Today was our only full day in Seattle so we tried to fit in as much as possible. We started with a tour of the Boeing Assembly Plant. The Boeing Company occupy a huge amount of land about 35mins out of Seattle. On the way out, our bus driver told us the story of Bill Boeing. He started an engineering degree at Yale before leaving in his final year to try and make his fortune in the logging industry. He was very successful at that before his interest in aviation ...

The shuttle picked us up at 9.20am for the trip to the airport. Our plane had propellers. We took off at 11.00am and landed in Seattle at 11.30am. We had an excellent view of the many islands off the Canadian & US coast & also lots of snow capped mountains. The captain told us the temperature was -1 when we landed. It certainly felt like it when got outside. The cab driver told us it was going to drop into the 20s (Fahrenheit) in the evening and it never ...