Departure back to Oak Harbor, then to SeaTac
Trip Start
Jul 11, 2008
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6
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Trip End
Jul 17, 2008
Roche Harbor,
Washington,
United States
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Check out was at 11, so Grandma, Geoff and I raided the fridge for breakfast, and also packed up our items. Cathy wanted to go to Rosario Resort to have a BBQ lunch on the boat, and to check it out the resort on the way home for possible future lodging. We checked out of the cabin, and made our way to the boat. The ride over to Rosario was beautiful, and the resort had a lot of interesting history. Surprisingly, Uncle Rick and Aunt Cheryl's boat was docked at the pier, and it turns out they stopped in for lunch. We looked around the old mansion, took lots of photos at the beautiful gardens, and just checked it out. Grandma had decided to stay on the boat, so we didn't stay out too long before heading home. We again were taking the safe route as we did not want to capsize or get seasick, and wouldn't you know it, we ran into that pod of Orca's that we wanted to look for, but were not brave enough previously! We spent a good hour watching the whales play in the water! Cathy said that they likely were pods J, K, and L, and that one of the pods recently had 2 baby whales. We took lots of pictures, and Geoff and I agreed that this was way more exciting than getting to the airport earlier for the chance to get on an earlier flight
Daisy on the boat
. After watching the whales, we made our way back through Deception Pass, which was deceptively rocky at this time. At first it seemed that we were just rolling in with the rolling waves, but once we got under the pass, we were bounced back and forth, so much so that the captains chair fell over, with Cathy in it, and the refrigerator door flew open spewing forth its contents of soda and beers. Cathy reported that her "poo poo hurt" and that it would be pretty bruised tomorrow. I'm so happy she was joking about it, but I know that had to hurt. We got back to the dock, and Geoff and I had to jump in the car to make it to our 11:40pm flight out of SeaTac after first returning the rental car. The evening was beautiful, as was the rest of the trip, but we had clear skies which gave us a great view of Mt. Rainier in the sunset. We arrived at the airport in plenty of time, had a beer at the bar, then made our way to the gate. At this point, we noticed that our flight was 15 minutes late, so we sat and again waited. We then found out that the flight crew was stuck on a different plane waiting for a wheelchair to get a passenger off their previous flight, but they eventually showed up and we finally were able to board a bit after Midnight. 
