My Seattle Vacation

[buttonpresser4815]

It is very nice here in Seattle. Here will be posted a journal on what I have done and what plans to be done. It will be updated as much as possible.

Wednesday
Drive to Indianapolis airport. Fly to Minnesota, break, fly to Seattle. Very long day, espicially with the time change, i stayed up for over twenty hours, waking up at five my local time and falling asleep around 10 Seattle local time. I missed the 23rd Psalm, but I have seen it.

Thursday
I go to Mt. St. Helens. It is very beatiful, yet also dangerous. The visitors center had an Imax film about the eruption, and I hiked along a two mile mountain path, ending with a wonderful view. All of the exhibits in the center where contained in an octagon shape. There was a burnt tree, a model on what happened(using lights) and a seismograph measuring the magnitude of your stomps and such. The IMAX film ended with the curtains parting with a perfect close-up view of the mountain, which was smoking due to a volcanic process whihc is slowly building up the lost area. It will take about a hundred years at the current rate to completely return to normal

Friday
We go to another mountain range, wherever Mt. Olympus is. It was snowing up there! It was really cold.

Saturday
I go to Alki beach, with wonderful views of the city.

Sunday

I kayak across Lake Union in Seattle. THe Hotel i am staying at, the Silver Cloud, has free breakfast, so I enjoy that. I found a copy of Prey by Michael Crichton yesterday and now i am on page 246/364. THe third floor lobby is where breakfast is served and is best described as an open-air restaurant. THere is a windowseat where I get most of my reading done. Also, there is a large deck outside that I read some too. At least 36 seaplanes took off this morning, and most of them returned as a i was kayaking. I think I want to live here.

Monday

I am going to Pike Place Market today, and maybe the Space Needle and the Sci-Fi museum.

Possibly a ferry to Vancouver. I really recommed coming down here, it is beautiful in the summer!

[Reno]

BP, sounds like your having a good time there. Have fun. I know I would, I think, is it cold there?

[buttonpresser4815]

Oh not at all, it is a very pleaseant 21 degrees Celsius i think.

[Reno]

Ahh good. I like warm weather, but not at night. It would be perfect to find a place that is warm in the mornings and afternoons, and cold at night. Lately its been opposite.

[buttonpresser4815]

Its kind of like that here, 21 in the mornings then 14-16 at night.

[Reno]

Thats what I would like to have over here. Its inverted. 16-18 in the morning. Then 20-26 at night.

[Jarlaxle]

Not at all from where I'm living. Its hot here in the day and you can almost see your breath at night. That sounds like so much fun. I hope I have as much fun during my trip to BC.

[evilcrash9]

your going to B.C.
(get it)

[Jarlaxle]

That's the hope anyway, nothing is for sure yet but I hope so, it would be an excellent addition to an already good summer.
(I get it and yes, nothing like time travel for a vacation!)

[buttonpresser4815]

There is a freeway sign that said Vancouver and I always saw it when driving into downtown. I thought that is waht you meant. BC

[Jarlaxle]

No, I meant British Columbia and some how I had a feeling someone would mention time travel as a joke.

[buttonpresser4815]

No the sign I saw said Vancouver BC and i never figured it out until you just said it there. There were alot of people from British Columbia everywhere i went, on the ferry, Mt. St. Helens, the Olympics, and other places.

[Jarlaxle]

It's going to suck to be the locals on Vancover Island at Tofeno beach (Spelled wrong I know) because a tsunami is going to strike there in a few years. People will be forced to move and that resort will be gone.

[buttonpresser4815]

There was a whole discovery channel doc about that. The fault that caused the recent tsunami in Dec 26, 2004 is practically identical to the one in the Pacific. Is that waht you are basing your claim off of?

[Jarlaxle]

Not exactly, its just a something interesting I thought you might like to know.