Got up VERY early (for me). And maybe even early for some of you early risers. I set the alarm for 5:40. ON A SATURDAY. egads. Oh well. It was definitely worth it. I took almost 500 pictures. Don't worry, I won't post them all here.
I got to Lisa and Linda's around 7:00 a.m. We took Travis to the doggy day-camp for the day and then headed up the 5 towards Anacortes. Anacortes is actually not on the 5 -- if you check out a map you can see that. You have to head West on the 20, which we did, to catch the ferry out of Anecortes to Friday Harbor on San Juan Island. Cruising through the town of Anecortes, there were signs for the "Oyster Run". After a confusing conversation that caused me to have visions of oysters literally running down the street, we determined that it is a motorcycle run. Needless to say there were a lot of motorcycles in town.
We headed out on the ferry, I think around 9:15 for the hour+ trip to Friday Harbor. The sunrise was beautiful and since I love boats, I'm pretty sure I grinned the entire trip.
Arrived in Friday Harbor around 10:30 and trekked up and down the streets, checking out stores that were open, peering into windows of stores that were still closed, and made mental notes about which ones to come back to visit.
We cruised through a farmer's market:
And decided to stop for breakfast (more like brunch) at the Rocky Bay Cafe.
Following breakfast we headed back down toward the water and poked around the docks, the park, and cruised through the Whale Museum. Watched a fascinating documentary (or at least a part of it) about a whale nicknamed "Springer" who had been abandoned by her pod. NOAA made the decision to capture her and nurse her back to health and then return her to her pod. We HAD to find out how the story ended, so we sat and watched until they confirmed that she had indeed been returned to good health AND her pod.
We decided to head back towards the ferry depot, grab a snack, and wait for the return ferry. Found a place called Fridays Crabhouse and decided to try their beer on tap.
The one on the left is Alaskan Summer Ale, the one in the middle is Moose Drool, and the one on the right is Widmer. All three were really good. The Moose Drool was a lot lighter than I expected! I've had Widmer before--the Alaskan Summer Ale was new to me. It was really good too.
The ferry ride back was quieter than the ride there. Seemed a lot of folks either stayed on the island or had taken the earlier ferry back. The clouds had started rolling in so it made for some pretty impressive skies going back.
Here are a few more pics from the day:
Is this seal playing the cello? (sorry, an old cat joke)
Gollygosh I'm loving Washington!
We got back to Mukilteo around 6:30 or so. Rescued Travis from doggy day-camp. It had been a fairly long day--or so it felt--it started so darn early. My feet hurt; we actually did a lot of walking. Reading back about it here it doesn't seem like it, but my feet insisted that I had indeed been on them a lot. So I headed back home to my apartment to rest my soles.
Truly, it was a great day.
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