Mike and Pat

Mike and Pat
Us with Maximus our dog and Socrates one of our cats is in the background

Saturday, July 18, 2015

July 17, 2015 Trip to Seattle and Pike Place Fish Market

Friday, July 17, 2015 Trip to Seattle and Pike Place Fish Market

We left at 10 am with a 45 min drive into Seattle.  We found the market without a problem.  Parking is expensive.  If anyone goes get there before 9 am and it is cheaper.  The market place was CRAZY!!!  There were so many people that it took us 3 hours to go from one end to the other.  Lines were long.  We did finally get to see the tossing of fish.  It draws a big crowd and everyone loves it.   We did buy some Dungeness crab cakes for dinner tonight.  I did find a vegetable that I haven’t seen before.  It was an Italian broccoli.  We then found a fruit that was new.  It was called a Rainier Cherry (wonder were they got that name) and it tasted almost like a peach and cherry mixed.   There were plenty of samples and most of them were real good.  There is plenty of food for everyone to taste.  I saw French, Russian, Turkish, Mexican and a whole lot more.  It is a very unique place.  We also saw the very first Starbucks.

On our way back to the campground the boys wanted to show us some old trains that they had seen.  They also saw a park that they wanted to check out.  As it turns out it was called Snoqualmie Falls Park and on this property was a waterfall.  This waterfall generates electric power for the region.  It was a very nice waterfall and we didn’t have to hike a few miles to see it. 
On our drive we were able to catch a glimpse of Mt. Rainier.  This was a very majestic mountain with its snow caps.  It is hard to believe that it is July and the temperature was in the 80’s and we can still see snow.
 
Our dinner was great.  The crab cakes were very good.  We played our favorite game and the boys are still leading 25-18.  Time is closing in on us.  Jeff and Amy are down to 9 days before we part ways.  We will part company after we finish with Yellowstone.  They are going to Grand Tetons and we are going to Glacier National Park.

Tomorrow we head towards Yellowstone but we will spend the night at a Walmart in Utah to break up the long trip and of course to put another state on our map.  I don’t think that I mentioned it but we have to spend a night in our motor home before we can add a new one to the map.  We will see the Rockies tomorrow. 

Mt. Rainier in the background

Enough flowers for everyone $5 a bunch

Octopus anyone?

Italian Broccoli Romonesco

this is actually gum on the walls-----gross


My friends the clowns

Look up it is a fish in the air

Ferris Wheel

Original Starbucks

Pretty Iron Work

Parade of clowns

Space Needle

Snoqualmie Falls

Train that is a snow blower

really old train

some more old trains

Some man's castle at Duthie Hill, Sammamish,WA

Rainier Cherries






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