Sleepless in Seattle - Our Final Day

Katie and Pooh in their new home.

My last day in Seattle was to be a long one as Amy and I were to return to Rochester via a red-eye flight leaving Seattle at 11:55 PM with a connection in Chicago.  The day began by checking out of the Travelodge Hotel we were living in since Wednesday night.  We then moved the remainder of Katie's belongings to her apartment and finally brought Pooh over to check out his new home.  We had a whole day to kill so we decided to venture downtown to the World Famous Pike Place Fish Market.  We wandered the stalls of the various seafood providers and fresh fruit and vegetable stands as well as a variety of craft stalls.  What is amazing is that these booths are all setup and torn down each and every day!

Never did see any fist fly :-(

We ate lunch at one of the seafood restaurants in the market (I assume they don't have to tear down everyday) and I had to try a cup of the clam chowda (that's how we say it in Maine) and even though it was on the other upper corner of the country, it was pretty good.  After lunch we worked our way through more of the market and took in more sites including what is supposedly the very first Starbucks.  We then worked our way toward the Space Needle, a remnant of the 1962 World's Fair.  We chose not to wait in line and pay the fee for the ride to the top and instead decided a couple hours in a movie theater was in order.  Thanks to today's wonderful technology Siri was able to find a showing of Man of Steel along our walking route back to the market and where Katie's Prius was parked.

Produce at Pike Place Market

We had dinner after the movie and then walked back through the market at around 7:00 PM and sure enough, all the stalls were vacant and all those fruits and vegetables you see in the picture were gone, leaving empty stalls behind.  We were worried that the Ice Cream establishment we were eyeing earlier in the day would be closed as was the case for most of the eateries along the market street but we lucked out and were able to grab a cone before heading to the airport.
We had no issues with security and the flight was on time and both Amy and I were very tired from our long day without sleep and as the plane climbed to its cruising altitude of 37,000 feet we both fell asleep until our approach into Chicago and subsequent hop to Rochester, arriving back home shortly after noon.

Katie and me back when I had the hair  and she didn't

This was quite an experience for me, spending 5 days in a compact car with my adult daughter and her beloved Pooh bear (not too mention way more "stuff" than should fit in a Prius).  I hope you have enjoyed this blog as much as I have in trying to make it both entertaining and informative (I didn't think about providing links until the 3rd or 4th post).  I did this for few reasons.  First was to capture the experience while it was fresh and (hopefully) have a permanent record for both Katie and me to look back on in the years to come.  Secondly, Amy and I plan to do some traveling and RV'ing in our retirement and I've thought about doing a blog when that time in our life comes so I thought I'd see what that was like.  And lastly I wanted to share what Katie and I (and Pooh) were up to with close friends and family as it was taking place.  So if you followed us in our adventure I thank you.  If you are just reading this for the first time, I encourage you to go through the postings in the order they were posted (reverse of how they are presented on blogspot).
Oh, and if we were to ask Pooh for a good reason for why we did this blog, he is likely to say
“When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.” - A.A. Milne