Our day started with a vist by Rebecca Ogle-Davis and her two children, Elias and Sadie. Rebecca is the daughter of our great friends, Ivor & Sally Davis, from Ventura CA.
Rebecca showed us the market and told us all the places to visit and where to eat. She was a mine of information. The Pike Place market is a great experience and the location of the very first Starbucks. A group of musicians was playing at the front of the cafe.
Some of the fruit and vegetable displays of the stalls were amazing.
We said good bye to Rebecca and headed to the Space Needle, built in 1962 for the World Fair. We took the monorail from the centre to the Needle a short five minute ride.
The needle is over 500ft high and the views of Seattle from the top are spectacular. We were given a great display of aerobatics by the Blue Angels, the US Airforce air display team, equivalent to our Red Arrows.
From the Space Needle we had a snack in the Olympic Sculpture Park, where large sculptures are on display. Here is one of a large series of rusty steel plates. I can't say they were to my taste in sculpture!
From the sculpture park we walked to the cruise terminal on Union and Washington Lakes. It was a very enjoyable trip, seeing the house boats and then the palatial mansions of the many billionaires who live in Seattle including Bill Gates of Microsoft. Here are a few photos from the trip.
A final photo as we came back to the terminal of the Seattle skyline.
Tomorrow we head for the Canadian boarder just south of Vancouver and then about a hundred miles to Whistler, the sight of the 2010 winter Olympics.
We are so glad that you enjoyed your stay at the hotel
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