Downtown Weekend

This past weekend the whole family made the long 15 min trip to downtown Seattle. Every year we have made it our tradition to stay at the Seattle Downtown Sheraton for fun downtown weekend. This year was extra cool for a few reasons. First, the big renovation at the hotel was complete and we got to stay in the "new tower." So brand new room, 32 LCD Digital TV, etc. Second, it was our first time with snow downtown. As you may have heard, it has been a bit wet here in Sea-town. This all started on Saturday with a bunch of snow. It didn't really stick downtown, but boy was it coming down. Unfortunately, it disrupted things enough that a number of things closed early or didn't run at all. For example, our annual carriage ride...didn't happen because there were no horses out. Oh well, we still had a great time. I think the kids just love hanging out in the room, playing store, pretending to call nanas and papas, etc.

One cool thing that the Sheraton has is "Gingerbread Lane"...This is a set of extravagant gingerbread houses that are very very impressive. I took a picture of each of these for you to look at. These are totally real, and 100% made out of candy. Pretty cool!