Seattle

This morning we were picking one of Cathy’s cousins up and heading to the Boeing plant for their tour.  No cameras, no cell phone, no bags, basically nothing allowed on the tour.  (Yet back at the hotel there was a several page photo spread of the inside of the plant in the Seattle book.)  Still, not a bad tour, you end up in the world’s largest building by volume.  Saw the 747, the 777, and the 787 assembly lines.  On the 747 line the first of the 747-8 models was being built.  The 787 line I think had the 4th one, plus one of the earlier ones back in for some work.  Did find a couple of amusing things in the gift shop.  One was a model of the Airbus A380.  Only Airbus item I saw.  Second was a model of the 787 done up in Northwest colors.  That was almost tempting to buy, because it’s something of a novelty item.  There will never be a 787 done in NWA colors.

Headed down to Seattle again, and once again walked around the market, this time with stuff actually open.  Busy place, and quite frankly, most of the stuff seemed to be overpriced for the tourist market.  After that, we drove along the waterfront for a while.  This weekend was Seafair, and supposedly there were supposed to be a couple naval ships along the waterfront, including I had heard an aircraft carrier.  We did see Fat Albert and some of the jets from the Blue Angels flying overhead a couple times while they were doing their show over the lake.  But no luck after driving around the waterfront finding anything that looked like a Navy ship.  So we dropped Wes off, and then went and dropped our rental car off.  After that walked down to the waterfront area to catch the ferry to Bremerton and back.  Did see what looked like an aircraft carrier being decommissioned in Bremerton.  Relaxing ride, nice view of the city coming back, and off in the distance Mt Ranier was peeking through the haze.