Epic Road Trip of Awesome: Seattle

This weekend we took advantage of our proximity to so many great towns and cities (and exciting events - more to come on that) and traversed the Northwest in a rented Yaris. Amazing things were seen, delicious meals were eaten and of course, many, many photos were taken. First stop - Seattle.

We actually planned this weekend away from home a few months ago, but the Seattle leg of the trip wasn't added on until last week. Hoorah for extra spontaneous holidays! We were watching the Seattle Mariners' first game of the season at a bar last week, and Paul realised that since we were going to be on the road anyway, we could leave a day earlier and be there for Opening Night at their home field in Seattle on Friday. And why not?

We arrived to a gloriously warm Spring afternoon, and headed to Paul's old stomping grounds to do some sight seeing and search for squirrels (of which no further mention will be made as there were no damn squirrels ANYWHERE - a conspiracy is afoot, I tell you!).

 Greenlake

 Cherry blossoms at the University of Washington

The world's tastiest vegie nachos at Pike Place Brewery

After delicious nachos and refreshing locally brewed beer, it was time to head to the ball game. 

 As it was Opening Night, there was much flag-waving, award-giving, anthem-singing and firework-exploding.

Some men in outfits threw and hit things

Don't mind if I do!

 I was excited to hear that Safeco Field has vegie dogs - unfortunately they are served by unhelpful wenches on dry and uninspiring gluten free buns, so it wasn't quite the success I was hoping for.

The legendary Safeco garlic fries did make up for it though. 

Sadly, the Mariners couldn't quite overcome the fact that despite winning the first two games of the season, they still suck. We decided to call it quits after the 8th inning when Paul just couldn't suffer the anguish any longer, and headed to B&O Espresso in Capitol Hill for dessert. By this stage in the evening, my camera batteries had died so I have no evidence of dessert, but I seem to recall that I enjoyed some kind of earl grey steamed tea and a slice of lemon cream pie. Now, if only the Mariners were as good at baseball as I am at eating!