Seattle (Part 1)

This time last week, Brian and I were in Seattle! It was the most fun we'd had in a long time and I constantly turned and whispered to Brian, "Can we move here?" Since trying to put our adventures into a post, I've discovered it will actually take about three parts to do it justice. So here's part 1!

Thursday morning we had to get to the airport at 5am so we were not exactly happy campers. We live on the opposite side of Atlanta from the Airport, so we had to leave the apartment at 3:45am. It was rough. 

But after a 6 hour flight, thanks to the beauty of time zones, we actually landed in Seattle at 9:45 in the morning! My brother Matlock picked us up from the airport, took us home to output suitcases down and pick up his husband Nate. We went to brunch at Ray's Boathouse, which had a wrap-around fire of the harbor 😍. Our waiter was VERY weird and we had a good time laughing at him throughout our meal. 

After brunch we visited the locks, where ships transfer to and from the freshwater and saltwater. It was impressive and interesting but I made the poor decision to use SnapChat to document it, and forgot to save the pictures to my phone. I am a dummy. But a seagull pooped on Brian and I will always save that memory. 

Then we came back to the house to play with their puppy Mickey for a while. He's about eight months old and the cutest thing you ever did see. He's also a very effective alarm clock every morning around 5:30am. 

He's so fluffy I'm gonna die. 

Then we went to  the Starbucks Roastery Reserve which was reeeeally cool. If you're a Starbucks fan, this place should definitely be on your bucket list. It looked like Willy Wonka's factory. You could see the beans being roasted and packaged. They also had hundreds of tastings for you to choose from. We chose one tasting style where they prep a few different coffees in a siphon style, and another tasting in which they prepped one style of bean in three different methods. It all tasted exactly the same to me, but Brian and Matlock and Nathan were able to pick out their favorites. 

After coffee we walked to Elysian Brewery for dinner, where we ordered about six different appetizers and you can order tiny half-size beers so we got several varieties and shared them all. Then it started pouring, so we ran back to the car, went back home, snuggled with the crazy puppy Mickey, and played SongPop Party Music Quiz which was very entertaining and frustrating and competitive. 

And that was only day one of our vacation! I'll write more throughout the week, deviating from my typical schedule of weekly post themes. For now, I'm still dreaming of another vacation to Washington state!