Seattle - June 1

Cider tasting

Today’s tour is called “Seattle’s Underground”. Seattle’s

Waterfront 

origin story involves flooding, a fire, and rebuilding. The results of this are steep hills and underground areas and passageways. They can be seen as basements today, but were the ground floors of Seattle’s first buildings before the streets were elevated. Out of the 33 city blocks of Old Seattle’s underground , we tour 3. I thighs there would be a bit more to see, but the appeal of this tour was the guide’s stories. Not all of the areas we visited were connected, so we went down, then, up, down then up a few times.

Fletcher Bay Wines

As today was our last day, one last happy hour

One last seafood meal

was in order. We visited Locust Cider for a tasting flight of 4 ciders, 8 really because we both had 1. All of their ciders are apple based and then flavours are added before they are finished. All were fruit based (peach, watermelon, pineapple) but the oddest one was cucumber…it was quite tasty.

Evening skyline 

In the evening we took the 30 min ferry to

2 stadiums 

Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound. About 25,000 people live on the island. One of the draws of Bainbridge Island is their wine tasting rooms. The grapes are grown in eastern Washington, the wine is made one the island, but

Cool building adornment

not at the tasting rooms. We visit 2 tasting rooms, get a seafood dinner and make the 9:00 ferry back.