BOEING 777 in Seattle

Day 225

Seattle, Washington State, USA

Boeing and City Tour!

Before we headed off on our Boeing tour we headed downtown to McDonalds for breakfast because there isn't a breakfast included..and i'm' pretty sure we saw the real Seattle there.....i'd say.....we ate breaky with the homeless. We recognised a few from the night before..and it did occur to us that it's a VERY cheap meal to start the day with.

We had the Egg McMuffin Meal..and it only cost us $7.10 for the two of us to have a egg mcmuffin, a hash brown and a large coffee. Not bad really. No wonder that's the meal of the day for the homeless.

Apart from that..it was a beautiful morning. We've been so lucky here in Seattle! Such glorious weather...about 68F today!

The tour company picked us up at 9am to go on the tour..and it took about 40 minutes to drive out to the Assembly Plant of Boeing. It's the worlds largest building...472 million cubic feet by volume! Huge hey?

First, before we looked at the Assembly Plant, we went into the Boeing Museum - The Aviation Center - to look at the history of Flight..fascinating! We also went on a X - J Flight Similator!!!! And did some barrel rolls!!!

The girl said everyone could hear me scream! Greg was on controls..and me second in command..so he loved doing the spins while i screamed! It was fun!

The movie at the Aviation Centre theater was interesting too.

Who would have thought Seattle was the place where these MASSIVE 707's were assembled! What i found interesting was that they actually buy a lot of the parts from all over the world, assembly them here, and dispatch them. NO wonder the shed is so HUGE!

Boeing employs 29,000 people!

When we looked over the Assembly Centre....we had to put all our personal items into a locker....so we couldn't take camera...phone....bag....anything in....

They told us a guy took a camera in a few months before...dropped it over the edge..and it cost $250,000 to fix the damage as it landed on a plane!!!! Geepers....

We personally think it was because they were trying to prevent spies..but thier story sounded good.

In the afternoon we went on the City Tour and saw all the places we wouldn't otherwise see...without a car. Places like the Shipping canal..which had a memorial to the fishermen. 600 lives have been lost there. IT reminded me of the crabbers off Alaska..i know the seas are rough off here..and a lot of fishermen do lose their lives...sad.

We also went to Ballard Locks and saw where the salmon run.

Was good going on the tours...we met some great people.

Had fish and chips at the pier....at a place called the Salmon Cooker. YUMMY!!!!!

Weird getting there though...had to walk down the street (after watching about 10 fire engines attend a fire next door to us..took heaps of pics...how macarbe are we!) and then into Market St Pier..and down a HEAP of steps....about 5 flights...before we got to the road below...alongside Elliot Bay.

Was sort of scary climbing all those steps to get home again...was dark, cold, quiet..and a lot of beggars around.....

Again...downtown US is unsavoury at night!

But, i guess that's like any place..Northbridge is the same!

We got home safely anyway!

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