Seattle Honeymoon – Day 4

This morning we spent some time hanging out with two of our very favorite adult people (Doug and Erika) and two of our favorite kid people (Mercy and Aaron). Mercy and Aaron are two of the smartest children we know. Apparently Aaron knows how to count to 10 in Spanish and loves to end in “taco”. We met them at the Seattle Aquarium and then had a very good and heavy lunch at Red Robin. The Aquarium is small, but they had a cool octopus and we got to see puffins, which are Beth’s favorite birds. We were glad to hang out with Erika and Doug; they were part of our wedding and now part of our honeymoon.

The day was somewhat long. After saying good bye to our friends we walked to the Seattle Center for a ride on the Ducks. The tour bus/boat was a type of land/water vehicle used in world war II by the marines to transport supplies and medicine, so we got to ride in it and then float in it. That took an hour and a half, but it was well worth it.

We walked part of the way back to the hotel and on our walk we found my Seattle counter part — that was kind of fun. We also found a graffiti mural that almost makes me re-consider my original thoughts about Seattle graffiti. It took took 45 minutes to get back to the hotel. I gotta tell you we felt almost at home with all the traffic. The downtown streets are narrower in Seattle than in L.A. so it wasn’t surprising, but apparently it wasn’t the norm — to have so much traffic.

We were finally glad to be back in the hotel for a much needed R&R at the pool and hot tub.

Later while we were “preparing to order dinner” we were startled by the fire alarm.

“Did we do something?”

“No, I don’t think so”

“Fire?”

“let’s go!”

So we grabbed our key and money and followed the crowd down the stairs. We didn’t see any smoke so I was relieved; having left Carmelo in the room. We decided for an hearty dinner at ihop and then back to the hotel to finish what we left pending before turning in for the night.

Happy honeymooning to us!