Sunny (Rainy) Seattle

rnrB & trkr hanging out with Lady Liberty in West Seattle


The running joke around the Pacific Northwest is if you don't like the weather wait a half hour and then you will. We decided to spend some time today hanging out around Alki Beach. When we first headed to the beach we were enjoying partly blue skies with a hint of clouds. We dined on a scrumptious lunch of albacore tuna salad with toasted pumpkin seeds, sprouts on 10 grain bread, mac & cheese and the most delicious chocolate crinkle cookies ever--at Alki Bakery. Then we combed the beach looking for polished glass. We always have great luck at Alki Beach in the polished glass hunt--I presume it's because the beach is subject to strong currents from where the Port of Seattle meets Puget Sound, the Duwamish River and the ever present shipping lane traffic. We usually leave Alki Beach with a ziploc full of highly polished glass of all sorts of colors--much more than what we ever seem to find at our beach much further South of Seattle.

As we combed the beach today we also found two small animals--one a lion and the other an orca. I was starting to wonder if a shipping container of plastic animals dumped its cargo somewhere around the Pacific!

Well, after combing the beach for about an hour, the weather suddenly changed for the worse. Thunder, lighting and a major deluge hit from out of nowhere. Fortunately, we made it to the refuge of our car before the worst hit. We hightailed it out of the area and as we made the 8 mile drive back to Mercer Island we experienced some of the most torrential downpours we've ever experienced in the Seattle area. There were times during the 8 mile drive that we literally could not see anything through the windshield. It was that bad!

Eventually we reach Mercer Island and make a run for Tillamook Ice Cream at the local grocery store. Mint chocolate chip is the BEST!!! We also took a gamble on Ben & Jerry's newest flava "Marsha Marsha Marshmallow". It's a winner! Although, I'll still have to pit it directly against Chubby Hubby to see which one will ultimately become my personal favorite. If they made either flava in mint, then that one would win hands down!!!