7/25/18-Plans for Seattle

Mom:

So excited to be going to Seattle! We are travelling by train on Saturday, 8/11, and will arrive in Seattle that following Monday. This blog, I hope, will be a way for us to commemorate the events on that trip and maybe get a a few laughs along the way.

This blog is a dialogue between me and my son, Nick. I'm really interested in getting his thoughts on this trip. So here goes the experiment.

Nick, what do you think?

I think this trip will be fun and I hope I will have a really fun experience during this trip to Seattle.
What I am excited for is, the train ride because we will have fold out beds and will sleep on the train which will be fun.
    Once we arrive we will go to a car museum and see different generations of cars. Once we are done with that we will go to Pike Market. And the Gum wall is near there.

Mom:

Nick, you have no idea - we have so much planned for our time there. We will be staying in Tacoma for the first few nights in a hotel that is on the wharf surrounded by water. Joy, our niece (in-law), grew up in Olympia and knows alot of the area. She will be out there with us and we hope that she will hang along for the ride most of the time. Mark will also be coming but later in  the week.

I look forward to the train ride too. I think it will give us the time to unplug and just hang out. It will be like we will be in our own little cocoon:-) By the way, I heard about the gum wall and thought, "we HAVE to go there. " EEEWWWWW.

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