Road Trip!

November 10th I had the opportunity to travel with Utah Football to Seattle, Washington for their game against the University of Washington.  We left Friday, the day of a pretty bad snow storm in Utah, which left us on the tarmac for about an hour and half waiting to get de-iced.  That was an experience in and of itself.  The trucks with the de-icing fluid ran out half way through and had to go to the other side of the airport to get more fluid, which was just long enough for our plane to re-freeze and have to begin all over again.  When we got to Seattle, we went straight with the equipment guys to Century Link field to set up all we could before the game the next day.  Century Link field is home to the Seattle Seahawks! One of the nicest and best stadiums I have ever been to by far, my pictures don't do it justice.

When we were done with the stadium set up we headed towards our hotel.  We stayed at the Hyatt Bellevue hotel in Bellevue, Washington.  That was pretty entertaining we had two vans we were traveling in. I was in the back van which didn't have a GPS, so we were following the lead car in a city we didn't know at all.  We got lost 3 times, that was very entertaining, particularly with it being a Friday night in downtown Seattle at rush hour.  

 This is what our hotel rooms looked like. The bed was so comfortable!

This is the view from my room, I was on the 15th floor. Lake Washington is in the background behind the shopping malls that were across the street from our hotel.

 This is what our hotel looked like from the outside.
We had some downtime on Saturday morning before we had to go the stadium to finish game prep and the game itself.   We decided to see what Seattle had to offer.

 We of course had to see the Space Needle, but were too cheap to actually pay $25 to ride the elevator to the top, the fact we only had 45 minutes until we had to be back to the hotel in order to catch our ride to the stadium for the game and there was about a 30-40 minute wait to even get on the elevator.

There was a group of people playing what looked like wooden recorders that were right outside of the Space Needle, there were playing songs from all genres including the Beatles! It was great!
We also went to Pike's Market, saw the first ever Starbucks, and saw the famous waterfront.

When we got to the game itself, we had a security guard that was the craziest guy I have ever seen.  Even if we had walked past him 20+ times he ALWAYS asked to see our field pass, he wouldn't even let Coach Whittingham's wife walk past without a pass until one of the other coaches came past and asked why she was still standing there, then left to get Coach Whittingham who was not very happy, and let the security guard know, about being called out for something like that.  We didn't play as well as we could have, but I did have a good experience regardless.
I really enjoyed Seattle, and would really like to go back someday and explore it a little bit more, when I would have more time.