Tuesday
July 13, 2010
Seattle
My side of the family is in town this week for 3 days (everyone except Matt, Heather and their family) so we have a full week of activities planned. After Sara and I took care of our friends chickens and cats in the morning (first 4 photos are from their garden), we met up with everyone at the rental house and headed over to the Ballard Locks where we watched the Sockeye school in front of the dam, flee from the harbor seals and climb the fish ladders, and then watched a couple of sailboats and a kayak pass through the locks. Perfect temperature, beautiful Seattle day!
We then drove over to Discovery Park where we hooked up with Sara, Matt & Gavin (Sara’s watching them this week). Everyone but mom, dad and I hiked down from the upper parking lot to the beach (we drove and parked at the beach since they couldn’t make the hike) and spent about 45 minutes exploring the beach, tide pools and sand at low tide where we found among other things a large crab and a sea slug (biggest one I’ve seen outside of the aquarium).
Since the day was passing quickly and we started off a bit late, we stopped at the rental house on Phinney Ridge near the zoo, grabbed a quick bite to eat then headed up the hill to the zoo for about 3 1/2 hours.
We ended the day watching the Duck Dodge from Gasworks Park on Lake Union over a picnic of KFC. Given the weather and activity around the park and lake it was quite scenic and picturesque.
A great first day with the family!
Our Friend’s Garden:
The Ballard Locks
Discovery Park
Woodland Park Zoo
Gasworks Park
