Space Needle!

We love it when family comes to visit us!

This time it was my cousin Christian! He came all the way from North Carolina!

Can you believe we have been here for 3 years and have never went up on the Space Needle!

Those of you who know me probably know why! It's because I am scared to death of heights!

But with a family member coming to visit that actually cared about going up, I had to grow up and go up!! HAHA!!

Madeline was so scared to go up! She just kept saying "It's just gonna be so scary!" We all had to talk her into going up! Even Sophie was saying "Come on Madeline, I'm not scared!" We stood in line for 10 minutes talking her into it. I finally just told her "you are going up and that is that!" She was just so scared that the "safety cable" was going to break! We talked to the security guys taking the tickets, the photographer, and the lady running the elevator and they told her it was the safest place in Seattle! That helped settle my stomach too!! I was scared! I didn't let Madeline know this.

The security guard told Madeline that each elevator is held by 6 safety straps and that it could be held by just 1 if it had to be.


When we got to the top, she LOVED it!! She was so happy she went up!

How pretty is this view!!

If you look really hard in this one you can see the Jeep!! It is white and has 3 sunroofs!!




Now, I have been there for 3 years! I have been to Seattle for day trips at least 10 times!! I always park in this same lot!!

I guess I was so excited about Christian's visit, I forgot to pay for parking! So I was sitting at a table watching the kids jump at Whirligig (I will post later about this), and I was telling him about our visit to Whirligig last week and I was telling him about what I had paid for, and I said parking!! It clicked, I didn't pay to park!! So I ran outside and found a ticket!! I had gotten it just 20 minutes before!! We had been there over 2 hours!! Talk about feeling dumb!! Then I get outside and buy a parking pass and realize I didn't even bring my keys to put the parking pass in the Jeep. So after I buy the pass and go back in to get the keys, I start to wonder if I even needed to pay the 8 dollars to park since I had already gotten a ticket!!! UGH!! Oh well!