Kevin’s parents wanted to take Jameson to the zoo on Saturday. I hadn’t  had a chance to take my mom out and show her the sights, though, so we made other plans. Kevin was exhausted, and just wanted to stay home, so he stayed home to sleep. We all had our plans for the day.

Jameson loved the zoo. Since I wasn’t there, I’ll tell you what I was told. Jameson came running when he saw us, telling us about hippos and lions, and peacocks, and all the other animals he saw. He talked about the zebras and elephants and how they eat hay. Here is the story of their day in pictures…

While they toured the zoo, Mom, Ella, and I headed into Seattle. After a stressful drive trying to find parking on dumb one way streets, and construction on the streets I need to take, we finally made it to the Public Market. Taking the stroller was not the best idea, but strapping Ella to my front didn’t sound so fun either. We found some fun tourist stores, and took some laps around the market.

Kevin’s only request was to bring home some salmon. We stopped in a little Turkish place for lunch, and so I could feed Ella. Who ever said breastfeeding was more convenient obviously never used bottles. Anyway, we all had lunch, and then headed back down to the market. We stopped to get Kevin his fish, and as we were waiting, my mom asked the guy if they had any seasonings for the fish. He looked at us and said, “No problem.” Then he  threw us a lemon and told us it was on the house. Thanks man.

As we walked back to our car, Ella was still fussy, so we stopped in a courtyard to feed her some more. It happened to be the entrance to a hotel. Mom went in to find out what hotel it was out of curiosity, and the lady told us to check out their viewing deck on the 5th floor. So when Ella was done, we headed up. It was a gorgeous view.

I realized I lost Ella’s binki somewhere between the courtyard and the roof. I was a little bummed, because I had to special order those. They are the same one’s she was using in the hospital. As we left, a cute family that was eating ice cream cones in the courtyard asked if the girls at the desk gave us the binki. Someone saw it and had turned it in. I was so excited. Who knew you could get so excited over honest people turning in a binki?

We headed back to the car, and started our journey back across the water. We picked up Kevin and headed to XXX Burger to meet up with Kevin’s parents. They wanted to try the delicious huge burgers. We found a table, and the BYU vs. Kansas game happened to be on. We watched BYU give up the game during our meal. Jameson loved his rootbeer, while Grammy gave some loves to Ella.

After dinner, we headed home to put Jameson to bed. He had a great day with his grandparents and Aunt Brittney at the zoo. After he was in bed, Ella got everyone’s full attention. She loves to cuddle and be held so she was in heaven. We all had a great day and got to enjoy our family time.