Up Up and Away...in a beautiful....er ah ..Seaplane?

As long as I live I will say, there is no place more beautiful than Seattle on a sunny day. Granted we've had several sunny days of late which means its not only beautiful...but smoggy.

That aside, Blueberry and I took a scenic tour of Seattle. Its one of those things that you never do in your own neighborhood, so for Blueberry's birthday I bought us a scenic tour. A bit spendy for 20 minutes of flight, but it was worth it. I mean how often do you get to fly in a plan that lands on the water?

We got to Seattle early and stopped at the essential place one must always stop before flying in a small 6 seater plane...Starbucks! What? You thought bar didn't you?

This is the small tiny-ish plane we flew in. This wasn't our plane but we flew in one just like it and just as small. Oh and no air conditioning in these babies. These planes take off and land on Lake Union. Lake Union is usually covered with boat enthusiast and kayakers. How these planes avoid them all when they land is beyond me.

Ahh the Space Needle. Such a iconic item of Seattle. It's like 512 feet or something like that...so being higher than it was a thrill. The wart to the right of the Space Needle is the Experience Music Project. Paul Allen (Geeksoft kabillionaire) decided to build this and I think he believed people would flock to it like mecca. Not so much.

So if you've not been to Seattle then you probably don't know its got water everywhere. Puget Sound to the West, Lake Union, Lake Washington and Lake Sammamish to the east. Having lakes means that getting to and from requires either 1) driving around or 2) bridges. Seattle is home to two floating bridges. Yes they really do float. This is the 520 Bridge. It has pontoons that help it float. It fascinates me to this day that these floating, concrete death traps exist.

This is a vie coming in to land. Seattle in the background and Lake Union in the foreground. Again, see all those little dots...those are boats. This plan has to some how come in and land without hitting any of the boats. The pilot did tell us the planes have the right of way...which makes me wonder why it matters if the plane hits a boat.

And to wrap up the weekend Blueberry got our fair share of Pirates. My. God. Orlando Bloom is hot, hot, hot, hot, hot in the movie. Whew.... I need a cold shower I think.

UK folk in town this week so work will prove to be busy. The Big Guy is coming this time so we probably have to be on our best behavior. Oh the pressure.