In Seattle at the end of our journey

We stayed with the cruise people until Wednesday morning. The hotel where we stayed was deep downtown, so that morning we wandered around the piers and Pike Street Market. After a delicious lunch featuring crab, we went back to that hotel and walked to another for the rest of our Seattle stay, visiting with friends and family. That night, we shared dinner with Clare’s sister.

Our hotel near the Space Needle
“in the”
“the P-“
“P-I”
This building faces Puget Sound near our hotel. Brian finally remembered that the local newspaper is the Seattle Post-Intelligencer or P-I!
Clare in a shiny sculpture
Post near Pier 70
Washington State Ferries connect communities to Seattle
Art beneath the shiny pipes
Boy holding up the Space Needle
Mural on the Queen Anne Beerhall, where we ate dinner
Arch at end of the pedestrian bridge that leads to the Sound

Although we have visited Seattle a few times, we had never seen the Chihuly Garden & Glass Museum. Spectacular!

We were happy that so many friends and family members made time to visit with us. We shared dinner with geo-buddies from graduate school days, an entire day with a high school friend, and met with two nieces, three grand children of one of Clare’s sisters and a different sister, for an enjoyable evening of hotdogs, hamburgers, and S’mores. A perfect end to our Alaska adventures.

Sunset over Puget Sound
Southern Puget Sound and Mount Rainier from the plane as we left for Denver

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