Memorial Day Weekend 2009

Last weekend we packed up the car and headed north to visit our good friends Carlanna and Joe. They so graciously opened up their home to us, and the little tornado we brought with us. Lexi all but tore the walls down in their living room, and their poor dogs...I can only imagine the amount of doggie therapy they will need to recover from the weekend.
So, without further ado, here is Memorial Day Weekend 2009: A Photo Essay.

After arriving at Joe & Carlanna's house, we all decided we would spend the day at Northwest Trek, with a stop at the new Sonic in Puyallup on the way. None of us had eaten at Sonic before, but had heard it was THEE fast food restaurant of all fast food restaurants.


Looks pretty awesome right? Don't let it fool you.



There were so many people there, it required a STAGING AREA. We tried bucking the system and just pulled right into a stall, but were promptly chased out by one of the Sonic employees trying (and failing) to control the mass chaos of hungry holiday weekender's, who, like us, were confused as to why a burger place required a staging area. We tried the drive thru also, but again, failed there too. Admitting defeat we joined the other sheep in the staging area line.

And we waited and waited in the staging line. Finally it was our turn for a stall, so we ordered, and waited and waited for our food.


This is Lexi saying, "You idiots know there is a Carl's Jr down the street right? No hour long wait there. Don't worry about me, I'm not sweating or starving or anything. Morons."

Finally get our food, which is mediocre at best. At this point we are kicking ourselves for waiting over an hour for crappy fast food that everyone raves about. We realize we spent so much time there it is too late for Northwest Trek. Oh well. We head to a park instead, and that pretty much wraps up Saturday.



Sunday we head here for Lexi's VERY FIRST MARINER'S GAME EVER!


First stop, Mariner's Team Store to pick up some gear for Lexi. She gets a mini Mariner Moose, which she later decides is creepy and offers to a little girl a few seats down. Also an Ichiro t-shirt to match mama's.


Next stop, the Mariner's Hall of Fame for a photo with the man, the legend, Edgar Martinez. You might say Auntie Carlanna is a fan of his.



Lexi was so good at her VERY FIRST MARINER'S GAME EVER. She sat on my lap and watched the game, and clapped her hands, and didn't even cry when I accidentally spilled a little beer on her while trying to shield her from a rogue fly ball that was caught exactly 2 seats behind us.

Other highlights from the game:
*We got to see a Ken Griffey Jr home run!
*Lexi attempted to steal french fries from the people sitting behind us. Like, literally leaned over my shoulder, and tried to snatch a handful of fries from their basket. No please, no nothing. I swear she can be so rude sometimes. ;)
*The Mariner's won! And the game was only 2.5 hours long, which for us toddler toting folks, was much appreciated.


After the game we headed back to the car and drove to Alki Beach for refreshments and people watching.




Since it was such a gorgeous day out, we had to stop and take some pictures of the city on our way home. We pulled over so Carlanna could run across the street and take these breathtaking shots:



Andy, not wanting to miss out on the photo op, took this great shot of the Space Needle from the front seat:


On Monday, we met our good friend Amy for lunch at Cheesecake Factory and headed home. We had an awesome weekend, thank you so much to Carlanna and Joe for having us!