This building at the Boeing plant in Everett, Washington (1 hour North of Seattle), is the size of 75 football fields. No cameras allowed so I could not take pictures of the assembly lines we saw. We got to see them putting together 749's, 777's, & the new 787's. Very interesting. Outside was sitting about 20 planes waiting for about that many countries to pick them up.
Pike Market place in Seattle.
This is the Smith & Wesson building in downtown Seattle. The top peak is an apartment. Our tour guide told us the woman who converted it into a penthouse made a lot of money with Microsoft. The very top ball is her bedroom.
China town in Seattle. These colorful dragons are on several of the light poles.
The space needle. There's a restaurant near the top that rotates. The price of a steak dinner is $56.00.
Day care Seattle style.
We took a boat tour to Blake Island, where the natives entertained us with an alder-smoked salmon dinner and native dance show.
Camp kids on our boat tour with us. I wish they had these kind of camps when I was growing up.
Beautiful Mount Ranier in Central Washington. It's about 14,000 feet tall. The locals say the mountain is out today when it isn't socked-in (which is about 90% of the time).
Discovery of Flight museum on Boeing Field in Seattle. Our tour guide flew during WWI and then for McDonnell Douglas. He knew a lot about these planes.
Cliff reading about a Viet Nam operation that happened when he was there in 1971. His unit was suppose to participate, but was the small helicopters (LOH's) were pulled off of the operation.
Space shuttle above. Air Force One (used by Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, & Nixon) and the Concorde below. Very fun going through these planes.
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