Freemont Troll to the Seattle Mariner Game

After a full day of touring downtown Seattle, Markel and Patric took me out to a local attraction.  It's called the Freemont Troll.  It's getting more and more attention because it has been in a few movies, but it is not located down town and the locals want to keep it quiet - for themselves.  

I have to admit, it is quite impressive, and inspiring.  The story is that someone created this troll to protect the neighborhood from anything bad.  The neighborhood is an older one by nature - the hedges were 10-12 feet tall.  The troll is carved out of sand and concrete under the overpass of a highway.  We drove over it!  Without knowing about it, someone would just drive on not knowing there is something special just below.  If you look closely you can see there is a beetle car under the left hand.    We sent Patric up first to get his photo taken.  Then Markel, and then me.  It was super fun, plus it has been filmed in movies.  

From there we drove back into the city to go to the Seattle Mariners gave vs the Los Angeles As.  We ended up parking farther away to get free parking.  Markel has a spot she always parks at.  She allowed plenty of time to walk there, so we ended up getting to the game early. This gave us plenty of time to to souvenir shopping - well looking, and get refreshments.  Everyone said, "You have to get the garlic fries."  They were right, these garlic fries are so delicious!!  This game was Soooo fun, but what made it even better is that Markel is such a fan of baseball and we were at the game together.  Although, Markel is not a Mariner fan (how strange is that).  We had seats in the third section up, which was fantastic because we could see everything.  Markel and I were really into the game and we had a blast cheering for the game plays.  Patric was more into his phone at this time... after all we had kept him busy all day.  

The Garlic fries were delicious

In the end - the Mariner's beat the As - GO MARINERS!!!!!