About a year ago, my Mom and brother and I went to Seattle for a few days. We met up with our closest family friends, who we hardly ever get to see since they live in Idaho. We stayed in the basement/bottom floor of this really cool (and dirty!) old house, the shower was orange and smaller than a phone booth and they had chickens in the yard....because the kitchen window was level with the ground outside, when you went to use the kitchen sink, there would be chickens staring at you and we got to open up the window and feed them bread crumbs.
We went to the aquarium, the zoo, a bunch of the crazy little shops, gum wall, EMP (which was absolutely amazing!), Pike Place Market, and a ton of other tourist spots, I had my first cup of coffee at the first Starbucks....we were there during bumbershoot, we didn't actually go to the festival (we're going to make that a trip all it's own), but all day and all night, as we walked around, we could hear the music, and there were musicians walking around everywhere! One night, we watched a concert from the top of the Space Needle as the full moon was rising over the city, it was beautiful!
There was one day when we tried to find Kurt Cobain's old house...we ended up walking everywhere but where we were supposed to be...our map was very misleading! We're saving that one for the next trip and we're going to go visit Jimi Hendrix's grave next time too.
We drove there and back, road trip style, but we didn't drive our car at all in Seattle, the whole time we were there, we walked almost everywhere (except when we took the bus to the zoo one time)...for miles and miles and miles until our heals were actually bleeding, and every night when we got back to the house we'd just collapse on the bed and eat pudding and cookies, brush our teeth with the chickens
and fall asleep...I haven't been that tired before or since!
That was the greatest vacation I've ever had!
If you had the chance to live your life within any literary world (like to live and take part in the world of Narnia or experience first-hand the adventures of Huck Finn, etc.) which story would you choose to be a part of?
I love this question...definitely my 'Hippo Socks'! (They have a picture of some sort of animal that kind of resembles a pink and blue hippo on the fronts) They are the softest socks in the world! Seriously, I believe they're made of marshmallows and kitten souls!!! 
Not much of a view but SO fun. 
