Our Day in Seattle

We had such a FULL day in Seattle I couldn't even keep my eyes open to write on my blog. We did the "touristy thing". I'm not too keen on doing that but when you only have one day to see a city you do what you need to do. The only other time when we did a one day sprint to see a city was when we were in New York City for the day in 2001.

We started the day Riding the Duck. It is a vehicle that goes on land and on sea. If you look closely to the picture you can see a Duck swimming in the waters with the Seattle skyline in the background. It took us through town, around the city, and out on Union Lake for a wonderful tour of the city from all angles. We even got to see the house boat that Sleepless in Seattle was filmed on.

After the duck tour we went up into the Space Needle and had lunch. The Space Needle rotates 360 degrees and takes about 48 minutes for a full rotation. So while we were sitting at our lunch table we were getting the FULL view of all of Seattle. It was an incredibly beautiful day and we recommend it to anyone visiting Seattle. We also recommend the Bread Pudding, it was the best I'd ever eaten.

Our next adventure was one that only Darren and I enjoyed. While on the Duck our Captain "Chip Ahoy" told everyone that the crab boats from the show Deadliest Catch, Wizard and Northwestern, were docked across the way. Darren and I ventured out to find the boats from our favorite TV show. It took some searching but we finally eyed the Wizard. I eyed it. We took pictures of it as if it was a movie star. This was fun for us. We set out to find the Northwestern but we were not successful. In our search Darren asked a gentleman that we saw walking on one of the docks if he knew where it was parked. We discovered from our new found friend, Bob, that he was a Captain of a crab boat as well. North Sea was his boat and after talking to him for some time he invited us on his boat for a tour. We got to go on a crab boat. (This is Darren and I doing the happy dance)

In the evening we grabbed Linda and got her out for the Underground tour of Seattle. This tour was recommended by several people but I'm not sure why. It wasn't anything too fascinating. I'm not recommending this one to any one.

I just want to say that we got rain today. Seattle rain. Their rain is a lot like Hawaii rain, a misty rain. This rain is nice. I was glad to get rain because frankly I wasn't believing anyone about the weather rumors of the Northwest. We have been getting the best weather on our travels, even record breaking sunny or warm days in most places. I just wanted different weather than hot and dry and I wasn't seeing a big difference. So I welcomed the rain and enjoyed being out in it.

We are slowly ending our vacation and we should be home by Friday so there won't be much more to say about our travels but we have a Hellgate Jet Boat ride tomorrow I'll let you know all about it.
Night. Night.