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Running Moms Rock 5K

July 31, 2014 by Life is a Run · Leave a Comment

Back in April I had this brilliant plan that I would keep up with running 5Ks after completing Kacie’s Run and that way I could get a collection of race t-shirts that would fit my growing pregnant belly. Except I pretty much didn’t follow through with that at all. Ha! Both Teal and I had become apart of the local chapter of Moms Run This Town and I heard from our girl, Catherine, that she would be participating in the Running Moms Rock 5K along with some of the other moms.

I might not be a mom to a baby on the outside yet, but I figured since I have a baby cooking I could participate in this 5K, right?

Unlike most races that start in the wee hours of the morning this one was at 5:00 p.m. We are in April here in Texas and the heat has already come out to play for the year, so it was a bit toasty out there. This race was so last minute for me that I actually signed up at the race site.

Even though it was just a 5K, I definitely had a case of the going out too fasts. Oh, well, you live and you learn plus this whole running while pregnant thing is still very new to me. I met up with DK on the course and we completed the 5K together. It was good to have a buddy out there and to catch up with her since I hadn’t seen her in awhile! I brought home a time of 33:58.

25 weeks 3 days pregnant at the Running Moms Rock 5K

Since I was last minute on this race I didn’t get to participate in being on a team for the race and coming up with a costume to wear, but thankfully the other ladies in the MRTT group let me still be apart of their photo after the race! Don’t they look cute?

photo cred: Jolene A from Moms Run This Town

Back to my brilliant plan of running 5K’s so you get a t-shirt instead of a tech tee, well, that definitely didn’t happen here. Who knew they’d actually be passing out tech tees for this race. So while I was successful in running a 5K I was not in having an extra large shirt to fit my pregnant belly. Oh well!

Filed Under: Pregnancy, Races, Uncategorized Tagged With: 5k, highland village, Moms Run This Town, pregnant running, race shirts, races, running, Running Moms Rock, tech tee

Baby P’s Locally Grown Shower

July 15, 2014 by Life is a Run · 2 Comments

Last week you got to see Baby P and hear all about his arrival into this world, but today we wanted to share how we celebrated him before his arrival with the shower Beth and friends helped throw Teal and Baby P.

We rave a lot on this blog about Beth’s sister, Kate, who is a website and graphic designer. She has designed SO MUCH stuff for us! The header for our blog was done by her and some of the recurring headers for posts are designed by her just for us! Well, Kate, helped throw this baby shower and she was the one who landed on the theme we would use for it as well.

The locally grown theme is SO Teal and was perfect for celebrating her little dude, so we ran with that theme and put together what we thought was a very cute shower!

Neither one of us (not that Teal would be making decos for her own shower) sew, but in our little group of girlfriends we have a couple of VERY talented ladies. This is demonstrated by the cute bunting that was made specifically with Teal in mind.

There was so much delicious food at this shower too including taco bites, guacamole bruschetta, jalapeno pin wheels and mini cobblers in mason jars. Special mention goes to the snack mix with goldfish because, well, there were goldfish in it! And of course we had cupcakes and an awesome trail mix in mason jars in the blue crate as a thank you gift to all of the guests for coming and showering Teal and Baby P!

We missed getting a picture of ALL of the hostesses, but we did manage this picture! There were also some more decorations that just didn’t get photographed. 🙁 But you might have noticed that Baby P hasn’t actually been referred to as anything other than Baby P. 🙂 There is good reason for this and also why not ALL of this shower is photographed. Some things are better left a mystery right?!

To find out more about Kate’s custom invitations or her website and graphic design skills please check out her website here and/or shop her Etsy store here!

Filed Under: Life, Pregnancy, Uncategorized Tagged With: baby shower, baby shower food, custom invitations, decorations, locally grown

Baby Perez’s Big Arrival

July 8, 2014 by Life is a Run · 2 Comments

It has been 12 weeks and 5 days since my last run (OK, pause, this post was written almost two weeks ago so now you know! 🙂 And unpause!). Today I did this…

It was brutal. My intention was to just see what I could do and that was about the limit. I set out with the jogging stroller to run/walk 3 miles. In my head I wanted to be easier, I ran up to 35 weeks pregnant but I still pretty much knew that it would not be good. I took off way longer than I intended and here is why…

I went into my 36 week doctor appointment and the doctor told me that I was carrying a rather large baby. At the rate that he was growing he would be over 9lbs if he did not come on time. She mentioned induction but I knew that was not what I really wanted to do. My intentions were for no medical intervention. Induction clearly was medical intervention. Every week passed this date we waited for progress towards labor. Nothing. Well nothing really, I dilated slightly but it pretty much never moved. This baby was bound and determined to cook forever. We got to 39 weeks and really nothing. I had an induction scheduled and still pretty much didn’t believe we would have to do it. I did EVERY old wives tale in the book…. Every single one… walk, spicy food, sex, eating pineapple, drinking weird teas… you name it, I did it. NOTHING. No progress. We came to the induction date and I had pretty much accepted that this would happen. My thought was, ok, I will avoid a C-section. He won’t be huge, I will have natural labor and this will be fine! Keep in mind this is my first, I know nothing but what I have read on the internet. I had googled the crap out of everything. I wanted to find stories of women who had had an induction but still had labor without medication and other interventions. There were tons. I felt confident going in. I had read the books, taken the classes, prepared/practiced breathing and had 2 very good coaches I felt comfortable with. My mom is pretty hippy and she kept convincing me that natural labor would work and we would get through it.

We went in for induction 5pm the day before and they started me on cervidil. I actually went into labor with just that around 2am. Contractions started and were pretty mild and were definitely manageable. 7am hit and I was having more intense contractions, and starting around now I would start to vomit during every contraction. I was nowhere near transition and was only about 3cm dilated and was very worried about this. I went for about an hour like this. Contraction, vomit, break, contraction, vomit, break. In my head I was very worried about this. I was worried about being sore, hurting the baby, being dehydrated and really it is flat out horrible throwing up during contractions…it makes them soooo much worse because I could not breathe through them like the classes had said. My blood pressure would also drop drastically during this time and they would have to give me meds to try and raise it. I felt like at this point after 7 hours that I couldn’t make it. I talked to my nurse and she said an epidural would most likely stop the vomiting. I caved after 7 hours. I felt horrible about this decision and didn’t like it but I did it. I pretty much felt like the biggest weenie in the world and like I had failed myself. I really knew at this point I wouldn’t make it with all the vomiting. At 8:30 I took the epidural, which took about 10-15 minutes to work. Immediately after that my blood pressure started to fall drastically again. They had to put me on oxygen and give me drugs to try to raise it back up again. It really wasn’t working and my contractions on the monitor began to get very eradicate.

Around this time the nurse came in and told me to immediately role on my right side. I did and stayed there for like 10 seconds, at least that I what it felt like. She then said go to the left. We stayed there for almost no time. It was at this point she said “Teal, I need you to get on all fours NOW” and she hit the emergency button. I panicked. I hear emergency in room 310 on the speaker and within seconds we had about 18 people in the room. They were moving me, my monitors, and kept saying they had lost the baby’s heart rate. I freaked out. I start crying like crazy and asking what is going on and they just keep looking for a heartbeat. I have no confirmation that my baby is OK and it was about this time that my doctor was literally 2 cm from my face saying “We are going to take this baby now, he is telling us how he wants to come out.” I hear them say that “Dad needs clothes,” and know immediately we are going in for a C-section.

Within 12 minutes they had my baby out. I was still panicked and still crying even after they showed me him. My baby had wrapped his cord around his body and every time I had a contraction it would tighten around him and cause his heart rate to drop or get cut off. His cord was barely attached to the placenta and that’s why we had so many problems. He was out, however, and 100% fine. Nothing that had just happened sat with me and I really was out of it. I realized hours later that I am glad I took the epidural when I did because they would have most likely had to put me to sleep for the delivery since it works faster. I am glad I was awake!

I remember being rolled into the room and getting my baby boy and thinking that was nowhere near what I had expected but I was so happy that he was OK. I was in the hospital from Monday to Saturday and really did not feel well the majority of the time. I have never been on pain meds or given so many drugs and really felt out of it. I can’t even tell you what all I had but I knew it was more than ever, especially for someone that you have to force to take Aleve.

Because of the C-section I was told to do nothing physical for 6 weeks, including walking for exercise or lifting anything more than the weight of the baby. The pain for the C-section was a lot for me and I struggled. I took the pain meds at home for about 3 days and pretty much weaned myself off way before the doctor said I should. They sucked! It took me about a month but I decided to go for walks. The first one I cried through and it was painful and then got better from there. At 6 weeks the doctor cleared me to work out!!! I immediately went back to my trainer Will who I knew would help me and make sure I didn’t hurt myself but still was pushed. The workout was super hard. My ab strength is essentially gone and my stamina is blah.

I took my first run today. You see it above, 14+mins a mile. Super sweaty, super exhausting, but super amazing. I am glad to be active again and ready to get back in shape. My goal is to run the half at Dallas Marathon in December and feel good about it. We shall see!! Today is Day 1 of working on that! I have tons of time but life with an infant is crazy! Ready to see how this all plays out!

Filed Under: Pregnancy Tagged With: baby, c section, epidural, labor and delivery, natural birth, postpartum, pregnancy, running, running for two, trainer, workout

Kacie’s Run 2014

July 3, 2014 by Life is a Run · Leave a Comment

Not to get all sentimental but Kacie’s Run is special to us! We have now run it 3 times and was one our first races together when we started all this running madness. Last year we got rained out, booo mother nature, but this year the weather was awesome. As you know this race is put on by Teal’s school district to honor one of their former students and to raise money for Special Olympics! What’s not awesome about that?!

We met up Saturday morning and found some of Teal’s old co-workers. We have talked about our friend, Chris, a few times before and he actually ran his first 50 miler with Catherine at Rocky Raccoon in February. We found him dressed as a Flying Monkey from Wizard of Oz. Yep, we really don’t know why but his entire school was dressed as Wizard of Oz… at least the ones cool enough to dress up. He cracked us up because he was going to just “run” the race until another co-worker, Duncan, wouldn’t dress up because he wanted to “race”. Chris said “Now, I am racing this thing and he will get passed by a flying monkey!” It was on and it was cracking us up!

How cute were this year’s shirts?!

Teal really had no idea what would happen with this race. She basically just showed up either ready to walk the entire thing or run/walk, but probably not run. She really hadn’t run in over 2 weeks and the last time she ran she made it .25 of a mile and had to walk and pee. She basically ran/walked 2 miles and wanted to die. Sorry TMI, but good lord the bladder pressure is REAL! She didn’t drink water before the race (she knows this is bad) to give herself the best chance at not having to pee over the 3.1 miles. IT WORKED! She was actually able to run that entire dang thing without peeing and without walking! It was very interesting to run sans headphones and that pregnant! People on the course were super awesome and supportive and really made it easier to keep running. It’s nice to still be able to move at this point and just be active!

Beth ran this race at just over 21 weeks pregnant! Remember how Chris was going to work on beating Duncan dressed as a flying monkey, well he did and Beth… pregnant Beth, was just behind Duncan by about 8 seconds. Take that! Ha

This was Teal’s last race before Baby Perez got here! We are glad it went well and we look forward to coming back next year. You guys should totally join us! We say this every year, so when are some of you going to take us up on that?!?!

Filed Under: Pregnancy, Races Tagged With: 5k, CFBISD, Kacie's Run, pregnancy, pregnant running, running, running for two, Special Olympics

Rock ‘n’ Roll Dallas 2014

July 2, 2014 by Life is a Run · Leave a Comment

So at this point it’s July and it’s about dang time I put up a recap of my last half marathon in MARCH, right?! Right! Here goes – when we ran New Years Double on January 1st Teal did the half and I did the the full so we found ourselves yet again at not the same half marathon number. Don’t you love how we try and keep that the same?? It just makes it easier to keep count!

I had signed up for Rock ‘n’ Roll Dallas as the last half I would run during this pregnancy. The weather has been pretty good for this race minus 2012 when it was hot! I didn’t then and still don’t now really know how pregnancy and hot weather mix, but it completely scares me! 🙂 Anyway, I thought this would be a great last half to do plus it was great motivation to keep me going with running. And my cousin/friend, Chase, would be coming up from Houston to run this race as well!

It was hard to have goals for this race other than finish it! At 20 weeks pregnant and still not really noticeable that I am pregnant I just didn’t know what my body would want to do that day. While you couldn’t totally tell I was pregnant my pace had definitely slowed down some so I knew I was not going to be busting out a new PR or anything that day. Of course, as race day got closer I did have this idea in my head that maybe I could achieve a 2:10 half, but again this would take a lot of listening to my body.

I got in my corral just minutes before the first corral was signaled to take off. I was getting nervous, but was also thankful that it was kind of chilly out there instead of really, really hot! When it was our turn Chase and I took off together although we didn’t stay together long because of a potty break. 🙂 In our family we joke about how some of us have the world’s smallest bladders and lucky for both Chase and me we inherited it! I knew I would see some friendly faces out on the course so I just tried to start off conservatively and keep an eye out for people to say “hi” to!

photo cred to Amy Stubblefield

My first sighting was Amy from NTX Runners who snapped the above picture of me. Since I waited until the beginning of July to write this recap (minus the few notes I put in my phone) I can’t remember now when I expected to see Teal & Catherine out there cheering, but it was juuuust shortly after this and I was soooo happy to see their smiling faces!

My happiness of seeing them is evidenced below. 🙂

A little blurry, but I was surviving which is good to do somewhere around the 3.5 mile mark of a half marathon. 🙂 So I kept on going and the next big thing I remember from the course was that I was running through a neighborhood, saw this group of people outside of a house and thought that little kid looks familiar! Ohhhh, it’s Cason! As in the son of J-Si from KISS FM and sure enough his wife, Kinsey, holding their daughter and their son, Cason, playing. Though I didn’t actually see J-Si out there anywhere. Bummer! But I thought that was fun since I’m a Kidd Kraddick in the Morning fan!

Shortly after this I saw the most awesome cheering squad comprised of FRUNNERS!! Right around mile 8 which made me oh so happy! I mean, look at those happy faces and look at that hot dog! 🙂

photo cred to Mama C

This left me with a goofy grin on my face and not even a mile down the road from that sighting did I hear the sounds of a police officer being an awesome cheerleader for all of the runners! This was the first time I’d really heard an officer be THAT encouraging and vocal towards runners on a race course. I loved it! So pretty much the goofy grinned stayed on my face that much longer thanks to him. Before you know it I was telling myself you only have a 5K left! And then it was you only have a mile left! Somewhere I was able to tap into a bit of a reserve for a final kick right before the finish line.

I don’t know who exactly gets the photo cred here, but Lisa texted me the picture 🙂

Oh, did you wanna know if I actually came in around 2:10 or not like I had put in my head?! Well, I made it across the finish line in 2:09:19! I was pretty darn proud of myself and felt like I ran a really conservative race considering I was in fact running for two. 🙂

With that I was caught up to Teal with half marathon no. 21 in the books! We will see you half marathons again on the other side of our pregnancies! 🙂

Filed Under: Pregnancy, Races Tagged With: 20 weeks, frunners, half, Half Marathon, J-Si, Kidd Kraddick, Kidd Kraddick in the Morning, KISS FM, pregnancy, pregnant running, Rock 'n' Roll Dallas, running, running for two

Wordless Wednesday No. 49

June 11, 2014 by Life is a Run · 3 Comments

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: Baby P, monthly baby pics, one month

The Great Gender Reveal

June 6, 2014 by Life is a Run · Leave a Comment

By now you all know and have known that we both are having boy babies. OK, fine, Teal had a boy baby and Beth is still growing her boy baby. 🙂 Yes, we are almost 3 months later giving you the details of the gender reveal that Beth’s sister, Kate, and sister-in-law, Tiffany, threw for her. You see with the forces of Kate & Tiffany combined these parties slash events magically come together in the cutest of ways and we just HAD to share with the world what they did. We say magically, but really they are both just that creative so there really is no magic involved!

For privacy reasons we are sure you can understand that we cropped the very bottom part of the invitation Kate created out. 🙂

How cute is that table?! They did such a good job and made so many yummy desserts for the event! But on to the main attraction –

See Beth’s bro in the corner of that pic face timing with some family who couldn’t make it so they could be apart of the big reveal!

Beth’s oldest nephew anxiously waiting on the right of this picture to find out what his next cousin will be!

BOY!!

A couple of excited grandmoms! 🙂

We think it’s safe to say these dudes are excited to have another boy in the family. We know they’ll be the best older cousins ever to Baby H!

It was such a fun night and thank you to all who came!!

Filed Under: Life, Pregnancy Tagged With: baby, baby boy, custom invitations, gender reveal, invitation, party

#LiAR Throws a Party

May 28, 2014 by Life is a Run · Leave a Comment

Pretty sure in a recent post we mentioned that this entire year is just flying by for both of us! Not only have we been anxiously awaiting the arrival of our babies (except now Teal’s is here!!), but we’ve also had quite a few friends also having their own major life events. One of said friends is our dear friend, Bitner. Now you’ve seen him before in race recaps because he’s also a runner and we’ve gone out to races with him (for example, Tour des Fleurs 2011, Rock n Roll San Antonio 2011, White Rock Marathon 2011, Tour des Fleurs 2012, Tour des Fleurs 2013 and some others that haven’t been documented on the blog).

Bitner and his partner were tying the knot and he had asked both of us to be Bridesmaids in his wedding, so we decided we needed to throw him a proper wedding shower before the big day. Sadly Teal’s due date and Bitner’s wedding date ended up being within two days of each other so she would no longer be in the wedding 🙁 , but this was a great way to still be apart of the festivities for her.

We like to think we throw a darn good party and we kicked it off by Beth’s sister, Kate, designing us the perfect custom wedding shower invitation. This is the part of the blog where we say WE LOVE KATE!! No, really we do! She’s such a talented graphic designer and can custom make pretty much anything! If you are ever looking for invitations, announcements, cards, cupcake toppers, signs, water bottle labels, etc. Kate’s Etsy shop is where you need to go! Just look at this beautiful invite that is now apart of her etsy shop!

ignore that we cut off the bottom so the address is removed and added a copyright

We went with gold & silver for the colors since that’s what the wedding colors are. They’re just such classic colors – you can’t go wrong and obviously, Bitner did not! Since everyone loves a good brunch we figured we would center the theme around that and also to make serving mimosas acceptable. Although these days amongst this group of friends we pretty much think any celebration calls for mimosas. 🙂 Are we really that far off?

You might have already noticed but we opted to make a little photo booth for the shower too full of props and a cute background with a burlap love sign. Whoever it was that first thought up the idea of photobooths full of props at events such as these was a genius! They just add to the fun! Just a little bit of the fun –

All in all it was a very fun day! We loved getting to honor and celebrate Bitner and his upcoming wedding. Bitner received so many gifts that centered around hosting his own party at his house we debated just heading straight there to continue the festivities for the day. 😉

We would tell you, Steven & Chaz, that we wish you a lifetime of happiness, but we in fact know you have a lifetime of happiness together in store. We love you guys!

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: brunch, custom invitations, gay wedding shower, graphic design, photo booth, photo booth props, wedding shower

Running for Two: Trimester Two

May 27, 2014 by Life is a Run · Leave a Comment

I had to go back and really remember what range of time made up the second trimester for me which is kind of sad since I’m really still early on in the third trimester. My second trimester was made up mostly of February, March, April and a little bit of May. I was hoping to still put in at least another 100 mile month in either February or March, but that just did not happen. February ended with 71.81 miles while March came in at 67.41 miles. During this time I had the fact that I was registered for Rock n Roll Dallas as my last half to run while pregnant as my motivation to get the miles in as much as possible. A lot of my running at this point had become solo which was not really what I was use to and made for some lonely times out on the pavement.

16 weeks 3 days pregnant

an overall pace of 9:52 don’t be fooled by the garmin set to current pace

I had already seen somewhat of a decline in my pace (which was to be expected), but then the month of April came and not only did I find another pace decline but also an overall mileage decline. 🙁 For me personally April was one of the busiest months as far as work was concerned and then to try and motivate myself to run solo after long days at the office or just feeling guilty about how late Mr. H and I would be eating dinner if I ran before cooking for the night. I really have never been an early morning workout person. Pre-pregnancy I faked it for about 6 years with my Tuesday & Thursday 6:00 a.m. weights sessions at Private Training Zone. But when you have a group waiting for you AND you’ve already paid for the sessions it’s easy to get your lazy behind out of bed. During this pregnancy those weights sessions have moved from the a.m. to the p.m. because there is just no will power whatsoever to get up and especially not get up for a solo run. I’m hoping that one day this may change. Fingers crossed.

Back to April, my total mileage came in at a lame 16.96. Talk about a drastic decrease! But you know what?! I may have only gotten out there to run on four different days (one of them being a race), but that’s better than 0 days of running!

It was probably in this month as well that I started noticing when I started my runs that my legs just felt like bricks. And the times when you would dig down deep and pull from your core for a run, nope, that wasn’t really happening anymore. I found myself one day on the treadmill trying to bust out a mile but in the last tenth of the mile I bumped the speed up a couple of notches, got an ache in my stomach and had to stop. I walked at an incline for 5 minutes on the treadmill before it finally went away and I finished out the last bit of that mile at a very reasonable pace. My body just can’t do the things it use to with running. All of this is such a HUGE lesson in constantly listening to your body and not pushing it past its limits. I like to think for the most part I’m doing a pretty good job at obeying it. It’s just a weird combination on run of feeling like your legs are bricks, your mind knowing you really can do this and your body just saying, “Nope, slow it down! We’ve got a baby to look out for!” It is also pretty incredible the protective mode your body goes into!

25 weeks 3 days pregnant at the Running Moms Rock 5K

Being in Texas we should be in a regular stint of just HOT weather, but we have been completely blessed with some amazing weather so far this spring! Don’t get me wrong there have been some hot days, but then a little cold front comes through and we’ve had some mornings in the low 50’s. The weather is just another aspect of this pregnancy that has spoiled me! Regardless, for the past month or so you will NOT find me outside running without at least a handheld water bottle. Staying hydrated and taking care of my lil guy is a high priority to me! Pretty soon if I’m still outside running my camelbak will make it’s glorious return to my runs.

While my numbers might have been down in April and they might not be much better for this month either, but as a whole I’ve put in (according to Runkeeper) 428.4 miles in this pregnancy. I am so very proud of each and every one of the miles! I don’t really have any goals going into the third trimester other than to get runs in when and while I can. And in the times when I can’t run to make sure I’m getting other forms of cardio in as well!

Filed Under: Pregnancy Tagged With: 5k, camelbak, hydration, pregnant, Private Training Zone, Rock 'n' Roll Dallas, runkeeper, running, Running Moms Rock 5K, running while pregnant, weights

#LiAR Does Seattle

May 22, 2014 by Life is a Run · Leave a Comment

Back in March we squeezed in one last trip for Teal & Michael before Teal’s doctor would say it was time to call it quits on traveling by plane. Our husbands actually came up with this trip and figured a lot of it out between the two of them so thanks for taking on that responsibility guys! Thanks to a few of our tweeps that live in Seattle we had quite a list of things to do while there and sadly we just didn’t have the time to do all of them.

We just happened to be in Seattle the weekend that the Sounders had their opening match of the season, which was perfect since both of our guys like soccer and this would be a completely new experience for both of us! Of course, this day Seattle was experiencing a record day of rainfall. We lucked out with seats that had us under an overhang, so we weren’t just drenched the whole time, but don’t worry we still all bought Sounders ponchos that came in handy as we made our trek back to the hotel after the game.

That night we decided to take a recommendation from Guy Fieri and Diners, Drive-ins & Dives by dining at Bizzaro Italian Cafe. It did not disappoint and we were all glad we had it on our list of places to dine while in Seattle. We definitely followed the advice of getting their early so we didn’t have to wait and we didn’t have to wait! If memory serves us correctly between the four of us we tried the Elk Bolognese, Margarita, Gnocchi Cavolifore and The Cow. We started with an appetizer we don’t see listed on the online menu but was delicious! So if you go there maybe you can figure it out. 🙂

On our second full day in Seattle we walked from our hotel over to the Space Needle and opted to go for the combo of Space Needle & Chihuly Garden and Glass tickets. Both were very fun touristy things to do and this day was probably just an all around touristy day for us.

We checked out the EMP Museum that afternoon too before making our way over to the Fremont Troll. We learned later about some other things in that area we should have checked out, but we didn’t so maybe next trip!

Our last full day in Seattle was more touristy things! Of course we had to check out Pike Place Market!

Once at Pike Place Market we were given the recommendation of finding The Crumpet Shop and trying the “Life Changer” as it would in fact change our lives. It was absolutely delicious and we were so glad we listened to that sound advice! So if you are ever in Seattle and a crumpet fix go to The Crumpet Shop. None of us had ever had a crumpet before either so it was an all around new experience for each of us!

Next up we walked over to Bill Speidel’s Underground Tour and took, well, an underground tour of Seattle. It was awesome getting to learn the history of the city since none of us knew it and see where it all really started. The tour guides add their own humor to the tours which really helps liven it up.

After the tour was over we were all HUNGRY and had multiple suggestions of eating at The Crab Pot so we said – fresh seafood? For it! We went with “The Alaskan” to try a bit of everything: King crab, dungeness crab, snow crab, shrimp, steamed clams, Pacific mussels and andouille sausage.

After our late lunch we opted to partially follow through with some advice we had received. 🙂 We were running out of time in the day and had heard a lot of good things about Bainbridge Island. We decided to at least take the ferry out to it and enjoy being out on the water and seeing the views. We happened to be on the ferry that day during “rush hour” if you will. Living here in Dallas with no islands to live on and commute from and really every one drives everywhere it was cool to see other people’s commutes. When we got to the Bainbridge we saw so many people grabbing their bikes and taking off like it was the start of a bike rally or something. Not that we really know what those are like since we are SO not bike people. 🙂

After the ferry ride we HAD to stop off at the gum wall. Who ever would have thought one piece of gum would create something like this? Not that we know exactly how it got started……

We also let the dudes partake in Seattle breweries and pubs while we were there, but since we mainly just sat there, drank our water and watched because we can’t have alcohol we didn’t really commemorate those stops with pictures. 🙂 All around it was a great trip that flew by entirely too fast. There are a ton of other things we wish we could have fit in to that time too, but we should just plan to go back right?!

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: Bainbridge Island, Bill Speidel's Underground Tour, Bizarro Italian Cafe, CenturyLink Field, Chihuly, Chihuly Garden & Glass, Diners Drive-ins & Dives, EMP Museum, Fremont Troll, Gum Wall, Guy Fieri, Pike Place Market, Seattle, Sounders FC, Space Needle, The Crab Pot, The Crumpet Shop