One of our favorite local spots for lunch or dinner on the water is Mukilteo Lighthouse Park where you can eat decent seafood at Ivar's Mukilteo Landing by the ferry dock. When the weather's nice, you can watch people crabbing and fishing on the docks while enjoying your meal on the patio or grab some fish …
Day Trip to Vancouver: Granville Island
We drove to Vancouver for a day with my in-laws and lucked out with the weather--the day kept getting more beautiful and sunny as it went along. We ended our time at Granville Island, and there was so much to see and do, only some of which we were actually able to explore, that I thought it …
Day Trip to Vancouver: Downtown
For our first Labor Day weekend in the Pacific Northwest we headed to Canada with my in-laws. There was no way I was fighting the Seattle traffic during Bumbershoot so it seemed best to head the opposite direction and across the border for a day in Vancouver. We got up early, grabbed breakfast along the …
Woodinville Whiskey Company
Although we've been to Woodinville a couple of times, we hadn't gotten around to popping in the Woodinville Whiskey Company for a distillery tour. We hosted my inlaws for two weeks and an afternoon tour and tasting seemed like the perfect way to kick off our Labor Day weekend! We spent the morning visiting Picnic …
Picnic Point Park
One of the first places Brian took me in Washington when I joined him in late April for a whirlwind weekend of temporary housing hunting was Picnic Point Park in Edmonds. This pretty park has beautiful beach access to the Puget Sound, stunning views of the Olympic Mountains and the added ambiance of trains chugging …
Everett Food Truck Festival
A few weeks ago I came across a Facebook event for the 2015 Everett Food Truck Festival. I tagged it in case we had time this weekend given it was happening a few blocks from our apartment. We've been busy getting ready to move this week, but I thought at the very least we might …
Erin Go Bragh
Ten years ago, I left the country by myself for the very first time. Nothing would ever be the same. I love to look back at pictures, emails and diary entries of my time studying abroad and reflect on how much I grew as a result of that experience. I was, and still am, struck by …
Heather's Compass 