Day 4: Seattle

Morning dawned and we'd made it through the night raccoon-free. We broke out the camp stove to make pancakes for breakfast. We put on a pot of water to boil for hot drinks and set about getting things ready for massive pancake making. WHOMPH. Gee, the camp stove is on fire. We got everything put out and tried it again, but I started smelling propane so everything got turned off and I dumped soapy water over the hose and pipes. Sure enough, we have bubbles. No hot breakfast for us, it’s another day of cold cereal.

We decided to take the ferry from Bremerton (where we're staying) to Seattle since it was free and we wouldn’t need to worry about the car in the city. This really turned out to be the best plan. After an hour, the ferry dropped us off at the city center and we stopped into a little place called Thai 65 for lunch. We had veggie tempura (green beans, kombucha squash, eggplant, sweet potato) with a sweet chili sauce, I had the Rama Garden with Tofu (steamed veggies, tofu, and rice with a peanut sauce) and Sarah had the Ba Mee Hang (rice noodles, tofu, steamed veggies and some sort of broth). We were stuffed and ended up having to leave food, which was disappointing, but we couldn’t really carry take-out boxes in our backpacks all day either.

We meandered around downtown, being tourists and looking at all the neat buildings, and headed to the monorail. In 90 seconds, we were a mile away at the Space Needle. Thirty-two bucks (!!) later we were at the top of the Needle, looking around down at Seattle. It was pretty neat (I don’t know about thirty-two dollars neat…). After a little while we jumped back on the monorail and went back downtown and headed to Pike Place.

Pike Place was really cool, but we got there about fifteen minutes to five, so a lot of people were closing up shop already. We didn’t see any flying fish, but we did buy some cherries and strawberries to eat while we walked. We almost ate vegan cookies at Cinnamon Works, a vegan/gluten free/ sugar free bakery right across from Pike Place, but we decided to come back after we had walked around the market, but when we came back they were closed.

Sarah finally admitted her feet hurt (I’m glad she said it first and not me!) and we headed back to the pier to catch the ferry back to Bremerton. A looooong hour later, we were back at camp and Sarah made a much better and injury free fire. We gave in to the need for something warm and heated water over the fire and enjoyed raccoon-free hot apple cider. Tomorrow we set out for Canada!