Bucket List #17 | The Container Store

I might be crazy. :) I heard there was a magical land called "The Container Store" in Seattle/Bellvue...I had to go.

To be clear, this isn't unique to the Seattle area. In fact, like many awesome places, they opened one in Salt Lake recently. (They got all the cool stuff after we moved!) But I had never been to one.

The store is pretty much what you'd expect. LOTS of containers!! We had a super good time browsing the aisles full of colorful, interesting boxes, bags, nets, dishes, shelves, etc.

It gave us a ton of good ideas for organization, and made us realize that someday when we finally buy a house, we'll have to set aside some budget to implement some of them!

We put a few things in our cart, but the store was pretty expensive. Ultimately, we decided not to get anything - but we might be doing some Amazon shopping later. ;) Overall, The Container Store was fun but not really earth-shattering. Still glad we went!

Bucket List #23 | Bellvue Temple

Our Seattle bucket list is a list of adventures we're hoping to have while Landon studies at the University of Washington for the next several years. To view all of our bucket list posts, click here.

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When Chelsea came for Thanksgiving, she was generous enough to watch Walt for us one morning while we headed to the Seattle LDS temple.

It was so nice to get away together and have some quiet time to worship and reflect. We really need to work out the babysitter situation here so we can do more of that.

The Seattle temple is pretty in a 70s kind of way. :) Funny enough, it actually looks a lot like the Provo temple, just more square. A fun surprise for us was that they have an original copy of the Book of Mormon on display, along with a piece of the Nauvoo temple.

Random fact: this was our 9th temple together, 13th collectively.  (We've been to: Idaho Falls, Salt Lake, Rexburg, Jordan River, Manti, Provo, Bountiful, and Mesa + Kylie has been to Draper and Palmyra and Landon has been to the Lima temple in Peru)

Even though it was on our bucket list, I'm not going to rate the temple, because the experience to us is sacred. However, I will say that it's a cool building with beautiful grounds, and we had a great time going together!