Back to Washington - Day 2

Got up at 7am again for another long day. Went and had the free breakfast at the hotel, including biscuits and gravy, eggs, sausage, bacon, cereal, yogurt, waffles, coffee juice, etc (no, I didn’t eat all that) and got on our way around 8:30am. And it was another gloomy day as we headed out through more of Oregon. We stopped at one rest stop (mind you we also had my mom’s dog with us) and continued on. We planned to stop at the Mount St Helens Visitor Center on the way. We knew due to the weather that we wouldn’t see the mountain, but wanted to stop anyway. It was a nice center with a short but good video about the eruption. I was five when it happened, so only vaguely remember it being on the news, but watching the video was freaky. Remind me never to move close to an active volcano. The grounds around the center were pretty and the sky was amazing, so walked around and took a few pics. When we had gotten off that exit, we noticed a sign that said Burgers and Espresso that caught my eye, because how random is a burger and espresso joint? So we stopped there for lunch before getting back on the freeway/highway. Total hole in the wall place with a really nice early 20 something girl working there. The burgers were great, and we even got some ice cream for the ride. Surprisingly as we approached Seattle, the weather started clearing up and there were pretty blue skies. I checked the GPS on my phone and noticed 2 strips of high traffic areas, due to major accidents, coming up past Seattle. UGH… no fun. Probably added an hour to our trip, and it turned dark at this point. We just wanted to get to Anacortes. Think we arrived around 6:30ish. Then their boat (sorry… motor yacht) is docked about 1/5 of a mile down a couple of docks, so had to load up all of our stuff in carts and lug it down there. This is my first time seeing their new boat, since they just bought it last month I think it was. It’s beautiful and has so much more space than their last boat, more staterooms, more heads, more closets, more stairs, etc. They showed me around, and instead of being stateroom door to stateroom door with them, like on their last boat… I go from their stateroom, up the stairs to the salon, up the stairs to the galley, down the stairs to a hallway, then are 2 more staterooms and a head. My Mom jokes that I have my own wing, and that’s what it feels like. I’m on the opposite end of the boat. It was too dark to check out the upper helm or the bow, so that will wait til tomorrow. And we were too exhausted to fully unpack and straighten up, so pics of the boat will have to wait until tomorrow. So after we chatted a bit, I uploaded a few pics and wrote this and yesterday’s blog entries. Now being 11pm, I think I’m about to pass out. Night!