Experiencing Top Pot

If you ask Harrison what his favorite foods are, we is quick to reply, "Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and donuts."

Not good, I know, but he's four and we are working on him.

Recently the children and I were watching The Travel Channel and a program came on about the best donut shops in America. Of course, knowing that it would especially interest our little Hair Bear, we had to watch. To our surprise, one of the donut shops featured was Seattle's own Top Pot Donuts. We had eaten their donuts at Starbucks, but never visited the store. Through the program we learned about the two founders of the company, the architecture (the designer of the original building was also the architect who designed the Space Needle) , and of course the "handforged" uniqueness of their specialty donuts.

As an educator, I couldn't pass up an opportunity for a field trip...nothing like hands on learning. So after watching the new president being sworn in on Tuesday, we headed to Seattle to check out Top Pot for ourselves.

Jackson had the Inauguration Donut and Harrison opted for the Pink Boa.

Ken and Kennedy shared a couple different varieties while we ordered the plain cake donut for Mikey.

The sign originally read, "Topspot" but on the way to have the sign refurbished, the "S" fell off, leaving it "Top Pot." The kiddos thought this was too funny.