This past year brought many new adventures. I traveled outside of the country for the first time, I started going on trips without my family, and I traveled all the way to the west coast. This picture is from my trip to Seattle over Christmas. Seattle was a completely different city than I am used to. Normally, I travel to the east coast where all the cities are centuries old, but Seattle is relatively young. The people are also very different than the people on the east coast. I think going to Seattle was a good way for me to become more in tune with the regionalization of our own country and the differences in basic culture between them. Also I got to eat some really good clams!