Seattle, Washington: Yes, we have so much to do at our long-abandoned house, but we had not seen our grandchildren for 25 days and that is just way too long.



Dave and I boarded a train this afternoon, but this train was not pointed south towards Los Angeles. This Amtrak went north to Seattle. After arriving, we took a taxi to a downtown hotel and guess who was waiting? Lisa, Lenny, Leo and Lucy!
What a wonderful coincidence!
The kids have been in Seattle for three days, being tourists, visiting every attraction you have ever heard of in Seattle... including this disgusting highlight:

Lisa had six tickets to the Mariner v Kansas City Royals baseball game tonight at Safeco Field. If you have a ticket to the game, riding the light rail is free, so we rode the rails for the second time today. We had great seats at the first baseline.

If you have never been to Safeco Field, it is a beautiful stadium with every amenity a fan could desire and crazy-good food (sushi!). But since it is on Puget Sound, where the weather isn't always perfect (or even nice), this stadium has a "lid" that passes over the stadium on rollers. It's the dangest thing and takes about twenty minutes for the entire ceiling to cover the park.


We took the light rail (3rd train today) back towards downtown (with a few million of our closest friends sardined into the cars) and went to bed. Way past Leo and Lucy's bedtimes.
So, what brings us all to Seattle? We (all 6 of us) are having an adventure, sailing tomorrow evening on the Ruby Princess to the Inside Passage of Alaska! Stay tuned.
Until my next update, I remain, your mass-transiting correspondent.
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