Birthday Trip

Yesterday we headed to Seattle for Amanda's birthday. It is about an hour drive from our place and Hayden slept the majority of the way.

When we got there we put him in his Jeep carrier and he was extatic to be able to look around again. We walked around the market for a couple of hours; got some of those fresh doughnuts that you wait in line a half hour for and Amanda got a caramel apple. Pops asked me to stop and check on shipping some clams back to Wisconsin and I think Hayden liked the fish smell. His eyes got really big and he was "ohhh"ing. (I forgot to mention he started drooling, so add that he was drooling really bad too. Lets just say he made his own Lake Hayden by the end of the day.)

After the market we headed down by the piers and decided to go to the aquarium. You'd think being on the ocean, Seattle would have a great aquarium. Not the case, my recommendation is save the $30 and look at the birds around you, basically the same experience. They did however have some bright yellow fish that Hayden followed around for a while with a smile.

By the time we were ready to leave Hayden had already passed out in the carrier. (That doesn't happen much anymore since he can face out.) We stopped in Tukwilla at Bahama Breeze and had some dinner. The food was actually really good. Of course when we got home, Hayden and I had to sing Happy Birthday.

It was a beautiful day and it was even more beautiful that Hayden was so tired he slept from 10-3:30. It was the second day in a row that he slept for more than 5.5 hours. Hopefully this keeps up.