Christmas Shopping in Seattle

Originally uploaded by iBjorn.

The family went Christmas shopping in Seattle today. I had to rush after getting out of the shower and we just barely made the ten-thirty ferry. The ferry ride was nice. Calvin played GameBoy, Markus and I walked around and Mom and Dad talked to some people from church. It was such a beautiful day and I was especially excited to be going to Seattle. We took the Alaskan Way Viaduct, because it just has great views. Our first stop was Glazer Cameras. I looked at some Lomography cameras and my dad checked out the telescope style binoculars for looking at boats from our house. My dad just wanted to know how much this one was, but they took him through this long demonstration of it and then found out it was like a grand. Why do sales people waste their and our time like that? Next stop was one of my dad's favorites, the Armchair Sailor. Basically it is a store full of sailing books. I found this one book of pictures from Norway. A guy whose last name was Eide made it (that is my middle name). We also went to University Village for a while to make our Apple Store stop. I also saw my fifth and sixth grade teacher as we were walking around. Luckily it was a nice day out, because University Village is an outdoor mall. I don’t know whose idea it was to make one in Seattle, but I guess it is kind of neat. They have umbrellas everywhere that you can use though. Our next stop was South Center. We were in the mall for quite a while, but got really hungry because we did not have lunch, but not before checking out the mini Apple Store they have there. We decided upon Red Robbin, which is usually pretty safe because Markus can get the Ragin' Cajun Chicken Burger. Of course we also had to make a stop at Ikea. There were actually not that many people there, which was a relief after all of the crowds of the day. The last stop of the night was at Borders in Tacoma. Our family goes there just about every time we are in Tacoma. I am getting to know those books pretty well. Being there makes me wish I could read a lot faster. There is so much interesting information. I could sit in there all day looking at books. On the way home my parents dropped me off at church so I could hang out with the college group for the end of their Christmas party. I got to see a lot of people I have not seen in a while, which was pretty cool. They have grown a lot too. There were over twenty cars in the parking lot when I got there and they started with three people two years ago. I also got to see Brett again for the first time since I dropped him off last Sunday. Well I took seventy-six pictures today and posted about half of them on my Flickr site, so go check them out (click on my pics in the right hand side bar).