Sunday, August 24, 2008

Bainbridge Island & Seattle

We had a beautiful Saturday full of gorgeous sunshine and new adventures for us. Jon had a company picnic over on Bainbridge Island. After buying an enormous amount of food for everyone at Costco Friday night we adventured onto Jon's first Ferry ride Saturday morning to the island. The house was only about a 10 minute walk from the ferry, we could hear the ferry's horn throughout the afternoon while we ate. It was wonderful to meet everyone Jon works with and the rest of their families. They are a very interesting mix of British, Midwest and East coast natives. Only a handful of people were actually born and raised in the Seattle area. It was a nice time playing employee trivia and watching a highly entertaining with a baby's crawling race. (Cody - Lily START YOUR ENGINES) As the afternoon carried on we took the ferry back to Seattle but didn't want to leave the gorgeous weather. We decided to park the car and walk around Pike Place Market and then carried on around downtown Seattle into the night enjoying the warm weather and cool breezes off the water. We ended up stopping for some Italian to top the evening off. Overall it turned out to be a wonderful relaxing Saturday.

Full set of pictures here


B&W of the market sign

Fish goes away...

Fish comes back!

Pikes Place Market

Lookin' pretty

Who stole my comb and razor?

Some pretty houses on the Bainbridge shoreline

Seattle from afar

Crazy seagulls following the ferry

Big cranes...bigger mountain

Stadiums and Mt. Rainier


Qwest and SafeCo stadiums from the ferry

Looking back on the Seattle skyline

Enjoying the ferry ride

What are you looking at??

Oh yeah the baby race!!

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