Day Nine

Got up earlyish at 7.30am ready to rock and roll. Ate breakfast in room again and we were packed and ready to go at 9am. Fuelled up and hit I-5 northwards.

We couldn't check in to the hotel in Seattle until 4pm, so we decided to do a couple of things on the way. The first being this place: https://www.americascarmuseum.org/

America's Car Museum

We had researched museums last night to see what was about and plumped for this one. So glad we did, it was awesome. It was a typical American museum, very good presentation and layout. Here is just a small selection of stuff there.

Countach

Flags

Caddy

Main Hall

It was a 'Take a Spin' day which meant they had six classic cars giving people a couple laps around a small track outside. The cars varied in type and size from a Model T Ford to a 2CV. We rode in them all to test them out. Here is a selection.

 

 

Eventually we decided to let other people have a go and headed back in side to finish the museum.

Had lunch in the restaurant - cheesy chips which were very good.

Next we decided that as we still had a bit of time to kill we would have another round of golf. Headed to http://www.parklandputters.net/index.htm

The website makes it look better than it is. Probably the worse mini golf place we have ever been to. There were four courses of varying degrees of difficulty so we picked the hardest. I say we, I mean me.

 

Ann soon decided it was impossible and seemed to give up. The reason it was difficult was not the overall hole design, but just the cups were all on slopes so the ball kept rolling bloody miles if you missed.

The final hole was just as silly as the one at Wallowa Lake, but this time we both ended up in the same place so no controversy. I won't mention the scores but I won!

We didn't hang around long despite being given a first and second place ribbon by the course.

We hit I-5 again but this time it was busy. Very busy. Headed slowly all the way to Seattle before the sat nav caused us to miss our turning by it saying stupid things. Eventually made it to the Hilton Seattle. Checked in and went to our room on the 24th floor. When we were looking for somewhere to stay in Seattle it was apparent that everywhere cost an absolute fortune, so decided as we were going to have to spend a lot of money we might as well go the whole hog. We are in an executive room which means we get to go to the executive lounge on the top floor, which we did. Had free drinks and hors d'oeuvres.

We then headed out into the balmy evening. Walked a couple of blocks to the monorail station. Yes, the monorail station. Caught the monorail to the Seattle Centre where we then headed up Seattle's most famous feature.

Space Needle

Got to the top and had a look around. Unfortunately, the same wildfire smoke that was at Mount St Helens is also here, so the view was limited a touch. We found a good spot and then waited for the sun to go down so we could get some decent photos of the city at night.



Tossed Salad and Scrambled Eggs



Having waited for a long time we headed down into the shop and spent some money.

Caught the monorail back and walked the last couple of blocks back to the hotel. Got accosted by some bloke who we just ignored, he then proceeded to shout NASA at us as I was wearing a NASA t-shirt. Most odd.

Back in room now. Ann is asleep. I will be very soon. Up early in the morning for another exciting day.

States visited - 6

Classic cars ridden in - 6

Space Needles ascended - 1