Catching up - Part three - up to date, I hope!

Hopefully this post will bring you all up to date on what's been happening and where we are  in our journey.
Monday, July 8th - This was primarily a day of driving from Missoula to Seattle, WA, so it was basically a day on the road.  We found that the eastern part of Washington was a lot like Kansas, flat and uneventful.  However, when we got into the middle of it, and finally to the western part of the state, the mountains are truly beautiful Once we checked into our hotel, we did manage to find this really cool, upscale area in the northern part of Seattle, called University Village (mainly because it's in the center of the University of Washington).  The main reason to go there was to keep an appointment at the Apple Computer store to see if they could help us with our dilemma of not being able to get pictures into our blog.  The person from the genius bar didn't seem to have any solid ideas so the sage continues.  Our friend Stella Hastings told us she seems to think that we need a computer to be able to insert the pictures so we'll keep on trying and if we  can't get them in before we get home , we'll make our final post one of a bunch of pics of the highlights of our trip.  We also had a really nice meal at a Micro-brewery (figure that one out) and then back to the hotel for a good nights sleep.  BTW today we turned over 4000 miles so far(that's more than the car had on it when I bought it).
Tuesday, July 9th - Happy Birthday, Nathan!!!! We did manage to sleep in a bit today as we didn't have anything set to do .  So we first headed to Pike's Place Market.  And what was the first thing we saw when we arrived "fish, they were flying everywhere".  The guys at the market were hurling fish as people picked out what they wanted from the  displays.  We spent most of the morning walking the market which was several blocks long and had some very interesting stuff.  The thing that really blew us away were the flowers.  Huge bouquets of flowers for anywhere from $5.00 to $15.00 per bunch.  There was jewelry, food, clothing, and just about anything you can think of.  We had a great lunch at a place called Etta's fish house, the food was awesome. Of course we had seafood.  Lynn had a shrimp roll and I the famous Grilled Salmon of the Pacific Northwest.   We then visited the first Starbucks coffee shop. Really small but very cool. We decided that we would take the DUCK tour of Seattle (we did this in Pittsburgh once and had a great time) so we thought lets give it a try.  It was great.  Our driver/guide was hysterical and we saw a lot of the city and had a chance to see it from Lake Union as well.  While on the tour we saw he houseboat from the movie "Sleepless in Seattle"(Lynn made me put that part in).  After the tour we walked around in a park called City Center, where you find the Space Needle, the Chihuly Glass Art Exhibition, and some other really cool stuff.  We then decided to go back to the University Village and look around some more, as the night before the stores were closing as we finished dinner.  We had dinner at a little diner in front of our hotel and it was great.  All in all, a great full day in Seattle.