Seattle in August 2010
Each year in mid-summer I travel to Boise, Idaho, for my Christian Science Association meeting. This year, classmate Jean and I made an after-association trip to Seattle with Robyn to meet her family and see the area. Well, Jean had visited Robyn there before, but I hadn’t.
We only had a couple of days because I had used a lot of my vacation for July’s trip to Israel and Jordan.
The first day (afternoon, really), we drove around some of the neighborhoods in Seattle, seeing how different they are. We were also treated to the Blue Angels streaking overhead and a boat flotilla breaking for home. The pillar water fountain in the pictures is just one I thought looked cool. I would like to have something like that in a house one day, if I get the chance to build my own.
After a dinner out with classmate Gwenn (who also lives in Seattle), Jean, and Robyn’s family (minus one son at camp), we had a cozy night in watching a movie. The next day, Robyn showed us around town, including the famous market (if you look close, you can see I caught a fish or two that were being tossed — and man, the flowers were beautiful, and inexpensive!), the notorious “bubble-gum wall,” and — after grabbing lunch to go — we walked along the harbor area to a peninsula where there’s an outdoor space of the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) where we sat outside and devoured our delicious goodies. Excellent.
We finished the day at the locks (sorry, forgot the name!) and saw some salmon (no pictures of them because inside was pretty dark). The outdoor curly-que sculpture caught my eye, though. On the way back over the river, we waited for a boat that was going down to the lower level, then headed to a dock (wharf?) with a statue dedicated to those who have lost their lives in the trade. The restaurant had a bunch of great pictures of fishermen at work with all their gear.
That night Robyn and Scott cooked a great dinner of salmon and chicken (chicken for me, don’t you know!) and soon it was off to take in the last episode of our movie, then off to sleep.
I had to head out the next day. Thanks, Robyn and Scott, for a great visit. You have fabulous kids (who I’ve heard about for years now but had never met). And thanks Jean, for being such a great travel buddy.
