Life in Edmonds

On June 6th, we arrived in Seattle and our new house in Edmonds, WA. We have been busy exploring our new city and have seen lots of neat things. We started off with most of the tourist sites. Jenna was very excited to see the Space Needle so we headed there first. There is a small monorail ride that takes you to the Space Needle so of course we did that! Jenna loved sitting by herself with her bag of popcorn.

Here we are at the top and a few pictures of the view. The observation deck is 520 feet from the ground and a quick 41 second elevator ride!



At the base of the Space Needle is an area called Fun Forest. There are rides and games, like a small version of the boardwalk. Jenna loves the rides, but Miranda is still a little unsure. We have been back there a few times already!



We are about 15 minutes away from a few beaches so we have headed to them on nice days. The girls love looking for rocks and Ian helps them find hermit crabs and other neat things.



Another popular tourist spot is the Pike Place Public Market. There are many vendors selling fresh fruit and vegetables, flower arrangements and fish. The fish market is known for throwing the fish back and forth to each other when someone purchases something. It attracts a large crowd! Can you believe the large flower arrangement I am holding was $10???




Here is Jenna enjoying a fresh Rainier cherry from the market!

One of my favorite places to visit is the zoo so the girls and I went one beautiful morning. Before we left to head to the zoo, Jenna traced and colored a picture of an elephant and she said she wanted to give it to the elephant. You can see her showing it to the elephant in this picture. It was so thoughtful of her!


We also went to the Seattle Aquarium. They just completed renovations and they had some really neat exhibits. Check out this octopus!!!


Miranda must have thought this otter sculpture was really cute because she climbed up, sat down and said "Picture, cheese". It was really cute!

Another must see was the locks. It is really neat to watch the process of moving from one depth of water to another. Check out the difference in these 2 pictures. The first is before going through and the second is after the water level was lowered. Next time we will have to experience it first hand in our boat!


Here is another picture that Miranda requested that I take. She knows what looks cute!

On another nice day, I took the girls to Jetty Island. It is a 2 mile long, man-made island with sandy beaches and shallow warm water and a free ferry ride to get you to and from the island. It was opening day the day we went so there were a few special activites. During the ferry ride over, I noticed a photographer taking Jenna's picture, as she was peering out the ferry window. The photographer then mentioned that she worked for the Everett Herald and that they were featuring an article about "Things to Do" in the summer and that there was a chance Jenna's picture would be used. The next morning Ian called and said that a co-worker of his saw Jenna's picture on the online edition of the paper. We hurried out to look in the print version and to our surprise Jenna was on the front page! Here is the picture!


Just about 2 weeks ago we took Ian there and we took our boat to the island, instead of the ferry. Another fun time!


One of the lakes in Seattle is called Lake Union. We took a Sunday Ice Cream Cruise around Lake Union. It was really neat! We saw many floating houses, even the one that was used in the movie "Sleepless in Seattle". Many sea planes take off and land on Lake Union too. It was very fun and informative too!





I hope you enjoyed seeing all these pictures and reading about what we have been doing. We just got back from our first trip to the San Juan Islands on our boat so I will post pictures from that trip very soon. And one of these days I will take pictures and video of our new house since we are pretty settled. Thanks for reading!!