Vancouver Aquarium

After 4 days of Seattle, we went up to Vancouver for a day and a half with Meiko.

On the way up we drove through a snow storm. We were afraid it would be snowing in Vancouver, but it wasn't. :-) Our first stop was the Vancouver Aquarium

Seattle in 4 days!

While Meiko was here, Nile and Meiko went around Seattle. Here are some things that they saw:

The new main branch of Seattle Public Library. (Picked as one of the 100 best modern buildings in the U.S. by Architectural Digest.)

At Volunteer Park, Meiko pokes her head through the Black Sun.

Nile gave a tour of the Conservatory. Here is Nile among her collection of cacti and succulants.


They did a drive-by of Safeco Field where Meiko got to see a giant poster of Ichiro while Nile watched the traffic lights.

Kerry Park--the vista of Seattle. We went back that night too.

The new Olympic Sculpture Park!

The also stopped by the SAM (under construction) and saw the famous sculpture.

Nile and Meiko went to the first Starbucks.

Meiko brought some origami paper for Matt, so they folded some origami together. They made a hermit crab and orca together.

Here is the completed hermit crab.

Seattle YUM!

Nile's friend from foever-ago, Meiko came to visit us from Okinawa for 6 days. Nile and Meiko went on a restaurant tour of Seattle. First stop was Vios, our neighborhood Greek restaurant. It was as good as it looks. They had: Lamb Suvaluki and Greek Salad.



Then they started eating before taking photos. This is at Tutta Bella Pizza. Takashi said that their pizza's are better then the ones he had in Italy.


This is Queen Sheeba, our local Ethiopian restaurant. This was Meiko's first time trying Ethiopian food.

Then they started to forget to take photos all together. Other restaurants they visited were: Red Mill Burgers (one of the 20 best burgers in US, according to GQ), and Agua Verde (Mexican).

These were donuts from Top Pot. YUM!

Lastly, when we went to Vancouver, we had some cup cakes, yummy dim sum, and crepes.



We're pretty sure we all grew sideways that week.

Lemon Cake!

For Valentine's Day, we were going to make this Lemon Cake but Nile was so tired it didn't happen on the actual day. When it did happen, it was really good!















As you can see, we're too excited to eat it to take a good picture! It was really good!

Flower and Garden show

Anita, Jim and Nile went to the Flower and Garden show.

Anita got a lot of ideas and Nile got a lot of questions from Anita. Nile was happy when she found the Master Gardener talbe that could answer Anita's questions for her. ;-)
 

Cupcakes for Valentine's Day

Matt made Nile this sweet cupcake for Valentine's day. He also decorated a few others with flowers.