Pike Place Market, Seattle..... Post View 10,810

     It's off to Seattle by Amtrak!!   It was my first Amtrak train ride....I felt like an excited kid waiting for the train!!

Our trusty vans picked us up at the senior center to take us to the train station..... 

 











Near the Port of Portland......scrap metal being loaded into barges 
for shipment around the world.....




Here comes the train!!!

 Sights on the way up to Seattle.  The trip was about 3 hours and 45 minutes.  
(We rode in the vans to return to Vancouver.)
                      





 Mt. Rainier....upper part covered in clouds....

                              PIKE PLACE MARKET IN SEATTLE....
    I had heard of (and seen on TV) the Pike's fish and farmers market in Seattle but had never been there.  Though we only had 2 &1/2 to explore it was totally worth the travel to get there.  What it did was interest me in returning some day to spend a couple days in Seattle to have more time roaming the steep hills and attractive shops, the waterfront.....and the myriads of booths in the market.  WOO!

 
 

Can you find the "flying" fish that was tossed? 

And hear the fishermen singing?  AND smell the fishy smells......

Lunch at Lowell's

    We enjoyed partly cloudy skies on the way up, but, true to form, it was raining in Seattle by the time we left.
     After the traffic in Seattle and the surrounding cities and the 4 lanes on the interstate I felt like I was returning to a small town when we entered Vancouver.  Now, it is my quiet, little Vancouver instead of being a scary "big city" to this once northern Wisconsin lady.
      Again, another enjoyable, successful senior adventure.

      This has been a good senior trip day in the life of Grandma G.

    "About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.  He told them, 'You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.'  So they went." (Matthew 20: 3 & 4)