Saturday at Seattle

 

We went to Seattle on the 22nd of July. It took us about 3 1/2 hours drive to this largest city of  Pacific Northwest region of North America. Sunny day, perfect for outing.

 

Arrived Space Needle around noon, Seattle's most recognizable landmark. It has been featured in the logo of the former Seattle SuperSonics NBA team, the Seattle Sounders MLS team, the television show Frasier and the backgrounds of the television series Dark Angel, Grey's Anatomy, The Killing and iCarly, and films such as It Happened at the World's Fair, Sleepless in Seattle, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Love Happen and The Parallax View.

After a walk at the fairgrounds surrounding Space Needle, we went to Pike Place Market, a public market overlooking the Elliott Bay waterfront in Seattle. The Market opened August 17, 1907, and is one of the oldest continually operated public farmers' markets in the United States.

 The Market is built on the edge of a steep hill, and consists of several lower levels located below the main level. Each features a variety of unique shops such as antique dealers. The upper street level contains fishmongers, fresh produce stands and craft stalls.

 

It is summer time. There are lots of fruits available....

Here we are in front of the pike place market.

 

The first starbucks in the world is located at Seattle, opened in 1971.

 

 

 

On the way to our next destination, we saw this guy on this yellow vehicle, caught everybody's attention.

Here we are at Taylor Shellfish Farms.

 

We ordered some fresh geoduck,

 

and fresh scallops. It served without cooked, and dip with wasabi sauce.

LS playing with popo...

 

Goodbye my friends and teachers...

ES attended kindergarten in this school for about one year plus. While MSLS joined the preschool class for a few months before we left the US.

 

Before we leave, we baked some cookies decorated with royal icing for their classmates and teachers.

A thank you card from ES to her teacher, Ms Jessica, together with a decorated cookie.

And a slice of chocolate cake with coffee mascarporne filling. She really did a great job as we cansee from ES's improvement in mastering English language.

 

Some cookies for ESMSLS's classmates & MSLS's teachers, Ms Amanda & Ms Jenna. They really had a wonderful and memorable experience in their school.

 All packed and ready to distribute to their friends...

 

 

Unwrap the present, please.....

Baked a carrot cake with daisies & ribbon last month.

The girls were so excited when they saw it.

They asked yan auntie to unwrap the present! Opps.. supposed it is a cake, haha!

Faiza's party at Pump It Up

Faiza, ES's classmate had invited ESMSLS for her party at Pump It Up, Beaverton, before she go back Kuwait.

The girls were having great fun in this private, indoor arenas with gigantic inflatables.  " Rock climbing" by LS.

 

a group photo for all....

From left : Faiza, Lulu and ES

 LS together with Faiza's sister enjoying some snacks after playing.

 

Took a photo with Faiza before we leave. ( from left: Faiza, ES, Jasmine, Lulu ). They will missed each other as they will be in different schools in First grade.

Ice Cream Social & Puppet Show

The girls attended ice cream social & puppet show in their school middle of last month. Dragon Theater Puppets performed their new show, Rocket Hamsters Dreamy Space Odyssey this year.

Attracted by the show....full concentration, even while drinking water.

 

Popo was here too with the girls.

 

After the show, the puppeteer explained to the crowd on how he operate a few puppets at the same time. The girls enjoyed the show very much.... 

Picnic Day

It was partly cloudy on 14th July, Saturday. We went to a park nearby the main library for picnic.

Baked some egg tart the night before, use the balance of the ingredients to make an egg pie.

All the girls...

ES trying Yan auntie's shoes.

Oh.... They saw a squirrel! 

Climbing up the tree.

Leisure day @ Portland

We took Tri Met to Portland last few weeks, during ah yi's visit.

The girls were excited to be on the train again!

 The scenary in front of Tom McCall Waterfront park.

MSLS with gong gong, and popo. Having some snacks after a leisure walk along the park. 

 We visited Voodoo Donut again.

ES's favourite donut  - bubble gum donut!

One of Voodoo's best selling donut.