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North America » United States » Washington » Seattle July 31st 2014

Started the day off at the Space Needle climbing 520 ft to the top in an elevator. Skies were bright and clear so many great views. Blue Angels gave us a real show with a 4 team formation and a 2 team formation buzzing near us for a long time. Then headed over to the Chihuly Exhibit which is an incredible array of blown glass sculptures - hard to imagine the skill and talent required to make these. Headed to an Underground Tour in the Pioneer Square area to see the city that lived below the streets for a time after the great fire in the 1880s - creepy and cool at the same time. Topped the day off with a night visit to the Space Needle to see the beautiful lights of the city and ... read more
Space Needle
Space Needle
Space Needle

North America » United States » Washington » Seattle July 30th 2014

As it turns out today started Seafair in Seattle which includes Navy vessels at the harbor and Marine equipment at the Museum of Flight. The Museum of Flight is on Boeing Field and includes an incredible number of exhibits from the Wright Brothers to World War I and II to Air Force One and a space shuttle training vehicle. The Marine equipment included tanks, helicopters, and a special showing by the Blue Angels. At sunset we headed back to town and the harbor to go sea kayaking in Elliot Bay. We got to maneuver around 2 Navy vessels and headed north toward the large grain silos along the shore. We watched the sun set over the Olympic Mountains and then cast an orange glow over Seattle and Mt Rainier. Really a great day to be out ... read more
Museum of Flight
Museum of Flight
Museum of Flight

North America » United States » Washington » Seattle July 29th 2014

We stayed in town today to do a couple of our City Pass tours. Headed out on the Argosy cruise of the harbor seeing the waterfront area, learning a bit more about the history of cruise ship tourism which is relatively new to Seattle, the 1962 World Fair which brought the Space Needle to life, the massive amount of grain that is exported from this area to the Pacific, the Coast Guard and Navy presence, the massive ferry system which can take up to 2000 cars each way to Bainbridge Island, and the advent of the Pikes Place Market when produce prices were soaring. After our boat tour we headed to the Seattle Aquarium where they had many varieties of fish, jellyfish, squid, sharks, seals, sea otters, and the cute puffin. Boys went for a swim ... read more
Argosy Harbor Cruise
Argosy Harbor Cruise
Argosy Harbor Cruise

North America » United States » Washington » Seattle July 24th 2014

Sean has truly enjoyed the last 2 days filled with baseball. Today we did a tour of Safeco field in the morning seeing all of the behind the scenes stuff including the press box, the owners box, and the field. After the tour we headed back into town to the EMP (Experience Music Project) Museum - wow. This is really an eclectic place - Jimi Hendrix tribute, Nirvana tribute, Sci Fi and Horror film tributes, an enormous tower of guitars, an enormous screen showing all sorts of music videos and highlights, and a floor where you can experiment with instruments, vocals, and mixing music. And the topper for the day was our second baseball game - Mariners vs. Orioles with an unfortunate loss of 4-0. Sean got Chris Davis of the Orioles to throw him a ... read more
Safeco Tour
Safeco Tour
Safeco Tour

North America » United States » Washington » Seattle July 23rd 2014

Today was a great day for a baseball game at a stadium with a retractable roof. It rained for a good part of the day and we were fortunate enough to have tickets to the 12:40pm game between the Seattle Mariners and the NY Mets. The game was a slow one with the Mets winning 3-2. Sean was happy to get yet another baseball hat and watch the game he loves - no matter where we are on vacation. The boys decided to hit the gym and then the pool at the hotel before we headed off to an Irish Pub along Lake Union and then a drive around the Lake to see the University of Washington, house boats, and sailboats along the lake.... read more
The Hat Decision
Safeco Field
Robinson Cano

North America » United States » Washington » Seattle July 21st 2014

Five hour flight to Seattle from Philadelphia. Beautiful and sunny when we arrived. Settled into our room and then headed off to Pike Place Market for lunch. Walked past the"original" Starbucks location and strolled thru the marketplace. Belt buckle vendor caught the eye of the boys and both walked away with one. Sean got a seahawk and Drew got a native american eagle. Boys hung out at the hotel pool for a while, we hung out looking at the lake, and then we headed off for a quick pizza before passing out.... read more
Sailboats on Lake Union
Pike Place Market
Belt Buckles

North America » United States » Washington » Seattle July 7th 2014

The drive to Seattle from Astoria is diminished somewhat by the overcast weather which makes everything look pretty dull. We take the I-5 for speed though a more scenic route goes up along the coast. As we get half way to Seattle (near Tacoma), the traffic seems to get heavier and doesn’t ease up. We eventually get to the infamous approach to the City and get onto the Seattle spaghetti junction which we would not have been able to navigate without the ipad GPS system. It was a bit harrowing at times switching lanes at short notice. So if you are relying on a map and are new to this place there’s a 100% chance you will get lost! We eventually make it to the City Hostel, in Belltown, just next to downtown, where we’d pre ... read more
Pike Place Market
Downtown
Dungeness Crabs - Pike Place

North America » United States » Washington » Seattle June 30th 2014

heres some pics of our outing today.....we moved our tubs of clothes into the bedroom we are staying in and after a breakfast of pancakes...we hit the road to see seattle downtown..we just had to.....so we only drove around a bit..went to see the space needle and pikes place today..afterwards we were so very tired....we just came on back home...we stopped by a grocery store we found in issiqua.....wanted to make dinner as a thank you for our hosts....and things are cheaper outisde downtown..and the famous market of course....so anyway..heres some pics....... read more
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North America » United States » Washington » Seattle June 27th 2014

We spent the day in Seattle before embarking on a ship to Alaska. Two things that must be seen, that are not part of the normal sight-seeing adventures, are the Bubblegum Wall and the Troll Under the Bridge, aka the Freemont Troll. After landing, we took the Light Link to our hotel. That, in itself, is very different than anything I have ever experienced. First, you have to prepay you trip, then we got off, had to walk about a block to catch a bus, and that dropped us off about 1 block from the hotel. After all was said and done, it cost only $5 for both of us, as opposed to $40 for each to catch a shuttle bus. After that, we were off to see some sights. First stop, the Space Needle. It ... read more
Lumberjack Kathy
Lumberjack Dean
Bubble gum wall




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