Boeing manufacture of Flight

On our way out of Seattle today, we paid a visit to the Boeing place.
Quite interesting to see and fead about different planes and how and what they do.

This one was hanging overhead.

The inside of a cockpit that people could sit in and get a feel of all the dails etc that pilots need to operate.

Very important are the tyres and unlike what a lot of people apparently think, the tyres are made from the same rubber as bicycle or car tyres.

Lunch was Mexican and as we didnt know what to order  John ordered for us, it was good but we couldnt finish it all and we only had a late and light dinner tonight.

This had pork in it.

 This one was chicken and we shared some of each. I had always thought Mexican was hot but not so.

Washington State

We needed to go thru customs before we got on the ferry. It was quite easy though, as an officer came to the car, checked our passports and asked a couple of questions mainly about us, the Australians. Once onboard, it was deemed American land.

Olympica is the capital of Washington and we dropped in to
see the Government buildings.

Massive buildings and lovely gardens around them.

Pumpkins, boats and Junk shops

Yesterday we set out for the ferry at Victoria BC. As we had time we called at our friends store, she calls it a junk shop but it is well laid from what I could see. We had lunch with them a couple of weeks ago.

Luqi had some news for us, she is taking her daughter back to China to visit her mother and step father. We think its the first time since she left China seven years ago.

A totem pole in the alley way next to Luqi 's store.

We continued on to Victoria and saw an RV park with floating houses and boats as well.

Beautiful weather as can be seen by the sky.

Gardens in Victoria harbour, later we sailed in the waters behind, by ferry.

Last night we went to a supermarket, lots of pumpkins.

Halloween is just around the corner.

This morni g we stopped for coffee at a small cafe, they had pumpkin pie and I tried it, humm not my favourite. The server, who it seemed to be a mum and dad business, his wife did the baking, brought a piece of pecan pie to the table after hearing that we had not had one.  I thought my understanding of the language was alright until he had said P'carn, was what I heard, oh, pee can. Oh yes, I liked that more than the pumpkin.

A day of food

I tried different foods today. Breakfast was a chocolate milk, unusual for me but we were going to be travelling so I thought I should have something as I didnt know when we would get a chance to have lunch. Silly me!

It was foggy when we started driving, the scenery is amazing and I am still blown away by the massive trees that line the roadways.

Morning tea was a stop at Tim Hortons, we had only been to the famous Tims once before for an iced coffee so I had to try something, my choice was a med hot chocolate and three bite sized apple strudel,  I didnt need three but that was the deal. Warren had a double double coffee (that means double milk and double sugar in the coffee) and a strawberry jam donut and couldnt beleive that it was only $5.35 for both.

We got to Victoria  BC and walked to Fishermans Wharf where we thought we should have something to eat as we had a ferry to catch, we needed to be there 90 minutes before as we had to clear customs and immigration  and then the ferry ride was another 90 minutes.

Plenty of choice here, our table went for two fish and chips, a Mexican meal and I chose a salmon taco. A nice piece of salmon on a bed of lettuce, all wrapped in a soft taco, yum!

We didnt really feel hungry at dinnertime so we took a trip to a supermarket  (we were in USA by then). Oh, that was different. I got some sweet and sour pork, there was hot plate and several hot meals ready to go. It was served in a cardboard box. We also bought some cereal and milk ready for breakfast in the morning as we are heading further into America.

Different shops/stores

A couple of stores that I found of interest.

A Flip Flop Shop.

The last two were taken in a Sporting store, there were many stuffed animals on top of shelves and on the walls. This was a display at the back of the store. There were Elk, Moose, a cougar a big horned sheep and other smaller animals.

A Different Shopping Experience

Went to a mall yesterday. The guys went to a movie and we checked out the stores seeing what was the same and what was different.

We visited a clothing store and one of the assistants came over,  welcomed us and explained where things were, they had some red ticket items (sale).

I picked up a couple of things that I wanted to try on. Same lady came over and chatted about them and then asked me a question. I was surprised that I didnt understand her and said "Im sorry could you say that again please". A little slower and louder she again said what I thought she said "Can I prepare a room for you" what?

Feeling a little preplexed I told her I didnt understand what she meant.

As I had some items in my hand, she had asked what I thought she said but didnt it make any sense to me. In this store if you want to try clothes on, they take the clothes into a changing room and when finished looking, you can then go to that room and try on the clothes. A very different experience.

When we did go to the changing rooms, there were the items that I had chosen hanging up, another assistant was in the area and told that she could get other colurs or sizes for me if I needed them. My name was written ib chalk on the one of the doors.

Three hooks inside the changing room, with Love it,  not for me and Tempted. Jenny did bring me another top as I requested, in  a smaller size!

Some items were 50% off and because I bought two items the second one was a further 20% down. I did buy two pr of jeans, two other pr of pants and a ful, price top all for $143, got to be happy with that, I certainly was. Now to fit them in my suitcase.

The Whimscal Forest

We walked thru this forest yesterday, its not that far away but first we visited the biggest ammo box in Canada. It is a geo cache a few kms away then John dropped us at the entrance to the forest.

Massive trees again and although there are trails through the forest, they are not as defined as the others, but still easy to walk along.

There are interesting additions along the way such as little mushrooms, gnomes, small ceramic pieces,. It was so cool to find all the little bits and pieces that people had left.

A holly bush.

Warren using a frond to break through spiders webs. 

There were four caches in and we found them all and then made our way out to the main road then walked down to the beach.