We were in Seattle over the weekend for my company's employee appreciation party. The bulk of the company is located in the Pacific Northwest with the Albuquerque office sort of an outlier. The company paid for an employee and guest to fly to Seattle and for one night in a hotel. We got in around 1 pm yesterday and our flight out this morning was at 11 am. Maybe next year, if we can sort out the babysitting, we'll be able to go for 2 or 3 days.

I loved Seattle and really hope to visit again with more time and better weather. Everyone we met from Seattle was super friendly and helpful. I actually sort of liked the rain just because it's unusual to get that type of rain in NM. We usually get our rain in short, intense thunderstorms. We didn't get to do as much as we wanted though since the weather was so bad - not just rainy but windy as well. We had planned to walk to the Sculpture Park but we mostly just wandered around the Pike Place Market. We found a bar with a view of the water and hung out for awhile drinking local beer.

#1 - This what I wore on the plane, to wander around PIike Place Market and for the party. The party was business casual and the information said no jeans or tennis shoes. There were people much more dressed up than me, but there were many more at this level of casual. I was really glad I had flat shoes on since there wasn't enough places to sit and I ended up standing most of the night.

#2 - Here's the back of the sweater which I didn't get a picture of while on. I normally don't like anything with a southwest motif (the sweater was a gift) but I really like this one and part of that is because of the interesting back.

#3 - at Pike Place Market. I'm wearing the black leather backpack I posted about earlier and it worked well. I don't have a picture from the back or side though.

#4 - What I wore today for the trip home. I wore the same green jacket as in pic #3.