SEATTLE

To celebrate a day off from work, we made a last minute Memorial Day trip to Seattle. Our first stop was the beautiful Woodland Park Zoo. Our favorite exhibits included the penguins, grizzly bears, and gorillas. It probably just depends on the day, but these were the most active and exciting animals. The penguins were diving and swimming around and were just so cute (although, smaller than I imagined a penguin to be).



The grizzly bears were just huge and we were able to see one way up close as he splashed around with some fish on the other side of some plexi-glass. Grady refused to get close enough to pose for a picture with me (he didn't understand that there actually was something separating us from the bear).




And the gorillas were cute because there was a baby climbing all over his/her mom (the not-so-cute part of this exhibit was that apparently gorillas throw up and re-eat their food over and over again and unfortunately we got to see this way up close too--I think lunch was sweet potatoes or something like that--yuck).

To top off our fun Seattle trip, we made a stop in at IKEA where I was able to pick up some much needed storage items like under-the-bed storage boxes and this cubby shelf (which I must say was a steal of a deal at just $49 for the Memorial Day weekend--originally priced 99.99)