Visit with Robin and Neil

Last Monday after Rick and Jay were done mowing, we went to visit with Robin and Neil. We wanted to see them one last time before we left the area and to see their newly remodeled kitchen. Well, the kitchen is amazing! A total difference from the one before. Great job guys! We had dinner of tacos and beef enchiladas. Robin is a very good cook. Then off to the golf course. We played 13 holes before it got to dark to see and the mosquitoes started to carry us off. We had fun. Their course is very pretty and challenging. I was actually hitting good that night. The next morning we got up and went into Seattle. It’s great to see a city with people that know their way around. The first stop was the market. The picture is dark because we had the setting on action for the races. After a while Rick realized what was wrong and changed the setting. The flowers on the buildings were beautiful. It was a bustling place. This market had everything you could think of. What I loved the most was the fresh flowers. Big bouquets of every type of flower imaginable and they were real cheap. A big bouquet was either $10.00 or $15.00. And fresh fish. This is the market that has the flying fish. The guys working the fish market can toss a fish high and far and they don’t drop them. I couldn’t get that on film, sorry. But here is Robin drooling over the lobster. More fish. Some city shots. Now off to the Space Needle!

Beautiful flower gardens surrounding the Space Needle. We did not go inside or up to the top. Just not enough time in the day. Heading to the music museum. This is the music museum. The colors of the buildings were awesome! We had fun going thru this building. The  pictures didn’t turn out real good inside. You were not allowed to use flash. So after lunch we headed to the locks. This was really neat.

These boats were heading from the lake out to the ocean. This one is now coming from the ocean into the locks to head into the lake. The water is rising. This guy here is one of the workers. They are great at getting as many boats into the locks as they can. This next picture is of a boat that the pilot used a remote control device to move his big boat into and around the lock. The same boat leaving the locks. It is from Wisconsin! What a beauty! We then head over to the other side of the locks to see the salmon heading upstream. The water is rushing past them as they swim upstream. They made a ladder type area for them to get past the locks. Really neat to watch them and they are pretty good size fish! And we saw this seal as we were walking outside by the ocean side of the lock. I think he was fishing. Now on to the Snoqualmie Falls which is on the way back to Robin and Neil’s house. This is just a trickle compared to the spring when they have the mountain snow melting and running thru here. But it was still beautiful to us! Ok, now we are heading back to their house on Interstate 90. As we were going, Robin noticed one of the road warning signs with the lights blinking and she said, “What time is it?” We told here and she said we will probably get caught in the traffic stop ahead. What they do at 7:30 every night, the state shuts down I-90 so they can blast for their widening project. You guessed it, we got caught. Rick and Neil talking to one of the other drivers. Robin took this opportunity to clean out the jeep. She was to drive to a golf tournament the next morning and wanted to have it cleaned. What a great way to pass the time. We were stopped for about 40 minutes. No big deal. It was kind of neat in a way. And here is the outside of Robin and Neil’s house. They have a beautiful home and they are great hosts. Thanks so much for the guided tour of Seattle. Love you guys!