Delight in the Views

Once we like something especially food we re-visit that place about every two weeks. During the summer we were on a gyro kick. We would first stop to get something that Riley would eat then head on over to Pike Place where the gyro place is at.

We love it when we finally find a restaurant/location where they have delicious food. Like now after four years we have our favorite locations for Pizza, hamburgers, chinese food, taco shop, fish and chips, and now gyro's. A couple of these locations are in Seattle, South of Seattle and Astoria Oregon. We have a good time whenever we plan on going to any of these locations because that means that more than likely we will make an fun outing out of it.

When we lived in Tucson we never found a gyro location that we liked or a chinese food location. So whenever we would visit San Diego (which was about every few months) we would stop at our favorite greek food place to fill our craving.

Sydna and Nathan don't really go on many outings with us anymore. Expected and we're fine by it but it's good to have them around every now and then. Sydna was at work and Nathan had a day off so he came along with us.
Gosh, Nathan had a major growth spurt this past summer, puberty kicking in full blast finally for this guy. His voice completely changed and he was finally getting taller ... the change was like night and day with this one.

We don't usually visit the famous (disgusting) gum wall when we're at Pike Place but decided to this time, it had been a while.
A couple of years ago when my parents visited we brought them here and my dad placed his gum on the wall, lol. I've never done it.

We walked down to the waterfront. It's not far just crowded with tourists.
It's nice there are places to sit to enjoy the view. I seriously could have stayed here for a couple of hours but if I remember correctly the sun was kinda burning the left side of my face so after about fifteen minutes I had to seek some shade. Riley was busy trying to coax seagulls to come close to him but since he didn't have any food he wasn't having any luck.

Nice isn't it?

This squid statue is across from the Aquarium.

One evening we got Pagliaci pizza and had a picnic in W Seattle. It's a decent stretch of road as you're nearing the restaurants area. There's a sandy area where there's usually volleyball going on then there's a community center and on the other side of that it's all grass and picnic tables. The grass side is where it's the most chill and where I prefer to hang out at ... Riley prefers the sandy side so we usually let him play for a bit then head over to the grass area.

He's always keeping his dad busy. Makes me happy to see Jacob and Riley doing things together.

These were the last days of summer. Soon we would be back to school routine once again and time to slow down.

Give thanks for the simple things in life.