Day 1 of Vacation

I couldn't stand it any more, so I finally took off from work and picked up my family. Colleen, Gary, and Hannah all arrived well! Hannah called her family to tell them she was good and told them how the flight went. Apparently she got to go to the cockpit of the plane!! Can you believe it? You'll have to ask Colleen for that picture since its on her computer.

Everyone was hungry, so we went to Piecora's, the best NEW YORK STYLE pizza in Seattle (if you ask Alistair and me).

Then we decided to go to the Aquarium downtown at the docks. Hannah and I took the bus, and Alistair and Colleen and Gary took the car. Hannah was excited to take the bus. It wasn't too busy, so it was kind of cool (or boring). Hannah got to pull the cord a couple of times to get us to the stop down by the water. We stopped to look at the birds and the water before we met everyone at the Aquarium.

Take a look.









We saw Sea Otters playing, and Alistair was showing Hannah the fish that lay in the sand to cover themselves up. They're pretty creepy!






Hannah wanted to touch the star fish, but it was a little scary, so Colleen helped a little. But as you can see here, after that first touch, she got to touching as much as they could!




We ended the day with a CRAZY big octopus in this tank. Good thing Gary was there or we'd be TERRIFIED (everyone involved). This one was SERIOUSLY sucked to the side of the tank!

More on the next day - we went to the market and the zoo!