Day 4 in Seattle

On Wednesday, Christie, myself and Tracy (from our room) decide to try and do some whale watching and head out to San Juan Island. As this is a two hour drive from Seattle and then a ferry ride, it was convenient that Tracy had a rental car. We had unbelievable fog on the drive two hours north of Seattle, quite close to the Canadian border, to a town called Anacortes. We arrived just in time to make our 9:30am ferry as we had been told the drive would only take us an hour (we literally had to run and yell at them to wait for us).

The drive to Anacortes

The ferry ride was absolutely gorgeous and that in itself would have been worth the trip. Now all we needed was a whale to jump out of the water. Unfortunately there were no whale sighting and so we docked at San Juan Island and wandered around the shops of this quaint seaside town.

On the ferry to San Juan Island

The view from San Juan Island

At the ferry port at San Juan Island

Re-boarding the ferry, we had our hopes held high for a whale but alas, our hopes were dashed and we had to settle on the stunning ride back to Anacortes.

Along the way hoping to see whales...

Me

That pretty snow topped mountain is Mt. Rainier I am told

Once back at the Anacortes ferry terminal, we had to go through US customs! We didn't even know we had left US waters (there was no warning) and were so very lucky that we had packed our passports at the last minute in case we had needed ID. If this wasn't enough, the customs lady completely grilled us over and over again. I just wanted to scream at her and say "We just went to look at some f***ing whales!". She eventually let us go but it was so ridiculous! She was obviously having a major power trip. Grrrrr.

After the drive back to Seattle, Tracy dropped us back at the hostel to repack our bags for the flight tomorrow while she went to look for a store. We then met back up with her for dinner (she had a coupon and invited us to share it with her) at a Latin fusion restaurant before she dropped us at Key Arena to see Arcade Fire! They were awesome. The end.

Arcade Fire