After we descended from Mt. St. Helens, we headed north for Woodinville, WA. Once we arrived in Woodinville, we made our way to...you guessed it...more wine tastings! It was a gorgeous day, and from Woodinville, you can get a pretty good sighting of Mt. Rainier. It definitely made up for us not seeing it up close:
The next day, we took a trip to the Woodland Park Zoo just north of Seattle. We were hoping to see the meerkats that they have on exhibit there, but for some reason they weren't out for the public to see that day. Big disappointment. We had a lot of fun anyways, as we always both enjoy seeing the animals.
After the zoo we headed back to our hotel to get cleaned up for our dinner at Herbfarm. We had booked this dinner months in advance after hearing about it from Lucia's coworker. Dinner at Herbfarm is a 9 course "themed" dinner featuring local ingredients and herbs from the on-site garden. Prior to dining, we got a garden tour where the owner taught us about herbs, and was pulling them fresh from the garden for us to taste and smell The food was out-of-this-world! And...PLUG LIST ALERT...during dinner you could go feed their Vietnamese Pot-bellied pigs, so of course we did that! Here are the pigs we fed:
The next day we headed into Seattle. Highlights included the Pike Place Market (we ate at the Athenian Inn, where Sleepless in Seattle was filmed, and we sat in Tom Hanks' and Rob Reiner's seats while we were eating); the Space Needle and the Experience Music Project; the Ballard Locks, where the salmon swim upstream from Puget Sound; Spinasse, a restaurant we had read about and where we got a Chef's Table meal prepared for us; the Seattle Underground tour; and a Seattle Mariners game.
We had such an amazing trip to the Pacific Northwest. We met a lot of nice people, saw tons of great sights, and had a blast! We'd recommend it to anyone!
Arrivederci!
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