Embassy Suites Hotel Seattle-North/Lynnwood

Lewis and Clark were explorers hired by Thomas Jefferson to chart the path of the Missouri River through the recently acquired Louisiana Purchase, to see if it made it all the way to the Pacific Ocean. As it turned out, the Missouri stops well before the Pacific starts, and the Lewis and Clark expidition had to push across the mountains in Montana before finding the Snake ...

... such is wonderful meal is that at 2;30 in the morning all the hot sause you put on the tacos comes back to visit in the form of some nasty heartburn which it did en force! Man oh man it hurt. I got up and took some Rolaids but realized that it was no use and spent the rest of the night cat-napping until around 5:00 when I just gave up. Instead, I wrapped myself up in a blanket and went out and sat on the veranda and watched the sun make a glorious entrance behind a mass ...

... my flight had just been delayed and I'd miss my connection in Denver. They were able to get me on a flight to Chicago and then on to Seattle from there. The Chicago flight had been delayed for 2 hours so most of the other people on the flight weren't too happy! It was a very bumpy right but thankfully, it's only 30 minutes. It's rather entertaining to be in the air for ...

... will all be flying First Class. We plan to take Trinity's carseat with us for her to fly in, for safety and comfort! Hotel: DoubleTree Suites Anaheim. We have a 2-Queen bed suite, however, have requested a King if available, there were none available (seemed odd this far out). It is a 2-bedroom suite, so Trinity can nap or sleep and we can still sit up and relax. It is a ...

... ferry from anchorage and flying back up, this way we could experience the inside passage. Well the trip into Seattle was simpler than yesterday, we caught a bus to take us to the Park and ride turnaround, and then from there into the city, ALL for a cost of $1.50 each, why would you take the castle or for that matter a car? Dropped off somewhere in the city and headed towards the Space Needle, this is the departure point for the ...

... cross the Columbia at White Salmon. The estimated travel time by Yahoo Maps is 4 hours and 49 minutes. We may stop at a winery along the way, and possibly lunch. We plan to leave Lynnwood at 8 AM, so morning commute traffic may alter our travel time.

... see that there are none in South Africa & 9704 in the USA! So we discussed how we would get our Starbucks coffee beans sent to us in SA, OR should we not open our own Starbucks in SA? So it was time to leave...we walked around the surrounding market area which was great. Loads of fresh produce on sale and bakeries to die for!! It was still raining & after walking around for a while decided to try & get onto the earlier bus to Vancouver. We went back to the ...

... with us. Thanks Hardy. Wed 8th Aug Back to Ashford to wash &shave in the restrooms. Cloudy but warm. We had breakfast & did some Emails. Late afternoon, drove to Paradise, advised by Rangers to walk at Snowlake, 4pm start.Great walk through alpine meadows, forest, small lakes. Saw "camp robbers" birds who are real cheeky & brave, lots of deer, got to lake, stream & waterfall. Crysal clear water, so tranquil. Found Bonnies scarf on the trail back - happy Bonnie! In ...

... he solves problems that the group is having when they translate from one language to another. Whatever Microsoft employees are doing, they sure get treated well while they're doing it. Coffee, hot chocolate, fruit juices, anything they want to drink is all free, plus foosball, soccer, softball, basketball, they get to have fun at work. While Jesus was in a meeting Pete and I found a plastic cricket bat outside ...

... the market. The main square is the center of all the action in Pike's Place. The boys working in the fish stand would toss the biggest fish you have ever seen to one another with ease. Singing wild sea songs as they work. A large group of tourists like us were standing around and watching. On huge beds of ice were monstrous sea creatures staring upward. The ugliest one was brown with a body that resembled a stingray. It looked sticky and its dead glassy ...