04.23.2013 Driving to Seattle!

Now that we're all here, lets go!

Today we are driving to Seattle! We're only going for two days and then returning to Vancouver. We're also making a stop at the Tulip festival in Skagit Valley. I made a list of things to see along the way, and we surprisingly were able to cross out most of it especially since shopping took us longer than we thought haha.

Heading to the airport... You can actually rely on the transit system to get places.

slim pickings

border gate

what is this an ad for?

the wall! 

And welcome to Skagit Valley's Tulip festival

I've only seen rows and rows of colourful tulips from the train in the Netherlands so I least expected to find it's twin here. Wouldn't it be so nice to cycle across fields and fields of this? I can imagine it would be like riding alongside a rainbow..! 

Nonetheless, we arrived near the end of season, so there were only two farms left still open. The largest one being Roosengaarde, claiming to have 1000+ acres of tulips and another one somewhere around the corner. Ottawa's tulip festival ain't got nothin' on this.

There are people guarding the flowers because you aren't allowed between the rows, and you will get yelled at but everyone does it when the guard turns his back.

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the tree is lumpy

!! but instead i bought a duck umbrella

dinner tapas at ocho

View from Gasworks

I was told one of the best things about Seattle is their parks. It was already getting late after dinner, but I wanted to see this place. I was hoping for sunset but we got lost. The roads were dark and unfamiliar and REALLY hilly. Like, you could turn a corner and the street below you would disappear because it's so steep. It was like being on a roller coaster, except we're driving the caboose. Can you imagine cycling this city?

Luckily, as creeped out my friends were about going to a park at night, the view was super. As we were leaving, we bumped into a bunch of people holding LED letters. We stood around trying to figure out what they were trying to spell until they asked us to join them/help them hold letters. Sure, why not..

"Protect the Sacred! hoo-hah!" they cheered final photo, Alex Garland

It took us a long while to get home. It was dark, and our GPS was making us go in circles. I feel like we crossed the bridge three times. We finally got suspicious because the place we were staying at shouldn't be too far, and then noticed that the GPS said that we were thousands of kilometers away, which was even more fishy.. Turns out we pushed the button for Sara's work (which is in Toronto), instead of Seattle hotel...I'm glad we hadn't driven to halfway across America to Toronto yet.

Seattle 2013