My Christmas gift this year from Scott was a Von Ruden girls’ weekend out in Seattle. Odessa and I planned our special trip for the first weekend I was free from work. Scott helped us find a great hotel room and made us promise to get room service at least once. The trip served a dual purpose as the boys were going to spend the time alone working on potty training.
We left Leo practicing on the potty Saturday morning and drove up to Seattle. Our hotel, The Silver Cloud, happened to be located right between Safeco Field (where the Mariners play) and Century Link Field (where the Seahawks and Sounders play). We were on the top floor right down the hall from the doors to the outside pool and hot tub. While a hotel in Wisconsin with an outdoors swimming area would undoubtedly be closed in January, we were surprised and excited to see this one open. Odessa and I swam four times over the course of our weekend. I dipped my toes in the swimming pool but spent most of my time in the hot tub. She had fun running back and forth. On Sunday morning, it started snowing on our heads while we swam. This was the first snow we’ve seen since Wisconsin.
When we weren’t swimming, we were shopping, eating, or watching movies. We took a shuttle bus down to Pike’s Market, got some ice cream, and walked around. We found a cute toy store on our walk back to the hotel where Odessa was excited to spend some of her Christmas money. It was a bit of a challenge for her to figure out how much she could buy with the money she had. She kept trying to pick out the really expensive items.
We ordered a pizza for supper and watched a movie in the room. Odessa ate three pieces of pizza while I could only manage two. The next morning we ordered room service for breakfast before swimming once more and driving back to Tacoma. We had a great time together. Unfortunately, my camera was almost out of batteries so I didn’t take very many pictures.