East Coast Eason's: Cousin Blaine visits Seattle!!

Blaine flew SOLO all the way from Nashville, Tennessee to Seattle, Washington to come visit us for a whole week! We were sooo excited!! I had been preparing Brock for over a week for Blaine's visit, but I guess he was still just a bit surprised as this is how close he would only get to Blaine on Day One. :) After the first day, he definitely warmed up!

Pioneer Square

Since Brent could only take a few days off during Blaine's visit, the first full day he was here I thought Brock and I would introduce him to the history of Seattle first. We booked tickets on the Underground Tour so he learned all about how Seattle was originally built below sea level and how the first batch of Thomas Crapper's "crappers" didn't pan out so well with the tides of Puget Sound.

Too bad he didn't bring his bathing-suit that day!

Solar flowers under the Space Needle that light up the area at night

Then we walked around the Space Needle, Key Arena, and the International Fountain while Brock napped a bit in the stroller. Blaine also got to see a few of the "Ride the Ducks" amphibious vehicles. He said no thank you for touring on those.

On Friday, Brent was able to take off from work so we all headed down to the legendary Pike Place Market. It was crowded as usual, but we managed to purchase some vegetables and seafood for that evening's dinner!

We couldn't pass up an opportunity to check out the Gum Wall while we were there too! Poor Brent was all nerves trying to stop Brock from picking up the "memorabilia" on the ground and the wall. :)

Trying to get a cute picture of a toddler posing with someone else is impossible

Mostly we just hung out and watched the FIFA World Cup... or Major League Baseball.... or the College World Series. Oh my.... did I just get a snapshot of what life is going to be like with Brent AND Brock in a few years?? :)

Brent and I thought it imperative to take Blaine to the Microsoft store at the Bellevue Mall. And since we were there.... we had to check out the Tesla! Yes, Brandi, that is your son in the driver's seat of a $90,000 vehicle.

More hanging out at the house before our big day on Monday. Blaine and Brock were so cute together playing cars!

Monday we had a very busy day! First we stopped by Renton's community center pool. I tried explaining to Blaine that it wasn't a "water park" per se... just a bigger pool with slides and a lazy river. It's no Nashville Shores. :) And somehow even though it wasn't so sunny and we were there for less than two hours, I still managed to get a slight sunburn on my shoulders. Oh yes, that's right - they haven't seen sun in almost two years.

Blaine went so fast down the water slide, I couldn't get a picture until he had already surfaced!

Brent was the exact opposite and he was pushing himself down the slide trying to continue moving!

Monday night we had tickets to the Seattle Mariners baseball game versus the Boston Red Sox! And Felix was pitching!!

I think Blaine had a great time sitting and watching the game with his Uncle Brent!! The Mariners did really well that night - winning the game with a score of 12 - 3.

Brock had other plans for his baseball outting...

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