If April showers bring May flowers what might snow showers in April bring? (And let’s hope it’s only sun showers in Seattle from now on) April is such a great time to be in Seattle with all the flowers showing off, baseball season beginning and a little lull in the city just before the first cruise ships of the season start show up. And maybe we’ll get a bit more skiing in if the mountains cooperate.
Here are a few things on my radar for this month and little by little I’ll start to add more:
Spring Tea at Cafe Flora
Is there anything more delightful than afternoon tea? And maybe cherry blossoms. This one is in the first week of April so make sure you get your reservations if you can. There are still cherry blossoms blooming in the UW Quad too. (I’m not sure how long these last.)
Spring Specials at Ethan Stowell Restaurants
On the ESR website there are seasonal specials and BOGO’s offered in April at various restaurants on different days of the week. You can find more information through this link.
Beetlejuice (April 2-7) and Disney’s Aladdin (April 24-28) at the Paramount Theatre
My fifteen year old son and I enjoyed Beetlejuice on opening night for the media night and I’m looking forward to seeing Disney’s Aladdin musical later this month too. You can also check out all the musicals happening for Broadway in Seattle’s upcoming season here.
Seattle Restaurant Week April 14-27
I used to spend so much time looking at the menus for Seattle Restaurant Week trying to get to as many as I could, these days with soccer, we can probably only get to maybe one, so I’m looking forward to seeing what popular restaurants and meals show up in my instagram feed.
Hello Kitty Night at the Mariners night April 30
We have not yet been to a Bark at the Park night, (have you ever been) but there is one in April we might bring Scout to. There is also a Hello Kitty night (it might already be sold out) so you may want to look ahead at the September Hello Kitty Mariners game.
Deep Sky in IMAX April 18th and beyond
One of my guys is so into space we watched this documentary that opens in IMAX at 300 theaters across the USA and it’s excellent. It’s narrated by Michelle Williams and if you followed along with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in 2022 you’ll probably want to see this one too.
PS. have you had robot coffee in Seattle yet?
And a little north of Seattle the Tulip Festival is happening all throughout April too
You can find out all about the Skagit Valley tulip festival here. I was really excited to hear that Tulip Town was letting dogs visit the fields last year. We travel through the area on the way to Vancouver BC all the time so being able to bring Scout makes it so much easier for us to make a visit to see tulips part of our travels.
Upper Left Comedy Fest April 25-27
We went to a comedy show in Montreal last summer and most recently to Trevor Noah but I’ve never been to a comedy festival and we have one coming up in Seattle. Have you been to Upper Left Comedy Fest?
And if you know of more things to do in Seattle in April?
If you know of other events in the city that you think I might want to know about too, feel free to send info my way through my instagram or through my About me page. And yes, there are a ton of events in our city every month but I try to narrow it down to just a few so we don’t all feel too stressed. And if you are looking ahead to next month, here are things to do in Seattle in May.
If you are traveling and thinking of places to go from Seattle, I have some direct flight ideas from Seattle –we just visited a cool resort in Nashville and that has a direct flight from here too.
Terumi Pong is a Seattle-based family travel writer and mom of twin teenage boys. She loves coffee and pastries, shopping local and looking for greener ways to live. She is also known as Scout’s mom (Scout is a 5ish pound little black yorkie-poo)
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