Today was our last full day as we leave at 7am for the train to Vancouver in the morning. So we decided we would have a lazy day. We took a walk on the beach with Sharon and Alan then headed back to the house for some homemade Lasagne for lunch (which was yummy) After this Mel and I took a walk down to the main street around here (just a high street with shops) for a last look around in case we had missed anything out.Well I must dash Mrs Shaw is having probably ...

After posting home our first parcel of souvenirs and tat that we had collected we set off downtown to take the Underground Tour of Seattle. Now for those of you that don't know Seattle was a crazy town in the late 1800's and it was close to Elliot Bay and on the tide flats.Most of the buildings were made of wood and they used sawdust for the roads!!! So when a young boy called Jon left a block of glue melting and it set fire in 1889 you can imagine what h...

Time to tell you all about another fun day in Seattle. The bus service around here is superb, we caught 3 buses yesterday and all for $1.25 each ( we need a service like this!!!) Anyway I digress a little, we took the bus from West Seattle to downtown then transferred to the bus to the Flight Museum at Boeing headquarters. This place was real interesting with early boeing planes and models and flight simulators that spun you around and made you feel a little sick...

Right Guys here goes we have had 2 pretty packed out days. Alan gave us a tour of Seattle yesterday and took us to places like GasWorks park,Lake Washington and Union. We visited the Chittenden Locks and watched the boats come in from Puget Sound. We passed Kurt Cobains old house and saw where the Microsoft guys lived. We followed this up with a lovely birthday dinner that Sharon had prepared and it was beautiful we had Salmon with garlic mash and asparagus follo...

Well here we are "Sleepless in Seattle" its our last stop in the USA before going back to Canada,and boy are we glad we gave ourselves a week here this place is packed with things to do. We arrived early evening yesterday and were picked up at the train station by friends of Mel's Auntie Hazel (Sharon and Alan.) They have been kind enough to put us up for the week in their house, for which we are really grateful. Alan took us for a quick drive around the West Sea...