Raincharm’s Weblog

We had a visitor or 2 or 3!

Liz & Zach at Carkeek - only a little chilly

Liz & Zach spent about 24 hours with us here in Seattle and we got a chance to play tour guide.

Liz

We saw the

• Ballard Locks & Fish Ladder (one puny fish),
• Seattle Underground Tour (1st time for me after only 25 years) Very funny tour guide, but Carl thought we could have gotten a little more information (his 6th or 7th visit).
• Troll (under the bridge of course)
• Lenin statue (a real one from Poprad, Czechoslovakia)
• Space Needle
• Seattle Center – generally, but not the Experience Music Project because it was closed for the evening.
• Archie McPhee’s
• Carkeek Park and Puget Sound. We actually saw a few salmon in Piper’s Creek in Carkeek. When we spotted the first one, a really good sized salmon, it was on its side on a log weir, just having made the jump. But it couldn’t quite get all the way over and slipped back down to the lower pool. We watched while it rested and lined up for another try for quite a while, but never saw it leap before we left.

Then it was home again and time for lunch. Best of all Aimee joined us for lunch from the Taste of India restaurant down the street. Sated for the moment all visitors had to depart to their next stops on their way home. We really enjoyed the time visiting and getting caught up.

Aimee shared with us a story of folks coming into the middle of a conversation about the porcupine herd, 10,000 strong. Picture that in your head. Then check it out. Anyway, it was nice to see everyone, and share a few moments. WE WANT MORE VISITORS. (I didn’t really shout that out did I?)

This entry was posted on November 28, 2009 at 6:20 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.