June 1 – June 4: We had 4 days in the Seattle/Tacoma KOA Kampground, which is located in Kent, WA. I think I prefer staying at my brother’s house in Ballard, but it’s all part of the adventures of staying in a “variety” of areas!
We didn’t get to see everyone we’d like to have seen, but we did see ALL the family, which was great…although I didn’t take photos, except of Grace! We did get to have dinner with one of my best friend’s from high school years, Beth Malloy and her husband, Steve … as usual, it was like no time had passed since we’d last seen each other.
We took the ferry to Bainbridge on Saturday and then went to the Chihuly Museum in the Seattle Center on Sunday in addition to having brunch with Tom’s sister, Cyn and her kids Hilary and Christopher and Hilary’s man (as Grace would say), John. Then dinner and late birthday for Tom and early birthday for Grace at J & K’s with K’s sisters, Alison and Elizabeth. No pictures…but ton’s of pictures from Chihuly and the Seattle skyline.
And the Tacoma Narrow’s Bridge…which so many of us learned about in Physics class due to it’s collapse after first being built. Resonance frequency.
The 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge, the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge, was a suspension bridge in the U.S. state of Washington that spanned the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound between Tacoma and the Kitsap Peninsula. It opened to traffic on July 1, 1940, and dramatically collapsed into Puget Sound on November 7 of the same year. At the time of its construction, the bridge was the third-longest suspension bridge in the world in terms of main span length, behind the Golden Gate Bridge and the George Washington Bridge.
The Traveling Lounsburys 