Seattle Saturday 13 July

A late, lazy morning, sitting in the sun reading and knitting. Then we left to go downtown to the Cheesecake Factory for “lunch” = CHEESECAKE! Okay, so it’s not Honolulu Cheesecake Factory but we weren’t willing to wait for 1 or 1½ hours for a table. We only had to wait 10 minutes here.




The pictures speak for themselves: we had 30th Anniversary Chocolate (pic 1), Blueberry (pic2), Mango and Lime, and Vanilla Bean. Yes, those piles are fresh whipped cream! Needless to say, we brought home a doggy bag. The latte’s were very good too.
After that we needed a walk, so we drove down to the locks at Ballard. There wasn’t any room to park for miles, so Rick went and sat in the car a few blocks away. We walked around, had a look at the salmon on their way to their spawning grounds and then watched one side of the locks fill with water and the boats heading off. On the way we passed Pier 91 where we will get on the ship tomorrow; there were two cruise liners in port – very exciting!

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Dinner Saturday night was Barb’s delicious turkey with gravy, rice and salad and some white and red wine (Mad Housewife Merlot!). Then we had a long evening punctuated by coffee, cheesecake doggy bag and an excellent port. Rick had tried to find an Aussie port but failed.

We all but packed and were in bed late.

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