Monday, July 1 packed up, dumped tanks and left the Oregon City Elks RV Park and headed for the Seattle area. Saw these sculptures on the way.
Some beautiful scenery early in the trip with sightings of Mt. Hood, Mt. St. Helens and Mt Rainier! Crossed the Skookumchuck River (whatta name!) Traffic was horrendous and we didn’t arrive at the Lake Pleasant RV Park in Bothell, WA (about 4 miles from Terry and Vicky Webb’s home in Brier) until 5 PM. Exhausted and hot – 93 degrees here which is quite unusual.
July 2 was a rest morning. Grocery shopped then went to Vicky and Terry’s for yummy burgers (I had a Salmon Burger and tasted the Chipolte Black Bean burger, also yum), macaroni salad, huge green salad and brownies for dessert!
July 3, Vicky and Terry picked us up and we drove to downtown Seattle. Was great having a chauffeur who knew where he was going! Parked in a parking building and came up into the Securities Building – a beautiful old edifice.
Street scenes as we made our way to Bruno’s for lunch (an Italian/Mexican restaurant where Terry and Vicky used to eat all the time when they worked in downtown Seattle:
Note the Blue trees. There was live music in this attractive pocket park.
Underground grocery store next to Brunos.
Then we made our way a couple of blocks to Pike Place Market! Wow, what a wonderful place of sights, sounds, and smells!
Brick street and covered sidewalk along the market.
Beautiful flowers atop these buildings.
and a few places to sit and eat your lunch.
Dozens of produce markets, flower vendors, fish and seafood, trinkets, art, wine, ice cream, pastries of every variety, fudge, tees, and the original Starbuck’s store. A pepper work of art!
After going about 4 blocks down one side, we crossed the street to the other side and caught views of Puget Sound and the city from this viewpoint. Beautiful flowers, great area for picnicking and some outdoor vendors.
Waterfront sights: This freeway will be torn down soon as it is sinking into the silt. Will be replaced by a tunnel.
Mt. Rainier and dome.
The flowers were so gorgeous and anywhere from $5 to $15 for beautiful bouquets.
Famous Pike Place Fish Co where the employees yell alot to each other and sometimes through fish around. Didn’t get to see that but certainly a fun place to people watch!
After we were tired from walking, found the car and drove to the Mikilteo Lighthouse and surrounding area.
This is the ferry that goes over to Whidbey Island.
A beautiful waterfront area where people were picnicking, children playing in the sand or on the playground or in the water…and another picture of Mt. Rainier. It is SO huge! And we found wonderful ice cream here, too!
A Farmer’s Market down on the waterfront.
Jerry watches the Blender Bike where you can choose your own smoothie ingredients, for $5 then pedal the blender to mix it. If you want the vendor to bike it smooth, it costs $6!
Terry buys us beets for tomorrow’s dinner.
Then on the way to our place, we pass the Boeing plant, the largest building in the world (by volume.) They build 757 and 787’s here, I think Terry said.
Back at Vicky and Terry’s were were all happy to just sit and read or play on our computers on their lovely, shaded deck. Finally about 8 pm we were hungry and ate chicken hot dogs and salad. A very wonderful, jam-packed day!
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