Monday, October 8, 2012

Days 19 - 21 ~ The State of Washington

We really enjoyed the mountains and glaciers; the next three days were also beautiful in Seattle, Tacoma and Sawyer Lake

Driving out of Packwood we saw our first mountain with a cloud hiding the peak

Seeing our last mountain in the distance

Down town Tacoma, crazy 'hills' to drive; thankfully we were in the Mini

Driving into Seattle for the first time



Really cool Convention Center

The parking was really expensive here!


Couldn't pass up this construction site; Dan misses working .... maybe not  ;-)

First view of the Space Needle from the monorail



Pictures from the ride up in the glass elevator

pics from the top of the needle

Love this one!  See the shadow and the spiders??



A little windy up there

now do you see the spiders?


A birds eye view of Puget Sound





This plane circled the Space Needle and landed in the bay; fun to watch

EMP Museum next to the Needle

Really neat GLASS museum ! 





Mono-rail running into museum

This looks like the Architect was suffering from a hang-over when they designed this one.
 

We left the Space Needle and headed to Pike & Pine to this HUGE market for lunch

yum  (Dan)   ~   yuck (Pam)

neat market

Seafood lovers paradise

Nice view from restaurant

You can barely see the mountains in the haze, but the freighters & ferries were fun to watch




Suzie!  I couldn't believe I got to see the 1st Starbucks! 
The line was still outside the door after all these years !

SO MANY pretty flowers


This place was a little fishy...


Couldn't pass this '57 T-Bird without taking a picture.

Located @ Pike & Pike ?

This market was HUGE !  So many vendors!!

I got some pretty flowers too!.......(she always gets what she wants - she is soo spoiled)



Look, Streetcars....


We saw some interesting folks out here.


A day for LeMay Car Museum...which wasn't enough for Dan

If you are interested in the 150+ pictures of the cars Dan took; email me and I can share the google folder I made for him

Inside an Aluminum building


All of cars were historical for some reason...

1st, last, fastest or odd...

A 3,000 car personal collection...

Amazing..


A Tucker, one of 54 made, one of 7 in existence...

And of course he had to have one of the 1st Mini made  (fitting in a 4'x4'x8' crate for shipping)

Soo slick, 67 XKE Jag

I knew this guy had class when he had a '60 T-Bird (the only customized car in his collection)

And of course, The Flintstone car...

Detroit was making electric cars 100 yrs ago, the original Volt. (and they had a range of 200 miles back then)


The U of M solar powered car that won the cross country race in 2008.


1 comment:

  1. Love the flowers and the cars were pretty cool too. ;)

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