The Kruger Family: seattle

Shaun and I were able to take a quick trip up to Seattle to visit Tom, Chelsea and Jake. It was a lot of fun. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Seattle (to visit that is :) ) and so anytime we get to go is awesome. We flew up on Friday the 14th of October (the day after I ended my second term of school.. Another 4.0!!) and spent sometime exploring Downtown Seattle and then took the ferry over to Bremerton where we met up with Tom, Chelsea, Kim and Michelle (they were up in Seattle because Michelle had a class she was taking) and had a yummy dinner at Anthony's. We spent the rest of the evening hanging watching Big Bang Theory (we LOVE this show now! Thanks Tom and Chelsea!)

The next day we headed to Point No Point to check out the lighthouse there and then we headed to do some shopping. We hit up Central Market (it is a pretty cool supermarket with tons of different ethic foods and an awesome bulk section) and a few other store to get things for a BBQ we had that night.

Sunday we went to church and then Tom, Jake, Kim, Shaun and I went exploring at on of the local parks in Port Orchard. It was TONS of fun. It felt like there we had left the city and had headed to the mountains. It was AWESOME! I would love to have parks like that around here.

Then Monday we headed home so I could start my third term of school! It really was a fun trip. I can't wait until we go again!

Picture time:

Shaun and Jake cuddling

Jake was excited to be in the car going somewhere

The Point No Point Lighthouse

Us At Point No Point

Us in front of the lighthouse

Group Shoot in Front of the Point No Point Lighthouse

Shaun, Tom, Kim and Jake at the park

Tom & Jake in front of a giant tree that had fallen over

Us in front of the same fallen tree

This year for Thanksgiving, Shaun and I traveled to Port Orchard, Washington to spend time with his brother and sister in law, Tom and Chelsea. It was a lot of fun to be able to get out of town for a few days and to get to spend some time with them. It is about a fifteen hour drive to get up there and Shaun and I decided to just do it in one day. This won't be happening again.. It is definitely a two day drive for me. Driving was all we did on Wednesday.

Thursday was turkey day! We spent the morning getting ready to for dinner. It was fun to be able to bring a little bit of everyone traditions to one meal. There was a total of 10 of us for dinner. Tom, Chelsea, Kim (Dad), Michelle (Mom), Tamara (Aunt), Wally (Uncle), Christine (cousin), Daniel (cousin) and then Shaun and I (Everyone is in the picture to the left, except Tom, who took the picture-Thanks for the picture!). Shaun's parents had traveled up to Port Orchard the weekend before and had spent sometime with Tom and Chelsea earlier in the week. The rest of the gang already lives up in the Seattle area. Anyhow... It was a really nice dinner. We had tons of food and it was just fun to get to spend some time with Shaun's family, especially the members that live so far away.

Friday Shaun and I decide to venture to the other side of the of Puget Sound (aka Downtown Seattle). We took a ferry from Bremerton to Seattle and spent a few hours wondering around. It was a lot of fun. We went to Pioneer Square, Pike's Market and we walked along the pier. We had SUPER yummy calm chowder in a sour dough bread bowl for lunch from Pike's Place Chowder at Pike's Market! It was seriously so good. My mouth is watering just thinking about it.

I have a thing with hoodies. Pretty much everywhere I go I have to get a new hoodie. It is just what I do and this trip I was going to get one since I didn't have a chance the last time we were in Seattle for his cousin's wedding. The one I ended up getting has a skull on the front of it and says "To error is human. To Arrrrrr is pirate." and then of course it said Seattle on it under the saying I thought it was way cute.

That night when we got back to the other side Shaun and I met Tom and Chelsea and we went to The Boat Shed for dinner. They have some REALLY yummy food and a great view of the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (which is where Tom works). Then we headed home to play some Rock Band and watch some movies. It was a fun day.

Saturday we spent the day with Tom and Chelsea. We went to Poulsbo, which is a REALLY cute little town that has a bunch of little shop to explore and they also Central Market, which is a VERY large grocery store with all types of cool food. After we were down there, we headed to Silverdale to do some shopping at the mall and then head home for some more Rockband.

Sunday was our long trip home. The best part of the trip home was when we stopped in Pendleton, Oregon on the Indian Reservation and got to pump our own gas! Oh and getting to see all of the pretty scenery in Washington and Oregon was nice too =)

Here are a few more picture from our trip.