Prior to heading home for Christmas, I took a "business" trip to Seattle. Here are a smattering of photos from the trip. Seattle is on the list of places to visit in the summer, as you are within 2 hours of Mt. Rainier, Mt. St. Helens, Olympic National Park (with the only US rainforest), the Cascade Mountains, the Future of Flight Museum, the Museum of Flight, Boeing, Boeing, Boeing, continuous runways along the highways, oh, and downtown Seattle too! (What more could you possibly want?) Maybe these pictures will help...
I took a tour of the Boeing assembly plant (above). Unfortunately no cameras were allowed inside. The blue doors you see there are the end of individual assembly lines (e.g. 737, 747, 767, 787). Each door is the size of 3 football fields! The building is the largest in the world with a floor plan that would fit 95 football fields! For some inside pictures checkout their website: http://www.boeing.com/commercial/facilities/ Needless to say, it was facinating to see assembly lines that move 1.67 inches/minute (who moves the garbage cans every day or two?) and spare spar's (the massive steel I-beams that are in the center of all planes).
Every boy dreams of flying an SR-71 Blackbird at Mach 3.41 (this is an actual cockpit of a Blackbird that was wrecked).
Has anyone seen the President?
Pike's Place Market in downtown Seattle... the sign is supposed to be famous. No, I don't know why.
The Space Needle
Mt. Rainier
Seattle Waterfront
Pike's Place Fish Market. Yes, I saw them throwing fish. No, I'm not sure what the big deal was, except they were some big (expensive) fish!
Space Needle
Sunset over Puget Sound from the Space Needle
My favorite picture of downtown Seattle at dusk with Mt. Rainier in the background on the right!
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