Well the cruise came to an end this morning. We said our goodbyes to Chase and Lauren. They went to the Vancouver airport for their flight home and Krista and I had transfers to the Seattle airport.
We had to meet up in the show lounge by 8:00 am. They finally loaded us on the bus around 8:30 am. We were all set to go we thought. We left the parking garage and they just made a circle and pulled in on the other side. None of us knew what was going on. We set there forever and then they started loading more people onto the bus. They ran out of space under the bus for luggage and had to put the last of it on the last row of the bus. We were finally full with 44 passengers and then we were off to Seattle. It was about 9:45 am by this time.
We arrived at the US Border about 10:30 am or so. From what I have been told this is a very easy process. The bus was sealed when we left Vancouver and the Border Patrol officers usually just step on the bus, look at passports and take up our immigration forms. Well it seems they weren't busy so they decided to make all of us on the bus get off with all of our carry on items and go inside the building to be screened. Well let me tell you, this was a pain.
Our bus driver was new and drove so slow. At one point I wanted to go up to the front and tell him to move over and let me drive. We finally arrived at Seattle airport around 1:30 pm or so. When I thought transfer to airport I thought they would let us off at the terminal. They took us to some remote parking lot and unloaded our luggage. We were not flying out but taking a hotel shuttle. We then had to walk down the sidewalk to the black building on the right and go in the first door. Take the elevator down to 2 and go across a skybridge into the parking garage and then take the elevator up to 3 go across the street and wait for the hotel shuttle. I was exhausted when we got to the hotel.
Once we got checked in, we took the Light Rail into downtown Seattle. We both love Seattle so were excited to be there. The first thing we saw when we got off the train were all these porta potties. We started looking around and figured out they were having some sort of gay pride celebration. Lots of crazy looking people walking around town.
We immediately went to Palace Kitchen to eat since we had eaten breakfast at 5:45 am and were very hungry. It was 3:30 pm at this point. We got to the restaurant and it didn't open until 5:00 pm. We went down the street to Top Pot Donuts but decided we didn't want to stay there an hour and a half so we treked off to REI. It was a difficult walk for me because part of it was straight up a hill but I made it. When we finished there we walked back to Top Pot and got our donuts and then on to Palace Kitchen to eat a delicious meal. After that it was time to take the light rail back to the airport along with all of our gay pride friends.
Once back at the hotel it wasn't long until it was time to go to bed because we had an early morning in the morning.
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