Wednesday, 12 August, West Seattle
We enjoyed the morning with coffee and watching the view of the Sound, Vashon Island Ferry, and Vashon Island from their window. We had a lovely morning visiting with Ken and Barb and catching up With all that has been going on with them, their children, and grand children. Then, sadly, it was time for us to go.
We wanted to go over to Discovery Park and watch boats go through the locks. We have been reading lots of people’s experiences on the Great Loop and everyone talks about their experiences with the locks, especially going through their first ones. When we have visited the area in the past we have gone to the locks to watch before. Now I really want to go and watch what the boaters have to do to tie up and secure themselves for the ride. Unfortunately, due to the Coronavirus, the locks were closed to bystanders and onlookers. Only essential personnel were allowed in the area. I was so disappointed.
We walked through some portions of Discovery Park. Daybreak Star is like a museum or something. I don’t know for sure, because it was closed. Again, I think its because of the virus.
This was a very cool statue on the grounds of the Daybreak Star. We enjoyed walking, especially Bella. She loves her daily migrations.
Next we drove down to Pike’s Market. It is always a fun place to visit. The fact that they “throw” the fish to the customers makes it a bid draw. But there is also a great big Farmers type market that goes with it. There are normally huge flower booths, produce, fish, cheeses, crafts, tons of stuff. Due to the virus only about half of the stuff was there. The fish market was half its size and all the fish was behind glass. There was a nice greater taking the fish orders, and no one was throwing fish. There were no flower booths, and no crafts. Only the permanent type stores were there. Produce, jams and jelly’s, that sort of thing. Happily my favorite handmade cheese store was still operating full swing and I was able to get some curds.
From there we went to Tacoma. Rob has a friend, Bill Eaton, who he went to ROTC with and who is now a pilot with Alaska, as is Rob. He lives in the Tacoma area. We met him at a really fun Brewery. They are both on Incentive leaves from Alaska starting in October and currently just on monthly leaves. Bill opted for the 6 month leave while Rob was awarded the 2 year.
Anyway it was fun listening to them catch up on people from the Air Force and where they are now, as well as people working for Alaska Airlines. Bill is based in Seattle and Rob is based in LA.
After food and a couple beers we decided it was time to take Bella walking. She had been so good sitting on the patio for a couple hours. There was a really nice park right across the street that I kept watching people walk, bike and laze in and I couldn’t stand it any more. So we all went.
It was really nice. They had a point with a fountain.
They also had a terrarium, but again it was closed due to the virus so we were not able to go in and check stuff out. It was a lovely park and we enjoyed the walk.
We said our good byes and then Rob, Bella and I want back to the RV Park in Gig Harbor. We were pleased to find everything was as we had left it.
We watched a movie on Netflix and then went to bed.
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