Seattle

 Reed and I drove to Seattle the first part of June...we stayed with his brother and sister-in-law...the view from their balcony! 

                                          Morning walk to the beach...

                                          Breakfast at the neighborhood cafe...Serendipity

 The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet!  From the novel by Jamie Ford...the Panama Hotel is still open for business...

                                          its historical significance...

 The owners have cut a viewing window into the floor so that one can see some of the trunks and artifacts still remaining in the basement...when the residents of "Japantown" were "relocated" to internment camps, they left many of their possessions stored here...many never returned to retrieve them.

 We were invited to enter the hotel proper, tour the rooms which have been refurbished to the standard of 1910, when the hotel was built...bathrooms down the hall, literally "bath" rooms, and w.c.s separate from rooms and bathrooms! Men and women use the same w.c., but different bathrooms.  So interesting!  Many lovers of the book visit, some bring whole book clubs to soak up the history! 

 The real reason for the trip...baseball!  The Yankees were in town and Reed wanted to watch them play the Mariners.  Ichiro still gets the love from Seattle fans...they played "Welcome Back" when he got up to bat.

                                        We rode the ferry to Bainbridge Island for breakfast...   

                                      The return trip...

                                        Seattle skyline...