here.
Here is the Sleepless in Seattle houseboat
The little tiny green one on the right just sold for like $375K.
These are the bigger ones with concrete basements and all.
More flowers hanging all the walls all down the street
The driver called this fountain the hippee shower. He said the bums showered here. Here is the Sleepless in Seattle houseboatThe little tiny green one on the right just sold for like $375K.These are the bigger ones with concrete basements and all.More flowers hanging all the walls all down the street We took a very quick visit to the Seattle Aquarium. Here daddy is trying to convince the kids to pet the starfish in the picture below. They were not interested at all.
The kids playing in the arms of the octopus in the kids area.
Ashlyn goofing around in the gift shop.
Ashlyn goofing around in the gift shop. Pictures from the Seattle Center Children's Museum. This one is Ryan and Ashlyn
Ashlyn acting like a lizard 
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At last, today I was able to see your posts. Looks likle you had fab time, wish we could have gone too!!
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