Seattle, Washington - May 15

We woke up to a beautiful morning. After storing our bikes inside the camper we drove over to Bainbridge Island and caught the 8:45 ferry to Seattle. The scenery was so pretty and we enjoyed watching the seagulls play in the updrafts of the ferry. I had hoped to see some Orca Whales but no luck. After we landed we drove over to the Seattle Center to park the camper. It is a huge area that boasts the Space Needle, the Sci-Fi museum, A theme park and has a Monorail that takes you into downtown Seattle. When we got there we discovered that there was also a Mothers Walk for Babies getting ready to take place. My first stop was to ride up to the top of the Space Needle. By myself of course as Garry doesn't do heights.

The views from 520 feet up where amazing. Unfortunately it was a little hazy so I wasn't able to see Mt. Ranier. After we left the Space Needle we took a ride on the Monorail into downtown Seattle. We got off and walked down the steepest hill I have ever been on to go to Pikes  Place Market. There was a cheese tasting festival going on and the place was mobbed. We browsed a bit and then got some lunch. Afterwards we took an elevator down to the lower street level and walked over to the Aquarium. I loved  the Puffins and the Otters. It was a great place. Then it was back to the market to get Garry a Dungenuss Crab for dinner. We rode the Monorail back having had a wonderful day. As we wrote  earlier, everything went crazy when we arrived back at the camper and saw that we had been burglarized.  Since the rear window had been busted out we didn't feel that we could leave the camper and do anymore sightseeing. Also there was glass EVERYWHERE which we needed to get cleaned up before we did anything else. We are staying at Lake Pleasant RV Park in Bothell waiting until Monday when we have an appointment to have the glass replaced. the campground nicely lent me a shopvac to clean up the glass and I then spent 2 hours washing and drying all the bed linens as we couldn't sleep on glass. So we hope to be back on pleasanter topics with our next post.