Labor Day Is For Camping And Getting Out Of Town With Friends!

This Labor Day Weekend we blended both the Seattle club and the Vancouver B.C. club and we took over a private campground just for our E&A crew. It was a blast to have the campground just for us. We had all the spots alongside the creek (the best spots) and we had a big bon fire and made  Reeses peanut butter Smores …Truly wonderful. We all pitched in and made some great meals, It was just a amazing time. In addition to enjoying the campout we had a number of things planned for the weekend as well.  We took a group out on a Killer/Orca Whale watching tour, We hiked in a few great spots near our camp site and we took a tour of a Museum that has the finest collection of electronic devices in the U.S. And actually got a chance to step into a Faraday cage that was hit with 4 million Volts! What a great weekend!
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Jumping Out Of A Perfectly Good Airplane......

On the bucket list of so many is jumping out of a perfectly good airplane. SKYDIVING!

It’s also one of the things that can be so hard to get yourself to do. Sometimes it takes gathering up yourself, getting in a group of friends and just saying “what the heck..I’m doing it” If you have never done it, it's not hard to believe just how hard it can be to step into a plane and take off knowing that the only way down now is out the door at 10,000 feet or more. 

You almost have to tell yourself to NOT listen to the voice in your head that is getting louder and louder saying “ WHAT ARE YOU DOING” and just think of something else … like a shopping list or what’s in your Amazon wish list or anything to keep your mind off the idea that you are soon going to be free falling out of a plane. Then once you DO actually get out of the plane it’s so amazing. And you want to get back in the plane and do it again. Events and Adventures Seattle

An Amazing Cooking Class/Party!

We just did a cooking class/party event that a bit hard to describe … But I’ll give it a try. To start off with it’s not in a downtown area or even a commercial setting. It’s in a private home on Mercer Island. When you first get there you are brought into the this nicely decorated living room area and offered wine and apps while waiting for everyone to show up. Next after a round of introductions our chief and host Anita (a wonderful person that’s originally from Sweden) breaks us into smaller groups to make parts of the full meal.  It’s a fun time of chatting, tasting and preparing for a great meal. Then when we have all done our different parts we sit down to an amazing meal. This day it was out in the covered courtyard and we had Paella as well as 6 other Spanish inspired dishes.

The food was good, the atmosphere was great and so was hanging out and meeting a bunch of folks I now call friends. Events and Adventures Seattle

We Love To Hike Here In The Northwest!

Our group is pretty diverse when it comes to our events. We do indoor and outdoor events, we do theater shows and crazy adventure activities, we do cocktail mingles and beer festivals and so much more. It’s true even within specific kinds of events … like our hikes. We hike in all seasons and all kinds of weather, at the beach or in the mountains and just about everything in between.

In just this past month alone we have been to the North Cascades to hike the Scott Paul trail and to Deception Pass Area to hike and go rappelling. We also hiked on the edge of Lake Washington to Saint Edwards State Park and out on the Olympic Peninsula to hike Mont Zion. We are lucky to live in such a beautiful area! Events and Adventures Seattle

Overnight BIGFOOT Hunt!

I suppose that no matter where you live there is some folklore at could be fun to check out. And in the Pacific Northwest, nothings bigger than BIGFOOT!

Just recently we took a group out for an overnight Bigfoot hunt. We had a Naturalist and Bigfoot expert lead us out in the wilderness where in the past 10 years there has been 16 sighting of Bigfoot and one just a week before we headed out there.

It was a fun and playful outing with some very cool highlights. One was the 2^nd tallest train bridge in the US. It was over 800 feet up and luckily it’s no longer used.  The other cool thing was when our guide took us on a late night hike deep into the woods and had us turn off our lights and sit as quietly as we could for 15 mins.  After just 15 mins. the forest creatures that stopped as they heard us moving, assume we have gone and continue doing whatever there were doing. It was very cool and a fun adventure. Events and Adventures Seattle

Imagine Being Transported Back To The Moulin Rouge in France

 You might have dressed up rather nice and taken in a show, dined on a wonderful gourmet meal and had been entertained by international performers. Well we recently did (without having to leave Seattle).  Our E&A group took in Teatro Zinzanni!
If you have not seen this show …you should   when you walk in to the lobby it seems like a very grand  old world circus tent , velvet covered ceilings and beautifully carved wood make you feel like you have stepped into another world. The staff is all dressed up in their finery and escort you into the Spiegaltent (it’s German for mirrored tent) where the show and your five course meal is served.  We had great seats up close and right in the action,  the performance is done in the round as well as interactive, so if you have stage fright, oh well, you may get over it here. There were amazing acrobats, music and comedy. We enjoyed the contortionist/dancer, she worked the hula hoops!  And the trio of French acrobats was AMAZING. The MC who is Aussie was hilarious and the list of international talent goes on. All in all it was great food, great show and with fun folks.  I call that a fun night out! Events and Adventures Seattle

We Found A Perfect Day For A Hike!

We hiked up Icicle Ridge, that’s just above the town of Leavenworth WA. Don’t let the name fool you. It’s an excellent early season hike that offers us what we have been missing during the winter: a good time in the sun (this being the sunny side of the Cascades, a bountiful array of wildflowers, and stunning views of Icicle Canyon and the Wenatchee and Icicle rivers and surrounding mountains.
And with relatively little pain - an 1,800 foot gain in 2.5 miles as opposed to the neighboring Fourth of July trail that also leads hikers to a higher point on Icicle Ridge in a grueling 4,300 vertical foot march. We will be back again and again.

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