Day Thirteen - Saturday

For those of you keeping track, it is just me (Katie) now. It was a tearful goodbye this morning, but reality probably won't really sink in until August when we don't go back to school. For now, it just feels like summer. It's crazy, you live with someone for three years and spend nearly everyday with them and then all of a sudden they're just gone. It is at that point that you realize how much you enjoyed their company. But, on to the travels of the day.

I left Kathryn's house fairly early and successfully found my mom at the airport. Then we headed down to the Space Needle which was a cool view of the city, although it was quite cloudy today so you couldn't see very far. After that we headed to Pike Place Market to explore a bit and see the fish market. The original plan was then to take a boat ride out on Puget Sound. However, my mom really wanted to see the real ocean. So, after looking at the map we decided we could make the 130 or so mile trip to the ocean and back to Seattle. So, off to the ocean it was.

We ended up in Ocean Shores, Washington which is by far the coolest beach I have seen. You can literally drive right into the ocean if you want to. For as far as you could see it was nothing but beach, ocean, sky, and pepole and their cars along the beach. There were only a couple hotels and even those at least several hundred yards off the beach. It wasn't overdeveloped or a tourist money scam. You could simply drive to the water, park your car, and enjoy the ocean. It was my mom's first time seeing the ocean so she was quite excited. And I can now say that I have been to both the Atlantic & the Pacific Oceans.

After some time at the beach we made our way back to Seattle and found the church I want to go to tomorrow morning. Then the challenge was finding a hotel...not an easy feat outside of downtown Seattle. After over an hour of driving around we had success and now I'm calling it a night.

Quote of the day:
"Nothing is waste that makes a memory." - Ned Rorem