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Seattle Trip 2003
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Seattle/2003

September 3-7, 2003 It took us almost 3 years to go visit our friend Eric after he moved to Seattle. But we finally did it. We had a great time there. Eric and Wendy are great hosts and the city is full of things to do. Of the five days we were there, it only drizzled in one of them.
Nos llevo casi tres años visitar a nuestro amigo Eric despues de que se cambio a Seattle, pero finalmente lo hicimos. Eric y Wendy nos hospedaron en una ciudad llena de cosas por hacer. Y la mejor parte es que en los cinco dias que estuvimos alla, solo sereno en uno de ellos (Seattle es famoso porque llueve todo el tiempo).
Wednesday The first place we visited when we got there was the Pike Market. What a wonderful place, full of flowers, fish, people, fruits, shops, and places to eat!
El primer lugar al que fuimos fue al Mercado Pike, donde habia flores enormes y baratas, pescado y mariscos, fruta, tiendas y restaurantes al por mayor.
Thursday On Thursday we went to see the Ballard Locks. These locks are used to allow the flow of boats from fresh water (Lake Washington) to salt water (Pudge Sound.) Hector was completely amazed on how cool these things are and that they work on such a simple principle: gravity. There are no pumps or other source of power to fill the locks with water.
El jueves fuimos a la presa Ballard, que junta agua del Oceano Pacifico con agua de rio. Hector quedo fascinado con como funcionaba la presa. Basicamente, se usa la fuerza de gravedad para llenar y vacear de agua la presa.
(more pictures of the locks coming soon) We also saw a "fish-ladder" that was built to allow the Salmon coming from the Pacific Ocean go into the Lake Washington to breed. We could see the Salmon swiming upstream and jumping. Faboulous! On our way back we walked on Market Avenue (on Ballard.) The port feeling of Seattle reminded us a little bit to Manzanillo (Colima.) We stopped at an Italian place to have appetizers and beer...as it turned out those "appetizers" were actually our dinner :)
Tambien vimos una escalera para peces, construida para que el Salmon nade corriente arriba desde el mar hasta el nacimiento del rio, donde ponen sus huevos. Nos toco ver a los salmones nadando y brincando en la escalera. De regreso caminamos por la calle principal del pueblo, el cual nos recordo a Manzanillo, Colima, en cuanto a que es un puerto. Comimos algo en un restaurante italiano antes de regresar.
Friday We woke up late and went to have lunch with Eric to the Pike Market. He took us to a famous place (Ivar's) for fish n' chips. After lunch we stopped in the fire department right by the water and Eric asked the fire fighters if they could give us a tour of one of the boats that they use to put out fires in the sea. We walked inside the Chief Seattle boat, saw the engines, controls, and the cabin.
Nos depertamos tarde el viernes y fuimos a lonchar con Eric al Mercado Pike; nos llevo a un lugar famoso por su pescado con papas llamado Ivar's. Despues del lunch, Eric consiguio que los bomberos nos dejaran subirnos a un bote de bomberos que tiene su estacion junto al puerto. Asi que nos subimos al bote Jefe Seattle.
Then we went back to the Pike Market to visit the three floors of shops. There are shops for every imaginable thing in there: book, crafts, magic, antiques, arts, collectibles, posters, you name it, it's there. Later in the afternoon we went to the Pioneer Square. We got there late and most of the shops were already closing, but we got into a nice antique shop. Hector had to drag Karla out of this shop before they kicked us out for staying after hours :)
Luego regresamos al mercado a bobear en los tres pisos de tiendas: librerias, tiendas de magia, artesanias, colleccionables, posters, antiguedades, en fin, de todo lo que se me pudo ocurrir. Mas tarde nos fuimos en metro al Pioneer Square (plaza de los conquistadores), pero llegamos tan tarde que ya estaban cerrando los negocios. Hector tuvo que sacar a Karla a rastras de una tienda de antiguedades antes de que nos corrieran.
Saturday On Saturday we took the ferry to Bainbridge Island. On our way to the island we could see better Seattle's skyline. We took a couple of pictures of this.
El sabado tomamos un bote a la isla Bainbridge,que queda como a media hora. Desde el bote vimos la ciudad de Seattle y tomamos unas fotos.
We had lunch in the island and then we headed to a winery. We tasted no less than 4 wines each of us -- that's right, that is 16 drinks, but each of them very small :)
Lonchamos en la isla y de ahi nos fuimos a un viñedo. Probamos no menos de cuatro vinos casa uno de nosotros (asi es, 16 bebidas) aunque para ser sinceros, estaban muy chicas las copas.
At night we went back to Eric's home and had Thai for dinner. After that we watched the extended version of Lord of the Rings (LOTR). As it turned out both Eric and Karla are LOTR freaks.
En la noche regresamos a la casa de Eric y cenamos Tailandes. Despues vimos la version larga de El Señor de los Anillos. Resulto que Eric y Karla son fanaticos.
Sunday Sunday morning we went to Snoqualmie Falls. On our way to the falls we saw the other side of Seattle: the mountains. We drove for about 45 minutes to get there. There wasn't as much water on the falls as in other months since it hadn't rained in Seattle for almost 3 months (imagine that!) but they were still beautiful. We walked down to the foot of the falls were we actually could feel their breeze. Karla had a hard time walking back up from the falls to the car. She is getting to much used to our lovely flat Missouri.
La mañana del domingo nos fuimos a la cascada Snoqualmie. De ida a las cascadas vimos otra parte de Seattle: las montañas. La cascada tenia poca agua porque no ha llovido en Seattle en tres meses (cosa rara), pero aun asi se veia gradiosa. Hector y Karla bajaron al pie de la cascada a sentir la brisa. A Karla le costo mucho subir la colina de regreso (estaba empinada); al parecer ya se acostumbro al Missouri plano.
On the afternoon we went to see the Space Needle. Hector couldn't leave Seattle without going to its observatory. He had a personal trauma since he couldn't see the needle for the first two days we were there (perhaps he needs new glasses.)
En la tarde fuimos a ver el Space Needle (aguja espacial) pues Hector no podia regresar de Seattle sin subirse a su observatorio (desde que llegamos no habia visto la aguja, a pesar de que se ve casi desde cualquier lugar en Seattle; Karla la habia visto todo el tiempo, sera tiempo de ordenar lentes nuevos?)
For dinner we went to a fancy restaurant (Elliot's) with Eric and Wendy. The food was wonderful.
Cenamos en Elliot's, un restaurante de mariscos elegante con comida excelente.
Monday We barely saw Mt. Rainier while we were at Seattle, but we got this great shot of it during our flight back.
Mientras estuvimos en Seattle, apenas pudimos ver Monte Rainier, pero desde el avion nos toco verlo en todo su esplendor entre las nubes.

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