Inland Shipwreck

Hey Everyone!

Well, after more than 30 years of being alive, I have finally traveled outside of my home country of Canada this past weekend when I visited the beautiful city of Seattle, WA, USA with my fiancee Megan. I have to say I really enjoyed myself and I found that the people who live there are really quite nice, even after I told them we were Canadian. I think they just liked the fact that we were pumping money into their economy. I just wish that we had a little more time to see and do a few more things, but it's not like I'm never going back there again. I definitely plan on visiting again.

I'd like to give you guys a little recap on the events over the past weekend. The first night was simply traveling by ferry to Seattle from Victoria. We departed Victoria around 4:30 in the afternoon and arrived in Seattle roughly 3 hours later and made our way to our hotel by taxi. Unfortunately it was dark outside for most of the trip, so I wasn't able to see Puget Sound at all. I didn't get to see it on the way back either, but I'll tell you more about that in a minute. The hotel was adequate for Megan and me and it was clean, very important. After checking in, we had dinner in the restaurant downstairs where I got to see first hand how much bigger the portions are in the US. Megan ordered a starter size chicken strips with fries and she couldn't finish it! After paying the bill, we made our way back to our room and turned in for the night very tired from traveling.

The second day we woke up around 8:00 or so and had ourselves a very filling breakfast then headed out to see the sights. First stop: the Space Needle. Incredible views, people! That's really all I can say. We must have spent at least half an hour staring out at all the different vistas. Afterwards, we picked up a couple of souvenirs from the gift shop and dropped them off at the hotel before heading out again to do what Megan really wanted to do: go shopping! I'd have to say we did pretty well that afternoon. I even picked up a couple of things such as shirts, flannel pants for bumming around the house in, and a nice wool jacket. Megan got herself all kinds of nice new clothes too including a couple of things from Victoria's Secret. *rawr!* 

After all the shopping we were pretty hungry, so we ordered room service and relaxed for the rest of the evening watching TV. We had to be up really early the next morning because our ferry was supposed to leave for Victoria at about 8:00AM. Unfortunately a nasty storm blew in overnight and we discovered that the ferry had been canceled! When we arrived at the pier there was a line of busses waiting to take all of us passengers up to Vancouver to catch a ferry from there. After 3 hours of driving, not to mention an annoying 45 minute wait at Customs, we arrived at the Tsawwassen ferry terminal only to learn that those ferries had been canceled as well! That meant we played the waiting game again for another 3 hours or so until they finally decided to set sail around 3:00 PM. We would have been home before noon had we been able to catch the ferry from Seattle. As a result of all the delays, we didn't end up getting home until after 6:00PM. We had been up since around 5:30 that morning.

Needless to say, we were pretty tired. Making matters worse, Megan was battling a pretty bad cold for the entire trip. Other than the voyage home, and Megan's cold, we still had a lot of fun. We got to experience new things, dine on different cuisines, and shop at different stores. Both of us really enjoyed ourselves and as I said at the beginning, we will definitely visit again. My friends who know me on Facebook can see more photos there, but I've added a few here for you folks who may be reading this on my Inland Shipwreck page.