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.
