Seattle Trip W/ Pics

My husband and I just celebrated our One year anniversary in Seattle Washington. It was so much fun to go up there because that is where he served his mission two years ago. It was great to see all the places he had served and even meet a few people he had been visiting with while he was there. Most people will say after a year of marriage that they can't believe it has been that long but for me I can say it seems about right. Not that anything horrible happen to make time slow down but there was a lot going on that made everyday full of things to do. We are both attending college right now and have been for the past couple of years. It definitely keeps us busy and studying a lot, well actually I hardly ever study but Moss is really good at it. But soon it will all be over for me and I will just head off to work and support Moss while he works his way to getting into medical school. I hope to get a job in some kind of medical office just making appointments and things, nothing to difficult but that will keep me busy. My job i have right now is like the easiest thing ever, but i get bored too easily and don't get paid too much. It would also be nice to get a job with some health benefits to someday we can start a little family, but I am pretty sure it will be awhile until that happens. Seeing as I was pretty young when I got married I have a little time to be lazy.
Moss and I are the average newly wed couple we spend a lot of time together and love to talk about everything. We have one problem though we don't really like to do a lot of the same things so we usually just end up doing stuff by each other and not necessarily with each other. For instance last night I was signing songs on the sweet karaoke machine Moss gave me for Valentines day. While he studied away on his upcoming Physiology test. Which by the way he is doing awesome in that class he got 114% on his lecture test and then 99% on his Lab test. Most people have to take that class twice but I think he will be able to just do it once hopefully. Me on the other hand are just trying to make myself go to my last semester of school. You would think it would be easy cause I am so close but I am ready to be done. I don't know how people get there masters in anything. I guess I will find out when Moss is doing it. Anyways... Moss and I try to do things together but the one thing we really like to do it go shopping. I swear we are like little kids whenever we allow ourselves to go into Best Buy. There is some sweet stuff in there. We just bought a GPS for our trip to Seattle and it was amazing!!! We never ever got lost and it probably saved us from a lot of fights:) Speaking of Seattle I will go into more details about it cause it was awesome.
We drove down to Vegas on Thursday (V-day) and stayed in a sweet Hotel, the Orleans. Although I think Gambling is a really stupid habit it sure is sweet when other people spend their money so that the hotel can build cool stuff for cheap. So we got into Vegas and checked into our room and went to look around the hotel. We fist look for some restaurants because we were pretty hungry at this time. We saw a TGI Friday and decided to eat there but first we went and got tickets and the Theater that was upstairs. That was cool to stay in a hotel with a theater built right in. Thanks Gamblers!!! We got tickets to see Definitely Maybe. Well we went and waited to eat for quite a while but finally got in after watching some pretty weird people. So we ate fairly quickly because we had to catch the movie. Before the movie we got some candy. Well I got some candy and Moss got a truck load haha. Not really but he did get a lot, about a pound to be precise. He loves his skittles and M&M's thats for sure. He claims skittles are fruit but I guess he doesn't really need to worry about gaining any weight, that is my department. So after are candy splurge we watched are movie. It was really good it was not your typical chick flick so thats always fun. Afterwards we went up to our room to catch some shut eye before we hand to catch our flight at 9:10. We made it to the airport like 2 hours before, the time they tell you too and well we were plenty on time. Everything went fine and we were setting in the terminal about an hour and a half before lift on. We didn't eat any breakfast so we went over to the cinnabon and got some food. Moss ate most of it because well I was really nervous about the flight but he made sure I ate some food. He is good at looking after me like that. We then settle down with the laptop and watch some good ol' friends that calmed me down quite a bit. We then boarded the plan and headed off to Seattle. I was still pretty scared but Moss held my hand really tight and calmed me down a lot. He was being so cute telling me how excited he was to be able to fly with me. I really fell in love with this kid all over again on this vacation. Well the flight went well as soon as we were able to watch some more friends on the lap top. As we were about to land and could see Seattle Moss got to excited and couldn't believe he was actually back there. He kept kissing me and giving me hugs it was so cute. The plan landed and we headed on our way. I had like 3 missed calls from Bonnie (my older sister) and a voice mail. She was really worried that our plan had crashed. Sometimes she acts like my mom haha. But I love her still the same! We had about two hours until we could check into our Hotel in Renton so Moss drove me to some of the places he had served in. It was so weird to see the apartment he lived in and the streets he rode his bikes on. I don't know why but it made me feel so much closer to him. I would recommend it to anyone who married a return missionary. Now when he talks about his mission I can relate a lot more. So we drove around to a bunch of places and he should me mount rainier, it is beautiful. Next we headed to the whole reason for our vacation, to eat at the first established Red Robin...haha. Well it wasn't the main reason but close. It was really good cause we were both so hungry and well its Red Robin so its got to be good. They put an egg on your sandwich weird huh? But it is so good. Especially their Honey Mustard sauce. Mmmm... Good. After Lunch we headed to a park that was a big hill of grass that overlook the city. It was rainy at the time so we didn't send too much time there but it was still fun. We then headed to another park that was gorgeous. Moss actually took his picture there while he was on his mission so later in the trip we took a picture of us both. I am excited to make a little scrap book of our trip! We even went to the mission office where he spent most of his time on his mission and we saw inside the office a golden hub cap that him and his companion had made to give to the people with the cleanest car. Moss thought it was crazy that they were still using it haha.
We then went to the Seattle Temple and took some pictures.
We finally headed toward our hotel and got all settled in. The room wasn't as cool as the Vegas one but it was in Seattle so it was still awesome. We then got all dressed up to go eat some good dinner at the top of the space needle. It was really expensive there is a minimum of $35 per person.
But it was way cool anyways. Moss went there twice on his mission so it was cool to see what it looked like. It was sweet to see the city at night all lite up as the spun around on the top. It was kind of scary but not too bad. Afterwards we drove downtown and walk around some of the shops, it was kind of creepy though running into a lot of homeless people but Moss protected me. We then went back to the hotel and that was Friday.
Saturday was our one year anniversary and it was really fun. We went down to the shops in down town Seattle and look at some sweet stuff. Moss tried to find a cool jacket but the only one he wanted was like 200 dollars so we decided against it. Maybe on another anniversary we will be able to splurge like that. We also went down to pikes place. It is there really big Market that everyone brings there random stuff they made and home and sell it. There were some really cool stuff there. The coolest part was the seeing the fish market. There are a bunch or huge fish everywhere we got some sweet picture by them. Also if someone orders a fish they will toss it across the shop for a guy to catch. They all yell really loud. I got a cool picture of the guy throwing one. Afterwards he came up to me and look in the camera and in a really low voice said, "Is it there?" haha . He just grabbed the camera and zoomed in and stuff it was really funny. Now whenever Moss and I are looking for something we will say,"Is it there?" in a really low voice haha. Good times.

Well we then went on a drive to puwallup. That is the last place that he served. He told me a bunch of stories about every house that we passes. It was so cool! I love hearing stories especially from Moss. That is the big reason I started to fall in love with him on our first date haha. We were about to head out when I saw a guy on a bike then a few seconds later i say another guy I said Moss there are some missionaries let say hi. So we flipped around and pulled over so we could talk to them. They seemed a little freaked out a little but until Moss told them who he was. One Elder said he remembered him from the area book. That was cool. Well we found out when church was and then let them go on there way. Later we went to dinner at apple bees. Moss just wanted to find a subway but I reminded him it was our anniversary. He was like oh yeah. We both laughed. Dinner was good, I love knowing I get to eat dinner with him forever:) I forgot to mention that we ate lunch at the place that they filmed a dinner scene in sleepless in Seattle. It was pretty sweet. We stop by Wal-mart to get some food for Sunday and then headed home.
On Sunday we got up bright and early to get to church by 9. A few people recognized Moss, the ward had just been split so a lot of people were not there anymore. But Bro. Robinson did and the old bishop and Bro Anderson and one other guy that I can't remember his name. They all said Moss was a great missionary and they really missed him. That is always great to hear about your Husband. After church we came home and took a nap. I love how Moss is so cuddling whenever we are sleeping. He said that he didn't like sleeping on a King bed because he could never find me in the night. He is so cute! After our nap we had some chicken noodle soup for lunch and then we went out to snow quilme. I have no idea how to spell that, but it had really cool falls out there. We went on a little hike down to them and got some picture of it. There were too many people though so we couldn't get too good of pictures. We then drove around some more and went to the bellvue park, it was way cool. We saw a guy sitting on a bench talking on the phone and Moss said that would of been him if he would of moved up to Seattle like he wanted to. So I asked him what we would be talking about and we had a conversation pretending I was in St. George, it was really funny!









Then we came home for dinner. We had some sweet tv dinners and then went and saw the cathedral. We came home and watched some tv and waited until 12:01 when we went down to the restaurant that was by our hotel and we had some breakfast food. There were some people next to us arguing about there religion and Moss and I both thought how could you be apart of a religion that has so many undefined things in it. We were very grateful for our knowledge at that time and I know Moss was chopping at the bit to set them all straight but we were both way tired and probably wouldn't of been very productive.
On Monday we got up and checked out of our hotel room and headed to Bellvue where we did some shopping and I got some way cute new pants and then we went to lunch at a sweet pizza place. I was getting way sad to leave Seattle and moss comforted me and told me we would come back. Our last stop was Starbucks were we got some sweet non-coffee drinks and pretended to be the cool people that hang out there all the time. We then headed to the airport where once again we got there like two hours early so we watched some friends and then boarded the plan. It was really funny because as Moss and I were sitting there I noticed something odd about Moss' shirt, I said is it on inside out and he look down and smiled and said yup. It was really funny we joked about how I should probably help him get dressed from now on. It was just funny because that is something that I would do not him. The flight home was great and then we found our car and drove home. It was a great vacation and I am so glad we took it I feel a lot closer to Moss. We didn't even fight the whole trip, we hardly ever do anyway but usually trips are where people get sick of being together but not us. It was sweet!!! Well that is it for today. This was very long but I had a lot to say!