Staying Busy in Washington

On Tuesday afternoon, we went over to Whidbey Island to see Paige’s cousin, Dianne.  We also got to meet her son, Dillon.  She has a wonderful house right on Useless Bay so we went for a short walk down the shore.

 

We were surprised at how big this island is!  It is the 4^th largest island in the lower 48 states, being about 35 miles long by 1-1/2 to 12 miles wide.  We went out for supper and then headed home.  Dianne is getting ready to go back to work in the Arctic for the winter.  She’s a busy person!

Yesterday we bit the bullet and bought this little guy:

 

This is the satellite receiver called “Tailgater” that gets us access to Dish TV.  We’ve debated about going this route in the past, but we don’t have any access to TV here, even though we’re close to Seattle.  We can also use this at the cabin in the summer.  So, life is good here now that we can watch our shows.  Paige wasn’t happy that she missed Dancing With the Stars this week.

After Dish was set up, we went to Port Townsend for the afternoon.  A real nice little city on the ocean with TWO yarn stores!  We also stopped at a coffee shop and enjoyed watching the ocean.

 

Today we took a trip into the big city, Seattle.  We’ve always heard about Pike Place Fish Market in our working life as they have motivational tapes used in corporations.  So we went there and it was nice to see – but overpriced.  So we walked around all the shops and drove by the Space Needle and then headed back home.

 

Going to Whidbey Island and Seattle both required round trip ferry rides.  Those can sure run up the expense of an outing.  We were planning on going to Victoria and/or Vancouver in British Columbia but both of those trips require coming and going on even longer ferry trips, so we’ve decided to stay on the Olympic peninsula tomorrow and check out some wineries and scenic stops around here, plus the Dungeness Crab Festival in nearby Port Angeles.