Two Days of Sloth and Sightseeing

Well, I ask you…if you could sit in a comfortable chair and look out at this beautiful forest, would you do anything else?

Okay, in spite of the beautiful vistas of the Vaughan house, we have bestirred ourselves to do a few things.  Yesterday we went to the Locks, built in 1917, that allow boats to move from Lake Washington into Puget Sound. Big Locks!  Really big boats—mostly pleasure, although we did see a tug boat and one large barge. Even more interesting were the fish ladders. They are actually a series of weirs through which the salmon pass from the sea, traverse the locks, and go to their native bodies of fresh water to spawn. This is not yet the time for the major run, but there were a number of different kind of salmon moving through. They are bigger than I expected.  

The whole establishment was encased in lovely gardens. Flowers love the Northwest! The gardens up here are beautiful.

We ended the day with dinner at a seaside (Puget Sound) restaurant, where I had possibly the best salmon in the world.  Yummy!  It was great to watch the boats in the sound, and we also enjoyed watching an eagle or two.  

We ended the evening with Obama's wonderful speech. He is the first presidential candidate I've been excited by in many, many years. I pray for his victory and the end to this 8 years of madness.

Today we went to the Boeing Museum of Flight. They had everything from a model of Leonardo's "Dream of Flight" to one of the special replicas of  the Wright Brother's plane. Three very exact copies were made of that plane for the Centennial. We also walked through an actual Concorde (such small seats and windows!) and one of the older Air Force Ones. There were also good exhibits on the history of space flight. I recommend this museum to anyone interested in the history of flight.

What a wonderful visit we are having with Charlie and Robin, and we are enjoying this beautiful city.