Friday, August 31
We took it easy today by spending the morning relaxing in the pool. Then Sheri, Levi, Seth, and I went up to the Boeing plant for a factory tour. It is amazing what Boeing manages to do with airplane assembly in the world’s largest building (by volume). Boeing is kind enough to let you see the 777 line, but it’s hard to really see the details because the viewing balcony is so far away from most of the action. Nonetheless, the tour is well worth the trip. Boeing is turning out an airplane every 3 days, and the 787 assembly will be even more impressive when it gets up and running next year. Tomorrow we leave Seattle and go to Port Angeles, which allows access to Olympic National Park. We had a funny GPS experience tonight. After deciding to do Mexican, we used the GPS to locate the closest Mexican restaurant. We turned left onto the designated street and the GPS proudly announced "arriving at destination on right". The only thing on the right (or left) were single family homes. Unless somebody was running El Charro Mexican Restaurant in their basement, the address in the GPS was totally wrong. So we promptly selected the next closest Mexican restaurant. This time, there were stores at the address, but again no Mexican Restaurant. Lucky for us, there was a Chilis in the same strip mall, so we could eat. The good old GPS seems to be best suited for directions, you can’t always trust its imbedded list of restaurants.
Thursday, August 30
If you didn’t know your history, you may not know that Seattle was put on the map in 1897 when 70,000 people came through the city to buy supplies for the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon Territory. Of the 100,000 people that rushed up to find gold, only about 300 made it rich. Bad news for many gold rushers, but great news for the Seattle economy. Without the Klondike Gold rush, Seattle might not be the same city it is today. This was all news to me, but we learned it all at the Klondike Gold Rush National Park in Seattle, which is well worth the visit. And of course, the kids completed another junior ranger program there. After our visit to the museum, we rode the Seattle monorail (built in 1962 for the world’s fair) back up to the Pacific Science Center, which is a nice museum. They had all sorts of great exhibits for the kids including a Virtual Reality soccer goalie game that the kids loved.
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hi hunter and family. we have hada hard time getting to talk. tod i work. it is 8am and chris is going to a birthday part at noon till 7pm. jonathan is coming over to see the hokies paly east carolina.i am really busy trying to get material for a training calss at church for volunteers in friendship club. we will start a class again 9/16. i have a good teacher to help this time. it is stressing me some and i am having it show at work. after some prayer and thought i will have to continueto work. anyway we are all fine. i so miss you all. tim is here with the babyies. they are so cute. mathew laughs all the time. he uis 5mos. emma is moving all the time. she is 18mos. got to go i guess. will try to call this evening after 6 i guess.love you all. granny
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