The Volovsek Family: Seattle

Ryan and I took a vacation! A real, vacation... our 4th in 15 years together!

We flew out to Washington, along with 2 of our friends and spent 5 days in Seattle!

Neither of us have ever been there before and we had a great time exploring the city!

I have so many photos and really really tried to narrow down which I wanted to share.

Then, I realized, that I don't really care. I love to share my photos, and if someone wants to

see them... great, if not... skim on, or just feel free to skip right over this whole post!
Here we go!

We decided to try a VRBO and stayed in this lovely, charming home! It was so cute and

full of character! Some small oddities here and there, but it all just added to the vibe! It had

a great kitchen with a coffee bar, two lovely patios, and was in the absolute PERFECT location!

Capital hill was awesome, and we were able to walk to most of the places we wanted to see!

This was the view from the rooftop patio! Awesome, right?!

Capital Hill was pretty awesome! So much to do and see and so close to everything we wanted!

If you ever go and stay there, stop and eat HERE. You. Are. Welcome!!! Seriously... I don't even

like Mexican, and we ate there 3 out of 4 days!

We had a delighfully, unexpected, and fun night at this joint! Lets just say we dove right into

the culture of Seattle!! So much fun!! Haha

I made a new friend!

We, of course, hit up the Market! I don't think we saw half of it, but it was so fun!

I was amazed over and over at the Gorgeous bouquets of flowers... all for so cheap! My camera

was highly utilized, just capturing the beauty of them all!!!

I spent a large amount of my time, just soaking up the city! So different from home, and so

fun and full of new sights! I was like a kid in a candy store with my camera... just wandering a little

each day, taking it all in!

We took the ferry to Bainbridge island and the trip over was one of the Highlights for me!

I love the water and couldn't get enough of the beautiful views!

We visited the Starbucks Reserve Roastery and Tasting Room! Wow... that place was impressive!

Plus... coolest bathroom in history. Truth! Check it out if you're there!

We visited Discovery Park and again, I couldn't get enough of the Beautiful views!

We were lucky to have some great weather that day too... so I was happy as a clam!

I really did enjoy checking out a lot of little local places and tried to not be uber "touristy"...

however, I found a list (on Pintrest, no less) that I really wanted to try.

I'm so glad I did, and if you are ever there, please give them a whirl.

http://www.saveur.com/article/Travels/Things-You-Can-Only-Get-in-Seattle?cmpid=pin

1) Monorail Espresso: Burnt Cream Latte. I can't say enough about the yumminess of this beverage!

So decadent, rich, not overly sweet goodness

Perefction!

2) Frans Chocolates: Smoked salt chocolate carmels.

They too were delicious, and surprisingly I liked the milk chocolate better than the dark!

3) Skillet: Bacon Jam

The whole experience at Skillet was fun... although due to slight hangovers, too much caffeine, and rich food none of us are used to eating,
there were moments of various distress... I think I can safely say all of us thoroughly
enjoyed our trip there! The donut holes were maddeningly good, breakfast was fantastic, and our server... he was just icing on the cake!
Steven... you and your pinup boy tattoos will live forever in our hearts!! ;)