Fitz Family: Washington Trip Part 1

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Washington Trip Part 1

Warning: Lots of pictures to come (so many I decided to break them up into two posts)!

We headed up to Washington State for the first week of August for a mini Shoemaker reunion. We had a great time and enjoyed catching up with my grandparents, aunt, uncle, cousins and their families.

Papa with Bailey and Addy--
they were so excited to see each other (Papa included)!!

Thomas and Matt were bonding as well. :)

Papa and his granddaughters

We headed to Point Defiance Park in Tacoma for a picnic lunch, to visit the zoo and aquarium, and to check out the water.

Lunchtime!

Bailey, Ava, and Addy--sweet cousins

The sharks were awesome!

Matt and Thomas decided to try the Hurricane Tunnel.
We thought their hats would blow off and they would
get knocked over, but nothing really happened
but blowing air. Bummer!

This tiger was asleep until we decided to make some noise!

We normally go here to find crabs under rocks,
but the tide was in. Just beautiful!

My amazing and handsome husband!

Sweet Milly along for the ride.

Instead of looking under rocks, we threw rocks into the water.
We were a little nervous the girls would fall in and the water was cold!

We enjoyed a BBQ dinner back at Aunt Nicki and Uncle Don's house. Yummy food and good company! (So sad we didn't take some family pics that night with our WA family.)

Silly face #1

Silly face #2

Great Gramie and Milly

The next day we took a trip to Seattle, not realizing it would take us 2 hours to get there and 2 1/2 hours to get home (normally it's about an hour trip)!

At the Locks to check out the
Fish Ladder and watch the boats.

We made it to Pike Place Market and it was crazy busy!
We got to show Jenny the flying fish and the original Starbucks.
We had a yummy lunch and bought honey sticks and cherries
at the Market. (And cool drinks from another Starbucks just
down the street.)

We headed back to Gramie and Papa's for dinner and popsicles.