Ruth’s friend, Cheryl, came out to visit from Vermont. She had a some training to do for work and she “had” to come all the way to Seattle to do it. So she extended her stay in order to spend time with us. We went up to Seattle to meet her after her training was done.
We took our time heading up by taking a detour through Point Defiance Park in Tacoma. We walked around Fort Nisqually, built similar to Fort Vancouver.
Magnus got to chase the ducks by a pond that was filled with turtles and fish.
We only had a short time at Point Defiance, because we were waiting for a ferry to Vashon Island in the Puget Sound. Magnus was very excited about the boat ride and kept saying “ME!…on a boat.”
Vashon Island has an interesting landmark: a bike that has been grown into a tree over about 60 years. Stories vary as to how it got there, but recently someone came forward and says it was his when he was young. It was a bike that he was embarrassed to ride so he hid it in the woods and told his mother he lost it. No matter how it got there, it is still a bike in a tree…weird.
Back on a ferry bound for South Seattle.
We found Cheryl at her hotel and headed out for dinner. There were a lot of Vietnamese restaurants nearby, and we had never tried Vietnamese food, so off we went. We all got pho and it was very good. Magnus insisted on eating his noodles with chopsticks and did better than we thought he would.
We made a short visit to Kerry Park on Queen Anne Hill, to see the pretty lights.
Magnus liked running around the park like an airplane. But then when we stopped to take a picture together he wanted to pretend he didn’t know us.
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