Fishes, flowers and trinkets Oh My ! Shopping at Pikes Place Market

Thursday  March 31  2011

Spring is wildly vivid in the market

daffodils galore:

tulips  showing off their warm colors

veggies for sale

flying fish  tossed by vendors:

belts waiting for a new home:

We walked for hours and then found a delicious lunch at the  Pear deli across the street
we stopped for a couple of photos

Kris in front of the  pike's place market sign.

view of the harbor from inside the market.

Ryan is unable to meet us tonight  but he might get tomorrow off.  Yay!  

Tomorrow  we are planning to see Little Knits ( they were closed today.  Grrr)  We may get our Geek on and go to the Science Fiction  hall of fame.   

cool and rainy today     but hey it's Seattle.  

Flying north by North west.

 Wednesday   March  30

Took off in  the rain, landed in the rain.   Soon we were off to find lunch and a Museaum
Tacoma  has a beautiful  museaum of Glass.  

artists working in the Hot Shop

Chuhily's Wall of Glass.   It is truly breathtaking. 

These tower over  hwy  705   

The cone

met Ryan at Gerties for supper.  

I was asleep by  10 p.m. Seattle time.    It was 1 a.m.  EST.   We are planning on sleeping in late tomorrow.
Yeah  like that is going to happen...

Good bye Charleston, hello Altanta

Tuesday  March 29,2011

Got up to sunny skies.   Drove to Atlanta.  Arrived about  2:30 p.m.   Visited Stone Mountain.

spring has sprung in the South  trees are in bloom

early bedtime.  We have an 8 a.m. flight to Seattle.

Rainy Day on sullivan's island

Monday,  March 28

We headed out  and found a huge traffic Jam on I 26.  Knit 8 rounds on the tiffany sweater.

Crossed the cooper bridge and went to Fort Moultrie.  We took advantage of a brief pause in the rain
and viewed some of the fort   We were in the niddle of the fort when the skies opened up.  We got soaked.  Stopped at Vickery's  for lunch  and had to photograph the entryway

met Glenn after his day of studies and duty at the Dive

he looks very handsome in his navy camos.   We had to  Goodbye.   sniff sniff

Charleston

Sunday  March 27  2011

Warm and Rainy day.   We visited  South Carolina's Aquarium.  

Here's Glenn inside the mountain section of the
trail.   sorry about the goofy orientation of the photo
I'll fix it later.

Glenn found a friend  on the harbor side of the building.

We went iin search of a nice lunch  and we found it.  here's  choice from Hyman's Menu:

a shrimp po'boy.   Yumo.     Impossible to finish.   

We saw lots of carriages.  

We passed the Daughters of the confederacy building at meeting and market streets

Then it started to drizzle again.   We went to the Visitor's Center and Took a Grey  Line Tour of Historic Charleston

a house on the Battery

Glenn had some studying to take care of.  Kris and I had supper and went back to the hotel.

Forts and Submarines

Saturday  March 26 2011

Picked up a sailor this morning.  he was so cute  we think we'll keep him

Kris and Glenn  at Patriot point in front of the USS  Yorktown

We took a Ferry to Fort Sumter

the Cooper Bridge

Kris and Glenn toured the Yorktown.   I watched  the cub/boy scouts disembarked from an overnight adventure on the ship.     watched a woman make  sweetgrass baskets.   They were beautiful.



The Hunley submarine  replica  this is a larger than life size  model

we also visited  Cupcake  Bakery.

breakfast:  perkins   lunch:  sticky fingers   dinner at Gilligan's  grilled shrimp.  Yum! 

Leaving on a jet plane

 Friday  March 25, 2011

The long awaited day is here!

Here we go...

Kris read the paper while we waited for the  Northstar train

cold sunrise   in Minnesota.

then we took the light rail to the   airport  and flew to Atlanta.   My new sweater was the perfect travel garment  part sweater/ part blanket.   I slept most of the flight.  Long drive to  Charleston.   had supper at a
Chick a Filet  it was pretty good.  In bed by midnight  slept like a  log.