I guess this is our 3rd weekend here, but I'm sure we'll lose count soon. After working my first full week, I was ready for the weekend and was looking forward to being able to sleep in again. Friday night we went to eat with the couple we met at church and that was really fun. After dinner, Troy and I drove around for a while and drove on the floating bridges to Mercer Island and Bellevue. We were able to use our webcam to talk to some friends and then went to bed. It was really nice sleeping in until like 9:30 Saturday morning. We didn't really have a plan for the day, so we had to spend a lot of time figuring out what to do before we could leave. We finally went to Noah's to eat bagels (the same bagel place we went to last weekend) and then we drove to Discovery Park. It's a pretty big park that has a ton of places to sit on benches and see the great views from the cliffs. We walked probably over 3 miles throughout the park. It was pretty with all the pine trees everywhere and I bet it's even prettier in the spring and summer when the other trees are green. At one point, we went to the western most point of the park and were able to walk right on the beach. There was a lighthouse there too and tons of rocks and sea shells. We also saw a Hanjin barge which was kind of cool. The first time we went to Seattle, we saw a ton of the Hanjin cargo containers near the docks and so I started to associate them with Seattle. Every time I saw one in Texas, which wasn't very often, I thought about Seattle.

Anyway, we spent a few hours in Discovery Park and after that we were pretty hungry, so we stopped to eat somewhere in an area of the city called the Ballard District. We went to see the Ballard Locks, which is a set of locks between Lake Union and Puget Sound. Since Lake Union and Puget Sound are at different heights and one is fresh water and the other is salt water, the city needed a system to move big boats between the two bodies of water so as not to disturb the marine life in each. After that we went back to the apartment, left the car there, and then walked downtown to see what was going on. We went to a couple of stores looking for furniture that we're interested in buying and some picture frames. I also looked for a new purse, which I'm having a lot of trouble finding. We ate at a sports grill attached to a GameWorks and then ate ice cream from Coldstone. While we were out, we bought a book of bus tickets so we don't have to have exact change anymore if we take the bus around the city.

Then today we went to church in the morning and then went to IKEA to try to find a small dining room table and chairs, a new desk, a bookshelf, and a tv stand. We saw a few things we liked, but weren't too crazy about anything. We ate at Panera and then went home. We didn't have time to take a ride on the ferry boat, but maybe we can do that next weekend.

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