Weekend in Seattle

For my birthday this year Mike got tickets to go and see Jerry Seinfeld LIVE up in Seattle. When we bought the tickets we only planned on going to dinner and the show. We were thrilled to find out a couple of weeks ago that my parents were going to come up and visit. They were so great to watch the kids so that Mike and I could stay the night in the city. This was the first time we have stayed up in Seattle together. We stayed at the Westin Hotel right in the middle of everything we needed. We were only a couple of blocks away from shopping, good restaurants, Pike's Place, and the Paramount Theatre. Of course we spent a couple of hours shopping and just looking around. For dinner we ate at this neat cafe style restaurant called The Palace Kitchen. Mike had the trout and I had the chicken and potatoes. The food was outstanding and far exceeded my expectations. Anyone who knows me well knows that I LOVE dessert - especially anything with chocolate. Their dessert menu looked ok, but we both had one dessert in mind. We left the restaurant with happy bellies and walked over to Morton's Steakhouse for their chocolate lava cake. IT WAS SO WORTH IT! It's the little things in life that put a smile on my face...chocolate and good company is one of them. Now completely satisfied, we headed back to do some more shopping and then some relaxing back at the hotel before the show.

We went to the 9:30pm show and it was SO AWESOME. Even sitting close to the back we still felt like we could see everything. The Paramount Theatre is such a beautiful place. The ceiling was so fascinating to look at. Larry Miller opened for Jerry and he was pretty funny. We were so shocked that Seinfeld was on stage for a good hour and a half. He is probably one of the funniest people I have ever heard. We would go back to see another one of his shows FOR SURE!

I had the absolute best birthday ever. We even got to sleep in until 9 in the morning!!! YIPEE!! We got on our running clothes and ran over to Pike's Place to eat crepes. We walked around the market for awhile and then headed back over to our hotel to get ready for the day. We shopped some more and then ate lunch at the Nordstrom Cafe. We haven't eaten there since living on the East Coast. Our turkey club panini and blue cheese vinegarette salad were scrumptious. We finally headed over to the Space Needle to meet my parents and the kids so we could head north to Deception Pass and the Tulip Festival. It was the perfect start to our weekend!