a road trip!

With the borrowed GPS set and the bags in the trunk, we left Spokane at 7:00 on Friday morning, groggy but ready to have an adventure! We were heading for Molly's brother's apartment in Seattle. We had a great little trip there, exploring and being tourists (it was odd when people asked where we were visiting from and we said "Spokane"...). And believe it or not, it didn't rain. Friday had a cloud cover and wasn't pretty but Saturday was gorgeous and sunny.

We were on I-90 for a long time. What we found most interesting about the drive was that it began hilly then settled into flat farm country before suddenly breaking into mountain ranges.


We saw snow on the mountains from a distance while in farm country:

And then we skipped ahead to Seattle. Here's the Space Needle. We didn't go up it (too expensive) but we did go into the arcade right next to it where Molly and Skyler had a mean air hockey game and Skyler and AJ killed at DDR.


Then we walked downtown and visited Pike Place Market:

Found this interesting cutout. Molly is an asparagus and Skyler's a corn cob:

Starbucks was born in Seattle, so we had to visit the original one!


AJ and Molly:

Molly and I:


In the summer, they throw the fish around here... but I guess it's just too cold this time of year (it is usually warmer than Spokane is though, in case you wondered)


At twilight:


We got frozen pizza and soda, rented a movie and went back to AJ's house for the night. No pictures because how exciting would pictures of us eating be, anyway?

In the morning, we got up, got ready and went downtown for more exploration. We went to Top Pot for doughnuts - really good!


Then we got on the ferry to go to Bainbridge Island. We were the very last ones on and made it as they were shutting the gate... look at the mountains!


It was very windy, so get ready to see some funny hair pictures.


Skyler, AJ, Molly and I with Seattle in the background


As always on boats, a reference was made to Titanic and Molly posed :)


Seattle:


The very cold tourists:


The roommates:


On the way back (nope, didn't take any pictures at our destination), the day was clear and sunny enough to see Mt. Rainer (about 200 miles away) in the distance. It was HUGE!


And that's it, actually... except for this last picture of fresh produce in Pike Place. Molly and AJ went off to have brother-sister time and left the rest of us to explore. More Starbucks and more Pike Place.


We left Seattle after dinner. I was quite tired and slept for 2.5 hours of the journey home. Apparently I slept like a rock because they kept turning up the bass and choosing loud music to wake me up and I don't recall a thing.

Oh, random fact: Seattle is the largest city in Washington and Spokane is the second largest.