Road Trip to Seattle and San Fran

Where to start? Well first of all sorry that this post is so late but I still want to post it on the blog because we had so much fun! Thing have been crazy since we moved here to Salt Lake. There has been a lot of things to get done. For some reason I thought that things would slow down once I graduated but that never happened. I will explain that more later. Now I will tell you about our trip. I have been telling my best friend Kellie since she moved to Seattle that I would come and visit her and I finally made it. We were going to take a trip to New York but that will have to wait until we have a little more money. It was so great to see Kellie and what it is like in Seattle. It seems like such a cute place to live and there is a lot to do. If you know us we tried to fit in all in one day so we could see as much as possible. 

Here is a great picture right before the ferry ride that we took to a cute little island. As you can see in the picture it was a windy but very pretty day. I was happy that it didn't rain on us. 

This is Spencer trying to throw me in the fountain but I was successful in not getting wet. He thought that he was being so funny because I just wanted a cute picture so I wasn't even expecting it.

We got in a little shopping before we went to Kellie's favorite Mexican restaurant. It tasted really good after a long day of walking around to see the whole city.

These were probably our favorite two things that we ended up doing. Here is the public market there was a cheese festival going on and we love cheese. We were able to try a lot of new types of cheese by just fighting our way through the people. Lets say there was a lot of gross ones but also some good ones. It worked out perfect that we were there on the right weekend.

Then there was post alley. This is where you can find the famous gum wall. We all decided to make our addition with Kellie's gum in her magical purse that can hold everything. There was so much gum and you can see gum forever! I thought it was a neat idea, whoever thought of it was a genius. We will for sure go here next time we are in Seattle.

The last thing that we did was stop to see the Fremont Troll. It is under a bridge and is the most random thing ever. It was just something you have to go and see so you can say that you did it. 

 Thanks Kell for showing us around! Let's just focus on this part of the trip and not the last couple of hours. We will have to come again soon. Then we left that same night to try and get to Cali. We spent a lot of time driving those first two days but that is what you do when you are young and crazy. We drove through the Red wood Forest and some of the trees were bigger than our car. They were so big and they looked fake at times but I don't think you could make a tree that big even if you wanted to. We made some fun stops along the way and took some funny pictures. 

Our first stop in San Fran was seeing the sea lions. There were so many that were all just sitting there. Some of them were even playing king of the hill. It was funny to watch. I think we could have stayed there all day and I would have been happy. 

Then we went to China Town and that was probably the scariest thing of the whole trip. I felt like I was in China for real there were so many people going so many directions. I don't ever want to go back there again. We got lost trying to find our way back but we had some good laughs along the way. We are really good at pretending like we know what we are doing.

We got back just in time to go on our tour of Alcatraz. If you break the rules in prison then you got send here. It was impossible to escape and if they did escape they didn't have anywhere to go. That didn't stop them from trying. There was a lot of interesting stories of what happened for the few years that it was open. I don't know what makes someone become that angry that makes them only want to do evil but I am grateful that we have places for them to go when it does happen.

The next day we went and saw all the normal tourist sights like the curvy road, the houses that looked like they were from Full House (one of my favorite shows), ate sourdough pizza, rode the cable cars, ran into some Germans, and finally went on a tour at the Giants Baseball field. I learned a lot about baseball and also spend some time being confused about what they were saying. I just sat there and nodded like Joey does on Friends when he has no idea what is going on. Good thing I have Brian and Spencer to explain things to me afterwards.

On our way back to Utah we stopped at a way sweet hotel! This was the view out our window and it was so peaceful after being in the big city for so long. There were even little birds that had just been born. I love being in the nature but still having a bed to sleep on. It was perfect! Thanks Heidi and Brian for putting everything together for us. The trip turned out a little different than planned with a few unplanned events but we just worked through them together. We had a great time and look forward to our next road trip. Does the mall of America sound good to you guys??