(Belated) Seattle, WA - Part 2

Ok, so I forgot to do the second part of our Seattle visit. This will give me a chance to reminisce. Good thing I keep notes.

Day 8: We got the kayaks off the car for the first time in a long time and launched out onto Lake Union, a part of the channel between Lake Washington and Puget Bay Sound. This was a great day for kayaking and the lake is nice because it is big but it is a no wake zone, so the boats did not disturb us. We saw the police boat stop some personal water craft and told them to slow down. Geoff got a t-shirt from the place that let us use their dock for launching. We had lunch at a Jimmy Johns sandwich store, like the one Geoff's cousin's husband manages in MS. It was delicious.

Day 9: A rainy start to the day and mostly cloudy afternoon, so we took another lazy day. We just went out for Mexican for dinner.

Day 10: Another wonderful, sunny day and we took a ferry ride across the Sound with Ellyn's friend, Moss, from her college days. We went to Keyport, WA to the Naval Undersea Museum to see the Bathyscaph Trieste. Geoff was attached to the Trieste for 8 months while in the Navy, 42 years ago, and it was retired to the museum in 1987. It was a big nostalgia trip for Geoff. We also enjyed the museum, which was very well done and had a lot of submarine and deep sea exploration displays, including an entire control room form a submarine and the second submarine sail, mounted outside the museum, that we have seen on our trip so far. We had lunch and Polish pastries in Poulsbo, WA.

Day 11: We went back into Seattle and visited the Experience Music Project and Sci-fi Museum. They have a great display on Jimmy Hendricks and some props from the TV show, Battlestar Galactica, both the older version and the newer one. They also have a huge video screen where they showed several documentary shows and music videos. We rode the monorail train from the museum to downtown and visited Pike Street Market.

Day 12: Laundry day before going into Canada and stocking up on groceries.

Day 13: Lunch at Ivar's Salmon House, then off to see the fish ladder at the locks. There were fish in the viewing area but we did not see any jumping. We also went by the UW campus so Ellyn could see the old physics building where she spent a lot of time on campus.

Day 14: On the road again north to BC, Canada.