Seattle and MLS Cup Championship Game 2009

this past weekend garretts whole family (excluding his parents) and i borrowed my grandpas 12 passenger van and drove to seattle. the purpose of the trip was to go to the MLS cup championship game that real salt lake played in (more on that in a bit). we left friday night after work and drove through the night, got to seattle at about 10 am seattle time, saw the sights in seattle the rest of saturday and sunday morning, went to the game, ate yummy pizza in our MOTEL room, went to sleep and drove home all day monday after repairing the van window that jj's head went through (no permanent damage done). it was a whilrwind weekend but lots of fun! p.s. garrett and i LOVED seattle, it is so pretty there! here is a glimpse into the weekend...

SEATTLE!!!

the LONG drive

in and around pikes place market-

the famous space needle, of course.

the whole clan eating dinner at the revolving restaurant
- sky city -
at the top of the space needle.
very expensive food and know that if you are going there you are paying for the experience. in my opinion the food was not great (i don't like fish though), but the experience was worth it, and the service was great.

seattle by night - on top of the space needle
thanks to husband for this picture as i was sleeping inside on the table since i had been up for about 22 hours at that point.

one of the highlights of the trip was this place called snoqualmie falls, they were huge and so misty! in this first picture you can see a little resort that looks over the falls and the river, garrett and i are determined to get back there for a anniversary or something and stay there.

we stopped by to look at the seattle, washington temple. here are some pictures of the temple and, in my humble opinion, some of the prettiest surrounding temple grounds i have seen. it is so green there, and there are so many huge trees full of color and life. they have this little area off to the side that is like a little mini forest with tucked in benches to sit on and an arch made out of trees. simply gorgeous.

real salt lake are the MLS cup champions 2009!

end regulation
real salt lake 1 - 1 la galaxy
penalty kicks
real salt lake 5 - 4 la galaxy

it was so exciting to be there and made the 13 hour trek well worth it! hopefully this will mean good things for the team and they will get even more support from the good citizens of utah!



the game, and the beautiful stadium:
we were up there, but i would say our seats were pretty great. we could see the whole stadium, the whole field, and had a great view of the city.

we win! we win! so happy. as you can see by garretts attire he was conflicted because he is such a big beckham fan. but i am here to say that he was genuinely excited and happy for rsl.

some of garretts friends who are also big real fans drove up for the game as well.
we met up with them for a quick picture.

back home in sandy at the celebration rally at rio tinto staduim

ole ole ole ole real salt lake
ole ole ole ole real slat lake
ole ole ole ole real salt lake...
until next year!