Thanksgiving in Seattle

When we found out that my dad was going to be in Seattle for Thanksgiving we made plans to crash the party and join everyone else too

Wednesday while my sister's kids were in school we headed to the Children's Museum.  I can't even count how many children's museum's we have received FREE admission into because we bought a $25 pass to our local Boise Museum.  It was a well spent $25!

The girls spent a good couple of hours having fun in this museum

Grandma Deb spent lots of time figuring out the right width and length for her headbands so they would fit the girls.  They were excited when she finally figured it out and they got to be twiners

Thanksgiving Day we got to skype GG on the computer.  It was lots of fun!!!

Since it's usually just my sister and her little family on Thanksgiving they have a tradition of going to a restaurant on Alki Beach in Seattle for dinner.  Since we were the guests, we joined them in their tradition and enjoyed all the yummy foods that were offered at this amazing buffet

After dinner we took Derek's nickel tour of Seattle's finest sites

Friday morning we were greeted with a North Pole breakfast and the arrival of our elves from Santa

Allie was in shock that our elf Snowflake made her way to Seattle

We headed to the rec center to swim after our North Pole breakfast

Snow Flake Lane opened up while we were at my sisters.  Snow Flake Lane is a fun little parade that happens every night until Christmas through the streets of downtown Bellevue.  During the parade there are drummers that parade down the side walks playing all sorts of Christmas songs, while fake snow is being made and blown through the streets

We watched the parade from up on one of the sky-bridges

Down on the streets these drummers stood up on big barrels and looked like a drummer boy that had come alive.  I could have stayed out on the street all night soaking in the fake snow and listening to the music.  I love the kick off to Christmas right after Thanksgiving

After being outside we made our way inside the mall to meet some of the princesses.  The snow princess had  to coax Sophie into standing next to her by giving her the wand to hold

Saturday was our last day and we headed into downtown Seattle to enjoy the "tourist sites"

We first made our way to Pike Street Market to watch the flying fish and catch a ride on the famous pig

A new site I have never been to was the gum wall.  We all popped in some gum, chewed it up and found our own place on the wall for our gum.  Really disgusting but kind of cool too

One of our last stops in the city before we hit the road back home was the new ferris wheel out on the pier. The only one from my sister's family that wanted to ride was Miss Ainsley.  We bundled our family and Ainsely into the car and got a beautiful view of the city.  We had a great couple of days in Seattle.  Thanks to the Little's for letting us crash!