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West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby Life + Design :: West Coast Tour

If you caught my last blog post I've had some exciting changes in my life as of recent. Even better, I got to kick off my new life adventure with nearly a month on my favorite coast! It was so wonderful to be home to relax and regroup a little, all without having my departure looming over my head. Somehow the month still flewwww by but I did get some quality family time in, which I SO needed! Here are some of the highlights of my trip!

Portland

I kicked off my west coast tour in one of my favorite cities with some of my absolute favorite people -- the PERFECT combo!

Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour

It's always so much fun visiting Portland! I may have only lived there for a year, but it always brings back great memories.

Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour

Little Duck and I put our walking shoes on and had such a fun adventure! It's probably good we walked a lot too because we followed our amazing breakfast with donuts and cupcakes. #NoShame. Okay, well we saved the donuts for later, but hey, when in Portland enjoy the food!

Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour

After an awesome day. We united with our other lovely ladies and enjoyed a fun night out! We checked out a delicious little Italian spot in the Pearl District that was dishing up some seriously good bites and then we headed to the Nutcracker! The last time I had seen the Nutcracker, Little Duck probably wasn't even up to my shoulder in height, so you know it has been a LONG time! It was such a nice holiday treat and I'm so thankful that the Hardersens invited me to join them! 

Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour

For our last day in the city, we visited my all-time favorite Portland spot, Pine State Biscuits! Nom, nom, nom! Followed by some shopping at some seriously cool home stores including City Home -- LOVED this place!

Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
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Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour

Enumclaw

After our amazing trip in Portland, we headed back north! My mom recently moved back to my hometown so it was so wonderful to break in the new digs! We hosted the whole fam for Christmas and it was a great time catching up with everyone!

Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour

We even got a little bit of a *White Christmas*! Barely, but enough to say we did ;-) After Christmas I worked quite a bit, which doesn't make for that exciting of blog posts buttt I did capture this work-from-home day with my dad! We have matching hats because we're cool like that.

Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour

Fast forward a little bit and Chris headed west for a visit. Almost as soon as he arrived, we headed up north to Vancouver B.C. for a little getaway.

Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour

Vancouver, B.C.

I've been wanting to visit Vancouver B.C. for awhile so we decided to finally make it happen! Surprisingly, even though it's only about 3 hours away, I'd never been so it was some new scenery for the both of us.

Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour

Normally I'd do a lot of research on visiting a new city, but for this trip we kind of winged it by just booking a hotel and some great suggestions from a friend.

Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour

If there's two takeaways I have from our visit.. it is that Vancouver people are some of the friendliest I've ever met and man is the city beautiful! 

Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour

Seattle

Following our Vancouver trip, we also made a trip up to Seattle. Aww, love this city so much.

Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour

It may have been a little chilly, but the day was gorgeous so we hit up Alki Beach. I just love the views over there.. oh and the donuts weren't bad either!

Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour

We also checked out an Oregon Ducks bar for our bowl game. The bar was a lot of fun and it was awesome to see so many Ducks fans in Seattle. The game ended up being an epic bust though sooo we'll just skim over that fact!

And Back to Enumclaw!!

For the rest of my trip I mostly stayed local for some more family time and a few Seahawks games! Plus I got to be home for my mom's birthday (the first one since I was 18) soooo that was really nice too! 

Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour
Anna Osgoodby NYC Living :: West Coast Tour

It was such a great trip, although still somehow not long enough! I think being home so long almost threw me off in a weird way! If plans had to get pushed around I was thinking, "oh no problem, we'll get together later" and then poof! Suddenly there wasn't time for later. So to those I didn't see, or see enough of. I'll be home again soon! :)