Seattle Trip Highlights: WWE Smack Down

For Micah's birthday present this year, we bought him and a friend and I, tickets to WWE Smack Down Wrestling Event that took place yesterday in Seattle. We only bought him this for his birthday, so we could go all out and make it a trip to remember....WWE did not disappoint! It's great having kids that have different interests, and Micah is all alone in his Wrestling Mania...so this trip was perfect for just him....and boy was he was in heaven.
This is the line....yes, the Key Arena is that little red sign way in the distance...and we were not even the end of the line...
Inside we discovered we had nailed perfect seats...just above the floor, so the boys could see over heads when people stood and situated between the main Show entrance and the ring...so you got all the action, drama, lights and exploding pyrotechnics!
Micah and Chevy saw a ton of their favorite Superstars....this was "Big Show" and needless to say...He's Big...and he kinda looks like me...at least that's what Micah kept quipping.
The Explosions...were deafening...I kept cowering like a little girl...Im not sure Micah was to cool with that....but he kept warning me when he thought there was something that was going to make Dad pee himself.
We had a great view...but the screen captured everything you couldn't see. Over all...an amazing event and trip...one that Micah, Chevy and I, will always remember.

Seattle Trip Highlights: Candy at Pike's St. Market

What's a Pike's St Market trip without going into the bowels of the building...down through corridors of mumbling odd people, dens of middle eastern fortunetellers, exotic wafts of incense and of course...candy stores. (Geek Side Note: Pike's feels like the Mos Eisley Cantina in Starwars...minus the droids.)

Seattle Trip Highlights: Ye' Old Curiosity Shop

If you have never been to the "Ye' Old Curiosity Shop" in Seattle...you must go...especially if you got some young kids. It's an amazing shop with all kinds of old artifacts, oddities and oooooh's & ahhhh's and even a few shrieks...Micah let out a gasp and knee jerk at a clownish figure he bumped into...not to mention this Mummy.

Viking Helmet

Shrunken Heads

Two Headed Lamb

Seattle Trip Highlights: Wall of Gum

Yes...a whole wall of people's gum...kinda like an Elementary School kid's desk turned inside out.
If you take the stairs down to the alley, right by the pig and the throwing fish market in Pike's Place and hang an immediate right when you come to the bottom of the stairs, you will walk right by it.
Of, course I had to check it out...what else am I going to do with two 10 year old boys?

Pikes Street Market

You can't go to Seattle and not go to the Pike's Street Market. We do every time we go, especially to pick up Moon Valley natural products, as well as shop for unique stuff, good produce and food and people watch.This is one example of some urban tribalism...he sold fruit and nuts...no connection I'm sure, he seemed like a fine fellow, who wouldn't eat us.
Some of the delicious bounty of the Pacific Northwest....I simply wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
There was a Cheese Festival going on at the market...lots of people, cheese and im sure...lactose intolerance going on.
One of the common sites in Seattle...musicians playing music...you got to love it. This trip, Lee bummed some change off a street musician when we were trying to get change for a meter...that woman could talk Donald Trump out of his toupee!

WoodMark Hotel & Yacht Club...

LeeElla and I like to stay at this hotel in Kirkland on Lake Washington, just over the lake from Seattle. This weekend when we arrived to enjoy some time away together, we discovered that they upgraded us for no known reasons to the Lakeside suite...a very expensive but free to us, upgrade. It was kind of funny, a couple of urban church planting nobodies, mingling with the yacht dwelling, hobknobers.
The view was amazing, the amenities were plush, and the weather was heavenly all weekend.
It was an amazing blessing that we enjoyed, and felt it was straight from the Lord. We both were extremely ready for a break, and as usual, in light of all the craziness in this world, our Father spoiled us. He is good.