Mary's place is beautiful — comfortable, clean, fully stocked with all the kitchen ware and supplies, towels, hangers (walk-in closets), you name it, a large group could need. There are also baskets of toys and videos in the living room and a separate storage area on the ground floor with additional items like a high chair and gates to place above and below all staircases, if needed.
This last find was a pleasant surprise. There were 10 of us staying at the house, ranging in age from 5 to 75, but we also had visitors with a 2-year-old who came and went during our time there — and those gates served all of us very, very well.
We used the grill on the balcony off the living room for one delicious meal and could walk to a wide assortment of terrific places to eat for others. Mary's house is in a great neighborhood — Fremont — where you can walk to just about any kind of place you need or want (we didn't get a chance to walk to the Woodland Zoo, only a half-mile away, but one of us did go past it on her morning run).
Mary's Welcome Book fills you in on many of the highlights of Fremont. We were there for a wedding at the Fremont Foundry, and we also had easy access to other Seattle attractions like the Space Needle, the water front, etc.
The only thing we didn't have was time to stay longer than the Labor Day weekend. We loved every minute we were there.