Seattle-Day 5

On Tuesday of our trip, we went on a ride on the duck boat. For those of you who have not seen one it is a boat that has wheels and can drive on land. I wish that I would have taken a picture of the whole thing, but I forgot after we were done with our ride.

The boats were actually used during WWII, and only a few survived. Now they are tourist attractions! It was a good opportunity to see more of Seattle than we had so far. We didn't rent a car, so we walked everywhere. That limits the distance you cover!
The tour lasted about 1 1/2 hours. We went around much of the city of Seattle. We saw the downtown tourist area (where we spent most of our vacation). We also saw both the football and baseball stadiums, the convention center (where Stephen was), the shopping areas, the art museum, and many other points of interest. I couldn't take many pictures because I was busy holding Caleb to make sure he didn't fall out of the boat. Our tour guide was from the area, and had lots of interesting tidbits to share. She is a commercial fisherman 6 months a year, and drives the duckboat during the off season.

Among the interesting things that we saw were some of the spots where they film the outside scenes of "Grey's Anatomy." (The kid's were not impressed with that, but I found it interesting). For part of the trip, we drove into the lake. (I forget the name, I will have to look it up.) Once we were on the water, I was able to take some more pictures. There was a whole neighborhood of house boats. Some people live on them year round. There were also floating houses. They are actual houses that sit on the water, and they are hooked up to the city water, city sewer, etc. One of the ones that we saw was the house from "Sleepless in Seattle." We just looked from a distance, because it is a privately owned house now. Evidently, they get a lot of traffic through the water right in front of their house. We saw a couple of water planes land and take off again. Ian was pretty impressed with that