Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Summer Vacation part deux








To recap- almost missed flight to Seattle, throwing fish, Abby Leonard, night cap.
After our night cap we headed back up to the room where we discovered this glorious thing called a pillow menu. Thats right a menu that you can order different pillows off of... GLORIOUS!! We ordered up a round of body pillows and crashed.
The next morning we had originally planned to go on a whale watching tour to the San Juan islands, but the day before they informed us that the boat had been overbooked and we had been bounced. We decided to try our luck and went down to the docks the morning of and they had enough space for us to sneak on. After a bathroom run nearly bounced us and Nikki and I sweet talking the boat loader we ran our way on to the vessel. Not realizing that this was "pretty much an all day venture we were very (mentally) unprepared. After a few photo sessions on the top deck we Thankfully headed to the mini shop on board with snacks, booze(!!), and cards!
After rounds of kings in the corner we got a little bored and a wee bit out of hand (I blame the mimosas) Nikki came up with a new card game named Free Bird. Epic.
After many a round of Free Bird and some DOUBLE Free Bird we finally were in Canadian waters and saw some whales, it was really cool to see these magnificent creatures in there natural habitats. After the whales we had a stop over in Friday Harbor for some lunch and a quick walk through the town. And a mini photo session including show us your best whale impression.

We headed back onto the boat and continued to annoy some other boat riders but also entertain many others with our newly snagged game of Mad Libbs.

Once we got back into the city where we met the wonderful Ms. Claire and her man-friend Chris for drinks at Pikes once again. After drinks we wandered around and decided to head up to the top of the space needle. After an awkward group photo where the picture taker excluded me because he didn't think that I was part of the group we took the elevator up to the very very top. During our elevator ride Nikki was shot down a second time by the elevator operator which was enjoyed by everyone on board. We did a quick running around the observation deck photo shoot since it had started to rain and another run through on the inside. We shot down the elevator only to be informed that the restaurant had closed for the night, after perusing the shop and discussing what to do for dinner we decided on buying a bottle of wine and eating some snacks we had gotten from the market earlier in the day.
After a rainy walk back to the hotel we were grateful for the bottle of red, the bag of popcorn, the peaches, my Swiss army knife, and the flavored honey sticks we had picked up from the market on our 2nd walk through earlier.