The start of a great Mother's Day Weekend!

A better weather weekend could not have been planned for this Mother’s Day…. It’s perfect for a visit to Seattle… Yup, the family surprised me with a stay at the Westin. We were already scheduled to attend the “DreamBuilders Ball”, an event to raise money (think AUCTION) for the Virginia Mason Foundation at the Westin. It’s always a beautiful event and our friend Darren’s biggest fundraiser of the year. He does a beautiful job putting this together… has all the right people in place.  Anyway, they made a weekend of it... Lucky me!

Anyway, back to me… We arrived last night... the city was a bustling… NOT like last week when the ‘anarchist’s’ were making a mess out of downtown…. Checked in and then walked around this end of town. Dinner was at 6:30 at Pasta Freska in the Lake Union area... no menu… just fun people and a fun meal with SIX courses (they are not huge, thank heavens, but definitely you do not leave hungry) and two bottles of vino. The owner/chef was friendly and stopped and chatted quite a bit. Got back to our room around nine, and well, the food and the wine... made for a quiet, sleepy evening... and that was perfectly okay with all of us!
Our room is on the 31st floor so we have a view of the city and water and even the Olympics. The Northwest cannot be beat!   The Olympics at Sunset... The Olympics at Sunrise...