Hometown Love

Revisiting my Seattle roots:

 

Day One = Ballard

(where I was born and raised until age five)

 

The Locks

The Salmon Ladder

Lots of water

Ship Canal or "boat elevator," where the boats are raised if they're returning to lake water

or lowered if they're heading out to the ocean water of the Puget Sound

Bridges being raised for sailboats

We could have stayed at this place all day, watching the salmon jump and swim through the ladder

or the water rush to raise or lower the boats

Golden Gardens

 

 

My first memories of any beach anywhere are here

We were blessed with gorgeous beach weather, too

The view of the Olympics and sailboats on the Sound can't be beat

So fun to watch my own kids play on the very rocky sand I remember playing on as a kid

 

 

 

Molly Moon's Ice Cream

 

Little sis, Kendra, recommended this spot

Lemon dill, honey lavender, balsamic strawberry

Homemade waffle cones--hooray!

Oh man, so yummy... especially that lemon curd topping

Sadly, they are a local, organic place that we'll never get to eat in Cali