4th of July

We had our first visitor this weekend! Jim made his first trip to the west coast and we did our darndest to show him a good time!

We spent Saturday perusing cars and narrowing down our list of convertibles we're interested in. Jim knows his stuff when it comes to cars so it was a lot of fun having him along for the ride. (har har har!!) That evening, Jim got his first taste of Thai food at a nice little place in downtown Bellevue. We finished off the evening watching "In Good Company."

Sunday we were pretty lazy in the morning, but finally got moving and went to visit the 2 wineries in Woodinville (about 20 min away). We had fun tasting different wines and even got to take a tour at the Columbia Winery. It was pretty neat seeing thousands of barrels of wine in the cellars. Afterwards, we went into downtown Seattle and Rode the Ducks! Sounds cheezy, I know, but it was actually really neat! The "duck" is the land/sea vehicle used in WW II. They've converted a lot of them into vehicles used for tours for folks like us. We got to cram in a lot of the sights of Seattle AND got to cruise around in Lake Union and they even pointed out the Sleepless in Seattle houseboat! It was a really neat tour, and I'm glad we did it!

On Monday, we headed back down into the city and staked out our spot for the fireworks at Gas Works Park in the Freemont neighborhood which is right on Lake Union. We were there by 3pm (seriously!) and it was already pretty full of people! Since we didn't want to spend the next 7 hours laying in the sun, we hopped a bus back into the downtown area and showed Jim the famous Pike Place Market. It was pretty close to closing so we didn't spend too much time there. We did make it back to the park with plenty of time and were relieved to see our spot was still in tact. We wound up with a pretty sweet spot and were quite impressed with the fantastic show they put on! I'll have to post some pics of our view sometime soon. :)