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After Yellowstone, Justin started driving towards Seattle. That was kind of scary because every time I looked up he was looking at something other than the road and we were in the berm driving 70 down steep winding roads. The view was incredible. The weather was great up until we went into the mountains and then, blam, we were in the snow again. Then on the way down, it was all snow covered then all of a sudden it turned into rain and we were in Seattle. Justin hunted down a lens crafters, having lost his glasses at Yellowstone, and we headed off to get lost for the first time. The first of many. Justin managed to take 2 hours trying on glasses, so we hung out at barnes and noble. After that, we went to Pioneer Square and waited while Justin hunted down his friend, Andy. He didn't have a phone so we tried just going over to his house. He didn't have an intercom either so we were about to leave. I gave the door a little nudge and the door popped open. It was pretty funny when he opened the door and saw four people from ohio. The first thing he said was, "How'd you guys get in here." We spent the night telling stories and learning of places to see in Seattle from Andy and his friend Amy. We ended up sleeping there on his floor. It was nice to have heat for a night. They told us of a place for good breakfast. Good breakfast was 6 egg omelets with unlimited hashbrowns. No human should have the capacity to eat these omelets, they were enormous. We checked out the Fremont Troll after breakfast. It had been made by local artists. We then took a ferry ride across Puget Sound to Bremerton. It was cold, rainy, and windy, but we still stood outside and enjoyed the view. We just got soaking wet. We wandered around near the Olympic Mountains for a while and then came back at night on the ferry. The city lights were awesome out on the water. We found a reservoir to sleep by following andy's direction, it was the wrong one but it worked. The next morning we went to Everett to tour the Boeing Factory. We got to see them building 747s. We were looking down from a catwalk above. When the elevator took us down we realized Justin was gone. We had to go back up but he still wasn't there. He found us at the bottom. He took his own little self-guided tour through the factory. The tour guide loved us. We got back to Seattle and went to Archie McPhee's. It was a store full of interesting JUNK, toothpick dispensers, taxidermy eyes and all kinds of stuff in between. We went back to andy's, took showers, slept in the van and left the next morning.
The Columbia River in Washington
A really lame petrified forest park
I-90 into Seattle, before and after we left the snow
Waiting for Justin to get new glasses
The Freemont Troll
Ferry ride to Bremerton |
