GOOOAAAAL

This last weekend, we got away on a weekend escape to Seattle--our main goal (no pun intended) was to watch the MLS Cup being hosted there on Sunday night. Only slightly less important was a weekend getaway for (relatively) new parents who had yet to have a weekend to themselves since joining Club Anna. My wife, Nicole, and her husband Karl also came to take in the game and as an added bonus, acted as our exclusive tour guide to Seattle (Nicole having grown up there).

We took off on Saturday, Mom with fears of sad baby eyes and tears. I should have known better. Grammy and Poppy Wells came for the weekend to babysit, and Anna was so excited to see them, I don't think she even noticed when we left without her (and in fact, only tolerated a minimal amount of goodbye hugs and kisses before demanding to go back to Grammy). Such is the way of spoiled grandchildren.

Saturday night we walked down to the pier and had an amazing dinner at Anthony's (despite the waiter jokingly asking if he could possibly bring us any *more* food, after we ordered 3 entrees...in our defense, one of them was actually an appetizer that we split...the king crab was fresh ;o). Sunday we walked down to Pike's and introduced Tim to all the goodies of the public market, caught some lunch, hit Trader Joe's (omg) and then went to the game.


It was an awesome game. We got to see everything you could ask for: nice footwork, goals on both sides, penalty kicks...David Beckham's glutes. Even better, I personally got everything I was rooting for: Real Salt Lake won, Donovan--my least favorite player--shot for the moon with his penalty kick (decidedly nowhere near the goal), and Beckham, for once, looked like a gentleman when he made the losing team come back for the MLS Cup trophy ceremony. Thankfully, despite the dire reports from the weather people, we didn't get rain...just rather frigid temperatures that made the extortionist selling hot cocoa in the stands for 4 bucks a pop look like a philanthropist.

Overall, a great weekend. We packed our luggage full of all of our Trader Joe's goodies (literally, this is the only reason we brought a bag to check...so we could haul back their awesome dressing and two buck Chuck). When we got back, Anna was happy to see us...but even happier with the Seattle Sounders bear we brought back for her, which is now sleeping in her crib with her. Even better, we got to remember what it was like to be DINKs for a weekend--which was enough to last us for a while...we were happy to return to Club Anna.