Made a Cool "Discovery" This Weekend

Project 36Smile!

It's really easy to want to be outdoorsy here when the weather is 70 degrees and sunny—like it has been for the past week. It has felt amazing! Honestly, to walk outside and not feel that that initial blast of cold air and need your pea coat, is a great feeling.

Saturday found us at Discovery Park with our puppy! Everyone kept mentioning it to us and how beautiful and expansive it was. When we drove the 15 minutes it took us to get there, we were surprised as to why we had never been there before. It kind of reminded me of one of the many hikes we took through Hana, in Maui. It was very woodsy, lush and green most of the hike. Then we get to one of the best outlooks from the park, seen here:

 Mac enjoying the view as well. 

It really just makes you stop in your tracks, breathe in a deep breath of that clean air and relish where you are. And that's exactly what we did. It felt great to kind of step away from the busy week we had and spend some quality time outside together. Here are my boys :)

Mix up your usual weekend of going to the same restaurant or seeing the newest movie and hike around Discovery Park. Your lungs could probably use some clean air and your legs with thank you for the exercise. Plus, you'll feel better too.

The beautiful weather continued on Sunday. Let me preface this by saying—for those who don't know—since we live in Seattle, our moms are obviously in Houston. So it was kind of weird to not have plans after church to go to a nice restaurant or cook something up for the moms in our lives. You would think we would be getting used to it, since we haven't lived in Houston in almost three years, but nope, it doesn't. Your moms just have a way of never making you forget them :)

So after attending a nice mass at St. Anne's in Queen Anne,  we hopped on our bikes and cruised around for about five hours. We didn't really have a plan as to where we were going or what we were going to do. There was a bike path over by Magnolia that we had driven by a couple of times, so we headed that way.

We ended up riding to Discovery Park again, riding along the trails that led us to Centennial Park, close to downtown. Another park we had yet to visit with gorgeous views of the water and city. It was breathtaking!

Of course, it's a little different than Maui where all you see is just baby-blue water. Here you see baby blue water surrounded by land. The contrast of the places was nice. The fact that we have the experiences to make comparisons still amazes me to this day. Maui. *sigh*

We ended up biking into downtown and had some lunch at Red Robin. Actually pretty delicious food for being a Red Robin. Back home we went after an activity-filled, picture-esque bike ride.


Thank you Seattle for giving us great weather and some amazing places to add to our ever-growing list.  Where to next?


We also ended up skyping with my mom while they were still at my sister and her husband place celebrating Mother's Day. BTW she loved the gift we gave her: it was a photo album from Shutterfly. She absolutely LOVED all the photos and paragraphs that accompanied them. We talked to his mom over the phone as well and she LOVED her canvas printed photo of all of us at our wedding.  I think they had a great Mother's Day.


36Smile! is blog where Sabrina will be writing about, sharing memories, anecdotes and much more that make her smile 365 days of this year! Too often, we are wrapped up in the hustle and bustle of this crazy little thing called life. We should take time out to enjoy the little things that make us smile and celebrate it! The "S" in 36Smile resembles the "5" in 365 days a year.