How to visit Seattle in a hurry

Our first and only night in Seattle was nice, because the room was pretty big and we were sleeping in a real bed. We started with a delicious breakfast at Top Pot, the home of the best donuts in town. Afterwards, we started to visit the sights of Seattle, because we weren’t able to see them the evening before due to our late arrival. A quick view at Pike Place Market (a famous and really big marketplace on multiple floors), the harbor with the characteristic green ferries (for Grey’s Anatomy Fans: you can see them in the intro) and Pioneer Square – and it was already time to hurry. On our way back we visited the famous Elliot Bay Bookstore (which Julia was obviously interested in) and the Seattle Seahawks Football Stadium.

Time to go: we booked a tour at the Boeing Company in the afternoon, which we didn’t want to miss. It was short, but really nice – we saw the huge Boeing 747 being assembled in various stages, from wing parts to the whole plane. It’s amazing that they produce eight 747 a month and one 737 a day! We wanted to order a 787 Dreamliner that day (we’re going to be rich one day, you know), but it would have been delivered by 2014…so we decided not to buy it ;-) It’s a pity that we were not allowed to take pictures, but you’ll find some anyway in our Seattle Photo Album.

Again, we had to move on…Yellowstone National Park was waiting for us and it’s a long trip. That’s why we headed for Spokane and passed by Redmond, where the Microsoft Corporation is located. Of course, Andi had to get a closer view and so he left his footprints in the lawn of the company ;-) Moving on, we had a problem with Mr. President. He decided to visit Seattle (actually we think he was looking for us) and so the Interstates and surrounding roads were closed – it took us two more hours to avoid getting stuck.

Finally on the road again (by the way, our favorite song these days) we experienced some funny things…like following a truck in the dark and therefore stopping in the middle of the road work or seeing people on foot or by bike on a highway…America is great! Arriving after midnight, we fell asleep without blogging again…but we’re catching up now.