Thursday morning we got up fairly early and headed to the Ferry to cross over to Bremerton. I do have to share a funny thing here. When we were settled in our hotel room Wednesday night, Annie made the comment, "I need to call the ferries. I've never called the ferries before." Well the way she said it and how she said it just about did me in. I laughed until I had tears on my face and I literally could not breathe. Every time I would think about it, I would start laughing again and again and again. I'm sure Hayley thought her Gam had lost it and I just about had. I do love laughing that hard. It is good for the soul!
We weren't sure how the traffic would be at the dock so we actually got there about an hour and a half early. We had not had any breakfast, so we locked the car and walked along the streets of Seattle. Nothing was open that early in the morning but we did find a Star Bucks. We bought hot chocolate and some breakfast sandwiches. We wandered slowly back to the ferry and took a couple pictures along the way.
When we got back to the car we saw the ferry coming in and passing a huge cargo ship. It was fun to snap a picture as the ferry passed the cargo ship.
The ride to Bremerton was about an hour. Just long enough to get out of the car, take some pictures, find the bathrooms and stand on the front enjoying the beautiful scenery of Seattle.
As we drove off the ferry, Annie noticed a building that said Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and also notice a huge aircraft carrier docked near by. We thought of Emmi, who is now on an aircraft carrier for three weeks. So we pulled into the shipyard to take a little closer look at the boat. A security guy came over to the car and Lynda Ann explained to him that her daughter was in the Navy and we were curious about the ship. He told us that it was the Kitty Hawk. We were all surprised because that is the air craft carrier that my brother Donald spent his career on.
From here we headed to find Stadium High School. Another movie icon. Hayley was very excited when we drove up to it and got out and walked around. Apparently the high school is still in use and students were in school so we weren't able to go in the building but spent some time walking around it. It is a beautiful old building.
After walking around the building and seeing the football field we climbed back in the car and headed to Puyallup. Hayley was born in Puyallup, Washington but was a baby when they moved back to Utah so she doesn't remember much about her life in Washington. She wanted to see the house she lived in.
The home looked very much the same as it did years ago. It did have a red door, which was new. But, it basically looked just the same. I think we made the lady who lived there a little nervous. Her dog was going crazy and as we climbed in the car to leave we saw her come to the window. Good time to head out.
From there we headed to Oregon. We wanted to meet Diane for dinner at Justin's food truck and had just enough time to get to Oregon, check in our hotel and meet Diane. We had such a fun evening with Diane and her daughter. We had a delicious meal - compliments of Justin - and had a wonderful visit with Diane. It was so good to see her and get caught up on what she is doing.
Justin's food truck is the blue one in the back. There was a continual line the whole time we were there. we stayed and visited until about 10:00 and then back to the hotel where we were all ready for a good nights sleep.
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