My parents will be visiting us in two weeks and this will be their first visit to Seattle. I'm looking forward to getting to spend time with them again and hope that we can do a good job of showing them around the city. There are plenty of things to do here, so I want to make sure that they get to enjoy a lot of things while spending plenty of quality time with Lesley and me. Since we'll be working during the day, we only need to worry about planning what to do in the evenings and just provide a few suggestions for things my parents can do during the day.

My parents asked about day trips they could take around here. They were interested in going to Vancouver for a day, but that was a little far. I'm sure there are plenty of places nearby that they could go to during the day. I thought that they could go to Snoqualmie Falls, which isn't really that far away. Another good place for them to go would be where we went for our anniversary. Deception Pass is beautiful and I think the small towns of La Conner and Anacortes are popular with tourists. They might also enjoy going to Tacoma to the glass museum, though I don't know what else there is to do there.

As for things to do in the city during the day, they want to do the popular things, like go to the Space Needle and ride the monorail. I'm going to recommend that they go to Pike Place Market as well and check out the shopping downtown. Visiting Pioneer Square would be a good idea, too, though I'm not sure if the Underground Tour that we took would be worthwhile to them. Aside from that, there are other things they could do during the day, like go to the locks, visit UW, or maybe go to Gas Works Park. I don't know what else they could do, though, since they don't like parks as much as we do. I'm not sure if they would want to take a tour bus around the city. Like any other city, there's a zoo, an aquarium, and art museums, but I don't know if that would be that worthwhile. Maybe there are some other things that they can do that I haven't thought about.

As far as things to do during the evening, I think riding a ferry would be a pretty cool thing to do. We could also go to Kerry Park and check out the view. I don't think they'll want to do a lot of walking in the evenings, but we might be able to go to a nice park, like Volunteer Park, and take a stroll. We could also drive them around the city, showing them different parts of town and places we've been.

I'm also not really sure where we'll eat dinner since we haven't tried enough places to have good recommendations of all types of food in all parts of the city. So, hopefully we can find some good places to eat.

I'm sure they'll have a good time here, but I'm going to see what other ideas I can come up with of things to do and places to eat so that they have an even better time.