Finally our morning to go to Portage Bay Cafe. This breakfast spot came highly recommended by Claire, and by Kate when she was here! My virtual school schedule kept getting in the way as was Grace's sleep schedule! :) We made our way up 12th Ave to happen upon Portage Bay. So cute and lots of hustle and bustle inside. Then we spotted the patio. It was a chilly morning, overcase abn 56, but we also spotted the space heaters and neatly folded wool blankets o...

Hard to believet that we have been in Seattle for a week now! Time is going way too fast! The day started slowly with me finishing my homework for my P3 online class and preparing for the Sprouts class that I am teaching at Metro. The latter has been a challenge as I am engaging with my co-teachers and students through Zoom. I will be back in the classroom with everyone when I return from Seattle late next week. Once the work was done, it was time to play! ...

For a day that started slowly, it ended with a bang! First BIG news - the weather today was fabulous! Instead of 93 which we endured on Sunday, the high was 68 with a cool breeze. LOVE! Started the day by being the first one in Herkimer Coffee, an adorable coffee shop right across the street from Claire's apartment. It was a great way to start my day and got Claire off to work! I worked this morning on both my P3 Series class (an online course toward proble...

Good morning last morning in Fremont! We ended our wonderful stay at our airbnb in Fremont. If anyone is travelling out this way and looking for a homey, cozy, beautiful place to stay - let me know. This place comes highly recommended! And the location is on point! I got up early today - before 6 to enjoy the cool start to a hot day. Go figure that when I am here there is a heat avisory in Seattle where June is typicall sweatshirt weather?!? Sitting on the...

So today has one key word... kayak! Wow what an amazing experience we had today kayaking in Lake Union! LOVE! Over an amazing breakfast at Stoneway Cafe, we decided to look for a kayak rental. There is a heat advisory after all for Seattle today - it got all the way up to 83 today! Lol! We found Northwest Outdoor Center just a short mile walk away in Queen Anne. We trekked through the 80 degree heat (lol, again) to the keyak rental. After our 30-second tu...