Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

We are in the Emerald City, Seattle. Tuesday morning we left Centralia and found a wonderful campsite, Lake Pleasant. This is just outside Seattle in the city of Bothell, Wa. It is rated a 5 W in Woodall's. Woodall's is like the king of rating campgrounds. Yes, 5 W's is like 5 stars. It was an easy day and last evening Carmen made a wonderful meal. She had plenty of time to prepare it and so Carmen and Waldo had a lovely pot roast, mashed potatoes, fresh green beans and cucumbers & sour cream .... mmmmmmm!!!.

Wednesday morning found us getting ready to head into the city. We wanted to find the downtown Harley Davidson store. Did that. What traffic though. Then we found the Pike Place Market. Only problem was we could not find parking for the market, so our look was just in passing. From there we went to the Space Needle. The charge to go up was high but we expected that. We used valet parking and wanted to have lunch at the top. Our lunch paid for the ride up and also for the valet parking. The top of the needle was really neat. The weather was overcast so all the photos are not as neat as it would have been had the sun been out. We did enjoy our lunch and the observation deck. The sun came out just after we retrieved our car and headed back to play in Seattle traffic.

From there Nancy wanted to find the first Costco store. No it is not in Kirkland, it is in Seattle. It is huge!!! About the size of 1 and 1/2 of our stores. They really did not have any thing that we don't have in our store, but the overall size was something else. They did have a car wash and the gas station, but no liquor store.

After that we wanted to head home. We tried to get on the expressway but missed the turn. We drove around and found where we wanted and headed out over the bridge to the other side of Pudget Sound and our campsite, but wait we pass really close to another Harley store, maybe they will have light colored shirts??? Yup, they did.

Carmen and Waldo wish you a great day. We certainly had another great one.

1 comment:

Katrina said...

OMG, that is an awesome town, I've never been there nor heard of it!! I'm going to a map to place it right now...

John was so surprised to hear from Lynne about Laura's promotion. Thx for letting them know.

I love all of your pictures and brings back a lot of memories. Mt. St. Helen's is pretty awesome but not as awesome as Ranier. We hiked up to the glacier on that one. Couldn't do that today, for sure!!! It was about 7 miles round trip and I'm afraid of heights. It was truly awesome though!!

Are you going to take that trip down the coast to LA? That is an awesome trip but be sure not to miss the Redwoods and the Sequoias. The Redwoods are easy to see, right on the coast. The Sequoias harder as they are up in the Mt.s but worth it. They are near Kings Canyon.