Last weekend Jamie and I visited some friends in Seattle, saw the sights and did a little networking with some IT folks. We also took the opportunity to visit a restaurant called Wild Ginger which was featured on the Food Network and it definitely lived up to the expectations. Here are a few highlights (touristy pics) of our trip and I may post some individual pics of specific locales later.

Seattle skyline from park overlook (Queen Anne)

Standing in front of The Space Needle (a.k.a. ‘The Needle’) at Seattle Center

Seattle skyline from Lake Union

Seaplane taking off from the water in Lake Union with Seattle skyline in the background

Jamie with her cup of Starbucks coffee from the first ever Starbucks store checking out Pike’s Place Market. Jeff has a place on Western just a couple blocks walk from The Market. We were able to walk to most destinations including the Seattle Center and Pike’s Place and Taiphoon, a great Thai restaurant we ate at on Friday.

It was a very fun and productive trip and I’m pleased to say that the new Jetta, even with 4 mountain passes and averaging between 70-80 mph still only sipped the fuel giving us over 40mpg and less than a single tank each way for the 500 mile trek from Missoula to Seattle.

On Saturday we visited my uncle’s house in Green Lake near Woodland Park Zoo and also visited The Locks and checked out the fish ladders and some cool Yachts. We ate fish and chips and later took the Duck Tour on an old WW2 amphibious craft with a city tour and then water tour combined. Our Duck broke down which actually added to the excitement and we switched Ducks and completed our tour.

My uncle’s house near Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle.

The Locks in Seattle - packing in as many vessels as possible before closing the rear gate and filling it with water to allow the ships to enter the channel to Lake Washington.

Jamie and I sitting aboard The Duck embarking on our tour.

Lame Duck - the vessel in the background, not Jeff Our Duck blew a transfer case in the middle of downtown so we had to deboard it and hop on another to complete our tour.

Some of the skyline photos above were taken while floating around Lake Union aboard The Duck.

Great trip!

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