Arrival in Seattle

Tuesday night, June 23, 2009
Well, we’ve made it to the northwest coast city of Seattle, Washington, but there’s a minor issue, it’s 5:50 pm and we’re still here! We should be relaxing in our hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia! The four hour layover had been reduced to 35 minutes by the time we got off our delayed flight. Since it was an International flight, we had no chance of meeting the 30 minute check-in window – so here we are. The first flight we were re-booked on was over booked and had standby passengers of its own. Now we are firmly booked on an 11:00 pm flight and on standby on an overbooked 6:20 pm flight. There is something good to be said about planning to arrive a day early. We didn’t really have to stress out even though we would have preferred for the trip to go smoothly.
The view of the snow capped mountains while we were descending into Seattle, was truly wonderful. Mt. Rainier, with its snow capped peak, stands so high that it looks like it is floating in the air above the cloud line.
The good thing about dinner was eating at a nice seafood restaurant called Anthony’s Fish Bar. We had Salmon Fish and Chips and a basket of warm sourdough bread. I was tempted to get strawberries and shortcake for dessert, but I passed it up.
Now that has been determined that we won’t be on the 6:20 pm flight, I may go back and get the strawberry shortcake – no need wasting all this time just sitting around waiting for that flight!
Next, I will talk to you from Vancouver.
Wait, it’s 6:15 pm, and we made it onto the flight:-)