We left Dallas on Saturday and flew to Seattle. We spent the day Sunday just hanging out revisiting some of our favorites from when we were here 2 years ago. We all agreed Pike Place market was where we wanted to go back. We went by the original Starbucks, but the line was around the corner so we just snapped another picture and got drinks at another Starbucks.
Thomas found a movie store that stocked copies of hundreds of different movie scripts!
We walked past Seattle's "gum wall" which totally creeped me out…
Then we headed to Pike Place Chowder for lunch. Yum. I had clam chowder and the others all had chicken corn chowder. The line is long, but soooo worth the wait.
They also had a Target that was in a high rise office building and was three stories…so of course we had to check that out!
Pike Place Market is a fun, quirky, hippie sort of place. I confess that I did purchase some organic granolaish lotion and lip balm from some type of commune. Lots of local artisans showing their wares, beautiful fresh flowers, fresh seafood….a great way to spend the afternoon.
Scott hired a car service to take us from Seattle to Vancouver to spend the night so we'd be close by to board the ship the next morning. It was a large suburban so we could get all 5 of us and our 5 massive bags! The drivers name was Ron and he reminded me of Norm from Cheers! The drive was going great until the car died just before the Canadian border. Ron pulled off and managed to get it started again. Then, after we went thru the Canadian Border Patrol stop it died again. This time we sat on the side of the road for about 20 minutes.
They immediately dispatched another car to head our way, but the driver managed to get it started once more and finally made it to our hotel. After all that excitement, we decided to just order pizza at the hotel and turn in for the night. The kids thought it so funny that we ordered Canadian bacon pizza in canada!
Next stop the Disney Wonder!!
Blessings,
Leslie
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