Day 9: Seattle, SeaTac, Snohomash, WA

Current Location: Snohomash, WA

Note: I wrote this last night but could not post it until today, sorry!

So today was pretty darn good. I slept in and had a cook to order omelet at the hotel, then watched YouTube videos with Hayley all morning laughing at people. Then, we took my Dad to the airport and picked up EMILY!!!! After getting Emily we went to Pike’s market and met up with Leanne and all four of us got to hang out in downtown Seattle. I still cannot believe how college friends now living in Seattle, SLO, Philly and Sacramento all spontaneously got to meet up in Seattle. That is amazing and it was so fun! After that Emily, Hayley and I went to my mother’s college roommate’s house outside of Seattle. We had an amazing home cooked meal and visited, it was awesome. Today was really not much in the way of pictures or sightseeing more of a pick up drop off session! Anyway on the road to glacier tomorrow and Emily is with me to Saturday, this is gonna get crazy.

Peace

Day 8: Bumbershoot Music Festival, Seattle WA

Current Location: Seattle, WA

Today I got up at the early hours of 10 am, showered and then this afternoon went to pick Hayley up from Leanne's house to go to Bumbershoot Music Festival in Seattle Center. The place was pretty cool we saw Greg Laswell (who sings the song "And Then You"), saw a couple of comedians (one that utterly sucked and two that were really funny), and DRAKE!!!! Everything was pretty cool weather wise except that it did rain a couple times during the concerts. Luckily for Hayley and I that we are so adapt to so many types of weather (haha) that it did not phase us, well sorta ;)

Anyway tomorrow we are picking up Emily and dropping off my father. So that is that. Good day with Hayley!!!

Peace

Day 7: Seattle, WA

Current Location: Hotel Sierra Redmond, WA haha outside Seattle

Today has been a semi(seemingly long) day. I awoke, dressed, blah blah etc. Then Pops and I headed out to Pike's Place market in downtown Seattle. Walked around and who did we happen to stumble upon but two friends haha (actually we had already planned it) but Leanne and Hayley!!! We had lunch together and walked around, Leanne gave us a great tour and everything was gorgeous. This is one of the nicest days Seattle gets, because apparently it is usually raining, which is why the suicide rate is so high and why UDub requires people students in the dorms to sign release forms saying that if they jump and try and commit suicide from a dorm building it is not the schools fault. Pretty messed up eh? (notice the eh i picked up while in victoria hahaah).

Anyway Dad and I did a little sightseeing and exploring of our own and then tomorrow the plan for Hayley and I is to go to Bumbershoot and see some famous people sing haha aka DRAKE!!! Super stoked. I am very excited for this reunited-in-Seattle date for Hay and I, also I have been hearing great things about Bumbershoot for quite some time. The weather was so awesome today that I hope it stays the same tomorrow and we do not need a bumbershoot at Bumbershoot (a bumbershoot is an umbrella for those who are not aware). Anyway that is the plan!

Peace

Day 6: Port Townsend to Seattle(Redmond)

Current Location: Seattle (Redmond, WA)

Today I awoke bright and early (10am) and we went to downtown Port Townsend to walk around and get some delicious breakfast. After we were done there we started are drive down to Tacoma and then back up toward Seattle to a little suburb outside Seattle called Redmond, WA. This place is very nice I quite like it haha. Anyway our hotel is very nice, obviously because I picked this one out instead of Pops lol, and we basically relaxed, enjoyed a happy hour, and watched a movie. Tomorrow is a big day for some Seattle tourism, also my lover and friend Hayley haha is flying into Seattle tonight and we are going to Bumbershoot on Monday!!! Holla Holla can't wait. I am pretty stoked to see Seattle I have never been here.

This trip is getting more and more exciting by the minute, agenda is as follows.

Sunday- sightseeing with Pops in Seattle

Monday- Bumbershoot music festival with Leanne and Hayley!

Tuesday- Dad leaves, EMILY ARRIVES!!

Wednesday- Hayley to airport and Emily and me are on the road!

Things are looking up and this whole trip has been on the up and up for since day 1.

Love you all

Peace

Day 5: Victoria, BC

Day 5

Current Location: Port Townsend, WA (Day’s Location: Victoria, BC, Canada

So yesterday I did not have a chance to write because of two reasons first I almost go hypothermia coming back on the ferry from Victoria so late and was extremely tired upon arriving at the hotel. Second, because I was enraptured by a John Wayne movie last night and lost all track of time while watching before going to bed, so basically, I forgot. Now however I am typing this from the passenger seat of The Shadow driving from Port Townsend, WA to Seattle Area (Redmond, WA).

Yesterday morning I got up early and had to be at the ferry by 745. Bought my ticket, grabbed my passport, and then hoped on the surprisingly smooth 55min ferry ride from Port Angeles to Victoria, BC. It was a great day out really nice weather and I felt like we were crossing a lake rather than an ocean. While on the ferry I met some very nice people that gave me tips about places around Victoria as well as recommended things to see etc. Once in Victoria I grabbed breakfast with a new friend and then headed to the bus tours where you can buy passes for this bus line called the “Gray Line” which is a hop on and off bus for the city. I did the 1.5 hour tour and Victoria is very very very pretty. The place is 33% retirees and there are unreal amounts of money clustered in this town, crappy homes away from the water are going for 550,000$! Crazy. Needless to say that I will not be moving to Victoria anytime soon. Anyway the city is really pretty and I walked around for quite a while drinking coffee and tea, eating gelato, and hopping on and off the bus. There are also many vendors there selling some really great stuff. Made some friends that were working for Unicef and then took the ferry back at 545 in the evening. It was a long day. As for the hypothermia story, the ferry back was in all ways the complete and utter opposite of the ride there. The sky was cloudy and the waves were coming at us from the sides, rocking the little ferry so much people were falling over one another. The spray from the front of the boat crashing over the waves was going over the height of the 40 foot boat and everyone, including myself, that was standing on the top deck were soaked from head to toe. There was a small handful of people that did not immediately run to escape the waves and only about ten of us stayed uptown the entire time because there was a small part of the top deck that was covered for the captain and crew. I stood statuesque for the rest of the trip my one side being overheated by the engine exhaust and the other becoming hypothermic from the spray of the ocean and the wind. I also stood in four to five inches of seawater for about and hour. Needless to say that the trip was definitely not a boat ride I would want to take again, and good thing my Father did not come or he would most likely be comatose today.

Other than that the day was good and I’ll put up another blog tonight about today’s activities.

Peace.

Day 4: Olympic National Park, Washington

Today was a day of scenic places. Basically I slept in, lazily got up, dressed and then Pops and I got ready to go see some amazing scenery at Olympic National Park. If you have not heard or Olympic NP you need to educate yourself HERE. The place is really amazing and there are about 5 or 6 different ways to enter the park. We entered going down from north to south out of Port Angeles and I must tell you that The White Shadow had to work its fine butt hard to get up to the peak (not that the Shadow can't handle that kind of thing, haha he shows no weakness, but I'm just saying). You have to check out the pictures that are on Facebook, they are gorgeous.

For anyone that does not have Facebook I have been making slideshows each day of the pictures I do put on Facebook along with a little tunage so you can relax while viewing them hahaha. Those can be found on my YouTube channel HERE or by looking on the YouTube link on my blog page on the right hand side, you will see the video bar.

Okay well that is really all we did today, enjoy nature and that kinda stuff. Tomorrow I am off to another country, literally I am going to Canada haha on a ferry, sweetness!

Goodnight and Peace.

Day 3: Astoria OR to Port Angeles WA

Current Location: Port Angeles, WA

Hookay sooo..... today I was woken by my father using my computer to listen to youtube videos at 73o in the morning, all I have for that is why? lol I got to sleep in for a little bit before I slowly woke up and got ready haha I sorta like how I can take as long as I want to do something because I have no strict schedule! Speaking of schedules Pops and I are actually ahead of schedule (yes ahead of the schedule I don't have) for some reason, probably because of our extreme awesomeness, lol jk.

This morning we woke up and walked around downtown Astoria looking for some coffee, which was not hard to find, the Rusty Cup was our final choice and I got an always delicious Mexican Mocha, super good. We then drove across the bridge to WA (Aunt Betsy, you would have not made it over this bridge). Drove all along the Washington coast and Pops talked on him HAM radio, always exciting, hahah sorta. Then we arrived at the start of Olympic National Forest (and Park)! Our first stop, OF COURSE, was the world's largest spruce tree, which obviously we had to pull over and see. The only other people that apparently wanted to see the spruce were a group of asian tourists (who want to see everything in america) and a woman who wore no shoes, most likely because she wanted more contact with the earth, but it could be anything. After the epic tree we headed to Forks, WA, yes the place of Twilight haha. Pops and I bought some lotto tickets so we could win it big and even inside the grocery store was an entire separate area for Twilight paraphernalia hahahaha... O gosh. The Forks downtown also has like eight different stores selling the stuff, all like the exact same stuff, but whatever. Anyway we drove out to La Push beach which is where "Jacob" is from hahaha and checked out the gorgeous coastline. After that we moseyed our way up to Port Angeles, checked into our hotel and went to this Bar to get some more bar food, strangely the same type of meal as last night, FISH & CHIPS and a BURGER!!! both were really good. I am all about this coastal fish and chips. However if I stay here eating fish and chips for too long I may need the fisherman to carry me away using their whale carriers.

Aiight well goodnight. Tomorrow is Olympic NP.

Peace