![Space Needle](https://i0.wp.com/lh4.googleusercontent.com/-vjzHuuUm4JQ/TYktwXV5D2I/AAAAAAAAFsM/YwrVQxetzOU/s800/image1.jpg?resize=600%2C800&ssl=1)
It's so BIG
Matt’s professor and good friend moved to Seattle with his partner, who is one of my good friends, so we packed our bags and dropped in for a visit! As Seattle tends to do it was beautiful and sunny, wooing us in with perfect weather.
We enjoyed a game of Smash Putt in an old warehouse, took the ferry to Bainbridge Island where I bought a lot of yarn, and we walked all over the city enjoying yummy coffee not from Starbucks! My favorite part was visiting the Fremont Troll, who was featured in a couple of the fiction books I had been reading at the time.
![Mini golf](https://i0.wp.com/lh5.googleusercontent.com/-kBSGTsviq3U/TYkt1gONqUI/AAAAAAAAFtw/K5xzm3ZvEhU/s288/image13.jpg?resize=288%2C216&ssl=1)
Smash Putt!
![Ferry](https://i0.wp.com/lh5.googleusercontent.com/-nUuQ67f0p8Y/TYkt9D07H6I/AAAAAAAAFvw/8RDeXxpMjTc/s288/image32.jpg?resize=288%2C216&ssl=1)
Ferry ride back from Bainbridge
![Fremont Troll](https://i0.wp.com/lh6.googleusercontent.com/-0rKsoTrJN28/TYkuID6kv-I/AAAAAAAAFys/olAj_GtPURw/s640/image58.jpg?resize=640%2C480&ssl=1)
Fremont Troll
![Gum](https://i0.wp.com/lh5.googleusercontent.com/--QanddvPn_g/TYkuQu-JDgI/AAAAAAAAF08/9MsGBcFsT14/s400/image79.jpg?resize=300%2C400&ssl=1)
Wall of Gum
![Walk](https://i0.wp.com/lh4.googleusercontent.com/-l4EqvI7YfhE/TYkuLjqMjJI/AAAAAAAAFzk/kP_Slsah2rE/s288/image66.jpg?resize=216%2C288&ssl=1)
Walking to coffee or food or art or coffee
![April](https://i0.wp.com/lh4.googleusercontent.com/-qKGBKTD1JtU/TYkuUDQS59I/AAAAAAAAF18/9c9ZgW8H87o/s640/image86.jpg?resize=640%2C480&ssl=1)
A rousing game of hide in seek at the Olympic Sculpture Park