Before I moved to Seattle over 20 years ago now, I used to live in Vancouver Canada and we would often come to visit Seattle on shopping trips. Most of these adventures took us to downtown Seattle or Northgate or to eat at the Fisherman’s restaurant on the Waterfront. But I didn’t really get to […]
Read MoreWe’re always passing through Pioneer Square in Seattle, for school, for soccer games, for events at the stadiums so I really appreciated that the Pioneer Square Association invited my family to learn more about the area with a stop at Zeitgeist Coffee: a long-running coffee shop in the area, a Beneath the Streets tour and […]
Read MoreThere were maybe two other people in the Klondike Gold Rush National Park when we visited so we pretty much had the whole place to ourselves. Unlike most National parks, this one in the center of our city is not a traditional outdoor park. This place is more like a visitor center and museum. And […]
Read MoreYou don’t always think that a summer camp might change your life, but in our family we absolutely know it can. My husband and I met years ago when we were camp counselors in college in Canada and it’s one of the reasons why we ended up where we are in Seattle today. But we […]
Read MoreIs it worth it? I always get asked when I go to experiences in Seattle. Seattlelites are very wary about how they use their money and time. And I was a little curious too when I got the invite to Astra Lumina. It’s an immersive outdoor experience in Seattle’s Chinese Garden, a place I had […]
Read MoreWe haven’t yet been to the Christmas Market at Seattle Center and I’m not sure if we’ll get there this year-I’m mostly intrigued because of the Ukrainian Borsch at the European Foods stall. There are also pop-up markets all over the city and they’re exciting but also we only have so much time to see […]
Read MoreI always love the story behind the art in our city and if you go to Calder: In Motion at the Seattle Art Museum this exhibition has a really beautiful connection. This exhibition is part of an ongoing gift from the Shirley family to the Seattle Art Museum and it has a goal of helping […]
Read MoreI’m so glad that Ballard Blocks is hosting its community donation drive for the Ballard Food Bank again and I’m helping to promote this on my instagram this month so I thought I’d share here too in case you want to learn more. My son goes to school in Ballard and this is where we […]
Read MoreMaybe your kids will have a sports game at Ballard High School from Seattle one day too or maybe you just need an excuse to visit Bainbridge Island. It’s so incredibly close to Seattle-only a 30 minute ferry ride and it even has a bridge that attaches it to the mainland so you’re less likely […]
Read MoreNo to a fall bucket list this year-who needs that kind of stress? I just wanted a place to keep notes about some special farms near Seattle we might want to visit this fall. October is such a great season at farms in the Pacific Northwest as they are filled with pumpkins, corn and apples […]
Read More*an update: Sezane is no longer at Uvillage when I went by in April, but hopefully it will show up somewhere in our city again soon.* The other day I had an invite to Sezane, a new store that has popped up in Uvillage which is also one my favorite places to shop in Seattle. […]
Read MoreWe finally made it to Seabrook this year and ended up making it a multigenerational trip this time just like we dreamed about when we first started visiting. My mom, dad, sister and her family rented a house, and our family rented a house and it was a great way to hang out with each […]
Read MoreDo you ever wonder about the story behind the art you see? I’ve been following along as a new mural at Grand Ridge Plaza was created. I was so curious to meet Tori Shao, the artist who was commissioned to paint the stairway behind Dick’s Sporting Goods and learn the story behind her new art […]
Read MoreHere’s a list to add to the stack of all the other lists that exist about this city but I heard someone (a Seattleite even!) say Pike’s Place market again recently and I couldn’t just write a post about that without sounding too angry Seattle so I thought I better write this post instead. So […]
Read MoreMy family seems to have entered an architectural era of travel where we purposely visit towers and buildings like the Space Needle the CN tower, or maybe the Rookery in Chicago to check out the views of a city, and even in our own city, and learn a bit about the history of a place. […]
Read MoreIt is pretty difficult to find soufflé pancakes in Seattle and we’ve searched the area a lot. We went to Japan in 2019 and managed to get some that were pretty spectacular. (I think we’ve all seen soufflé pancakes on TikTok’s from Japan) When I was doing quarantine in my parent’s basement in Vancouver during […]
Read MoreThis is a sponsored post for Genuine Skagit Valley to highlight their Farmstand Fresh Campaign-they have a Skagit Valley Farm Stand tour posted on their website too and we visited in late July 2023 for this farm stand tour. My family knows that if there is a farm stand on any drive we do, I […]
Read MoreMy kids are at the age where they’re barely considered kids anymore. At 15 years old, they definitely do not order off the kids’ menu and they no longer need to immediately stop for playgrounds when we pass them on our travels. But old habits die hard and I can’t help myself-I keep an eye […]
Read MoreThe Seattle Waterfront Shuttle is back. Here is the shuttle route for 2023 and it runs 7 days a week from 10am-8pm and approximately every 20 minutes. The shuttle season will run from July 17th 2023 to September 24 2023 and each shuttle has about 20 seats and are ADA accessible. There are two shuttle […]
Read MoreIt’s summertime in Seattle which means a whole different feel to the city than we have from November through May. Summer is one of the best times to be in Seattle and there are a million things to do in Seattle in July. This is when we experience some of our best weather-often seemingly endless […]
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