I had 5 days off to spend in Seattle with my bestest friend in the world, Miss Heather Cooper ( Soon to be Mrs. Wade). Of course we took on Seattle like we have done with every other town we've ever traveled to, but this time, Coop has lived here for over a year and knows the lay of the land. So immediately after I arrived, she took me to her favorite lookout spot in Seattle, Kerry Park. Some nice professional photographer used my camera to take a picture of the two of us. He was showing me all the cool settings on my camera and how to properly use it, and only seconds after he handed it back to me, i proceeded to drop ( well actually spike) my camera on the cement. Have no fear, the picture still came out just fine. Probably my favorite of the Adventures of Britt and Coop Photo Album.
The next day we got got up and tried to live the lives of Grey's Anatomy and took a ferry to Bainbridge Island. We ate at cafe Nola, recommended by Giada DeLaurentis (we're huge fans of food network,...and food) and window shopped around the cutest northwest coast island town. Oh, and we got coffee of course. That night Mike (Cooper's MIke) took us out to a great dinner at a Spanish/Italian restaurant called Tidbit, had great food and great wine.
The next morning we took advantage of the great outdoors and drove out of the city and hit up the back country. We hiked half way up Mount Si. we had every intention of climbing he whole thing but by the time we got to the snow line we were falling all over the place. It was funny but then we considered the trip back down the snow covered trail and decided to do the responsible thing and carefully climb back down. The weather held up nicely for us, no rain or snow for that matter. We then headed to Snoqualamie Falls, appearantly they are taller than Niagra falls. We walked down to the viewing point, which was leisurely, but the walk/climb back up was a bitch. By that time my muscles had realized this was more activity than they were used to. I made it but was more pooped than i deserved to be. A girl wearing heals was walking down the same path, come on!
Mike and Cooper had some friends over to their new condo and we BBQed burgers and veggies and played speed scrabble. awesome. They were some really great guys and Im so glad they have good friends in Seattle. Most of them worked for Boeing, so I reminded them that there's a Boeing office in Chicago and they should transfer there so they could be my cool friends too.
Sunday morning we went to Cooper and Mike's pre-marital class. (Well, first actually we headed to the Chai house, a whole shop devoted to Chai tea, i'm in love). So at the class I thought it would be weird, literally a third wheel but it was actually a big lecture rather than one on one teaching, so they didn't even notice I wasn't engaged, or had a guy with me, or that I wasn't the only single person in the room. I swear it wasn't weird or depressing, it was actually very informative.
After church we went to the Freemont market, a really artsy street fair. However the only thing I bought was chocolate, Chai tea flavored chocolate, i was following a theme. The picture of us in the hands of what look like Lord Voldermort, it actually the Freemont Troll built under one of the cities bridge. Going with the artsy theme of Freemont, a local artist built it with a real VW beattle in his hands. Cool, but pretty creepy at the same time. If i didn't know it was there and I happened to be going for a walk at night and came across it... well lets just say, I might need a fresh set of drawers : o
It was a lovely trip, Seattle is beautiful. Its totally surrounded by water AND mountains. The Cherry Trees were in bloom while we were there, Cooper took me to the University of Washington (where she works and goes to grad school) to see the campus with the trees that only bloom for a few weeks a year, and we got to experience it. It was a gorgeous backdrop for another photo to add to the Adventures of Cooper and Britt Photo Album.
I had 5 days off to spend in Seattle with my bestest friend in the world, Miss Heather Cooper ( Soon to be Mrs. Wade). Of course we took on Seattle like we have done with every other town we've ever traveled to, but this time, Coop has lived here for over a year and knows the lay of the land. So immediately after I arrived, she took me to her favorite lookout spot in Seattle, Kerry Park. Some nice professional photographer used my camera to take a picture of the two of us. He was showing me all the cool settings on my camera and how to properly use it, and only seconds after he handed it back to me, i proceeded to drop ( well actually spike) my camera on the cement. Have no fear, the picture still came out just fine. Probably my favorite of the Adventures of Britt and Coop Photo Album. 
The next day we got got up and tried to live the lives of Grey's Anatomy and took a ferry to Bainbridge Island. We ate at cafe Nola, recommended by Giada DeLaurentis (we're huge fans of food network,...and food) and window shopped around the cutest northwest coast island town. Oh, and we got coffee of course. That night Mike (Cooper's MIke) took us out to a great dinner at a Spanish/Italian restaurant called Tidbit, had great food and great wine. 
The next morning we took advantage of the great outdoors and drove out of the city and hit up the back country. We hiked half way up Mount Si. we had every intention of climbing he whole thing but by the time we got to the snow line we were falling all over the place. It was funny but then we considered the trip back down the snow covered trail and decided to do the responsible thing and carefully climb back down. The weather held up nicely for us, no rain or snow for that matter. We then headed to Snoqualamie Falls, appearantly they are taller than Niagra falls. We walked down to the viewing point, which was leisurely, but the walk/climb back up was a bitch. By that time my muscles had realized this was more activity than they were used to. I made it but was more pooped than i deserved to be. A girl wearing heals was walking down the same path, come on! 
Mike and Cooper had some friends over to their new condo and we BBQed burgers and veggies and played speed scrabble. awesome. They were some really great guys and Im so glad they have good friends in Seattle. Most of them worked for Boeing, so I reminded them that there's a Boeing office in Chicago and they should transfer there so they could be my cool friends too.
Sunday morning we went to Cooper and Mike's pre-marital class. (Well, first actually we headed to the Chai house, a whole shop devoted to Chai tea, i'm in love). So at the class I thought it would be weird, literally a third wheel but it was actually a big lecture rather than one on one teaching, so they didn't even notice I wasn't engaged, or had a guy with me, or that I wasn't the only single person in the room. I swear it wasn't weird or depressing, it was actually very informative.
After church we went to the Freemont market, a really artsy street fair. However the only thing I bought was chocolate, Chai tea flavored chocolate, i was following a theme. The picture of us in the hands of what look like Lord Voldermort, it actually the Freemont Troll built under one of the cities bridge. Going with the artsy theme of Freemont, a local artist built it with a real VW beattle in his hands. Cool, but pretty creepy at the same time. If i didn't know it was there and I happened to be going for a walk at night and came across it... well lets just say, I might need a fresh set of drawers : o
It was a lovely trip, Seattle is beautiful. Its totally surrounded by water AND mountains. The Cherry Trees were in bloom while we were there, Cooper took me to the University of Washington (where she works and goes to grad school) to see the campus with the trees that only bloom for a few weeks a year, and we got to experience it. It was a gorgeous backdrop for another photo to add to the Adventures of Cooper and Britt Photo Album.
Mary Beth turned 27 a couple of weeks ago and we went to Lincoln Tap Room again, the perfect place to have a birthday on a monday night. They gave us drink specials and we pretty much had the place to ourselves. A couple of my friends from class came too, we had just had our first show at Second City earlier in the night. 
We had the whole place to ourselves, but we spent most of the night in one area: the photobooth, taking pictures in the booth and around the booth. Ed, my friend from class, had surprisingly never been in a photobooth before. So we had fun taking fake headshots and silly faces.
Oh, the kids are growing up. Little Lauren Sanborn is getting married in May. I took the amtrack (for $16) to St. Louis, where my family picked me up, we then drove to Bourbon to spend the night with the other Sanborns. I love my family, they are so much fun; they had drinks waiting for us when we got there. Considering, I had not really slept in over 24 hours, I was feeling fine in no time. Kaylen and Lauren's grandparents, The Stuckys, were also there. We ended up having 10 people sleep in their house, and our gracious hosts didn't flinch Aunt Donna and Uncle Blake are wonderful people, and I'm bummed that I unfortunately have no pictures of them on this blog, but no worries, come wedding day, there will be plenty. Then we headed to Rolla, MO for a couples wedding shower. The Aunts (my mother and Aunt Dana) were throwing it, so they spent the next day cooking deliciousness while the rest of us just pooped around. A lovely Saturday if you ask me. I did manage to go for a walk around Anthony's Mill and the lake somewhere in between naps.
3. After the show on Tuesday, after the first round of 'going out times' at iO, I met up with Mary Beth at Corcorans, then went back to Second City in the middle of the night to check on the kids painting the mainstage theatre. We walked in on sexy poses by the men and Megan Powers hopped on 1 liter of Jolt cola, the kid was trippin'! I miss those peeps. Oh what fun.
4. Thats right, a fourth addition, breaking the tradition. I worked 12 hours of overtime this week, and I regret nothing. I have really started to enjoy work and the people I work with and the things i do. I mean come on, I work with babies and mommies. Most of the time its wonderful, and the rest of the time i ts great material for a sketch later. And besides, my paycheck is going to be fat this week. Woohoo, sign me up for another 12 hours.
1. I went with Mary Beth and her dad to a tattoo parlor and the only one that got a tattoo was Mary Beth's dad. He has wanted one for twenty years. Its of a zipper over his appendix scar. There is a bet waged as to when his wife will find out he has a tattoo. 
