Duck Tour {Aug 15}

One of the things we had talked about doing ever since we knew we were going to Seattle for the summer was go on a Duck Boat tour. We finally decided to go the last week before we left, and although we had been to a lot of the places, it was fun to see a few new ones and get a different perspective on others we had been to. Bennett was definitely the most excited. We had been seeing the duck boats all summer and he would point them out every time and kept asking if we could go on one. It’s pretty hard to take pictures from a moving vehicle so a lot of the ones I tried to take turned out blurry or you could only see half of what I was trying to photograph. Our boat ride on Lake Union was especially pretty with the sun setting. Last week (~ a month after the duck tour) we were driving somewhere and somehow, Bennett and I started talking about Christmas. He said that he wanted Santa to bring him a “quacker”. Me: “a cracker?”. Bennett: “no, a quacker”. Me: “what’s a quacker?” Bennett: “It makes noises like a duck quacking. I saw one on the duck boat we went on”. How did he even think of that? He hadn’t ever mentioned it before.

Bennett’s one-eyed attempted smile with the duck behind; the worker man outside the Seattle Art Museum; and a neat fire station entrance (which is, of course, cropped funny and blurry)

Our entrance to Lake Union – you can’t see from the picture but there were several groups of people just hanging out on their docked boats.

On the left, not a great picture, but the green-ish house in the middle is the house from Sleepless in Seattle

We saw multiple versions of boat parking as we drove around the lake. There were several rows of structures like the one on the right with tons of boats.

 

On the left: some of the newer homes – and their big boats. On the right: “lots” for sale.

The Fremont Bridge opening up in front of us, and the Space Needle lit up on our walk from the duck tour to our bus stop. It was a beautiful night!