There is a Tacoma Zoo and Aquarium too... they have new Beluga Whales, I just read. Maybe that's another thing to have on the list of options.
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Posted on 01/02/2007 9:57:39 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
I appreciate the tips! I think if we do Seattle, we may take a ferry across, that would be a neat way to do it, and then take in the Aquarium, which is right on the waterfront too.
Some are city people who would like things like the Pike Place Market and the Seattle Center, and some aren’t. I’m game if they want to do that. We’ve been wanting to take Rosie there, too, so she’s seen it. ;~)
Is there an Aquarium around there? I like that kinda thing. Pacific coast sea life is so different than Atlantic or Gulf coast that I would think it would be interesting. I’m such a rube that I like that kinda thing, but they might be more cosmopolitan.
There is a Tacoma Zoo and Aquarium too... they have new Beluga Whales, I just read. Maybe that's another thing to have on the list of options.
That dome thing is cool!
So you’ve got some options there...The day hike, the train, the beach house, the aquarium. And maybe by that time you’ll know them well enough to figure out some more things they might like.
Just try not to worry about it too much. They’ll enjoy what ever you decide to do. After all, the main purpose of their visit is to see Y’ALL, not to be entertained.
Yeah - just sometimes it’s better to keep a little busy :~)
When I was a kid, I decided I was going to have a dome like that in my house. :~)
It’s all very natural, it looks like you just went under the pier and you’re sitting on the bottom of Puget Sound.
How far are you from Olympia? I remember as a kid going up to visit my Aunt and Uncle and visiting the Olympia brewery. Isn’t there some lava pits or something like that there too? Maybe that was in NoCalifornia on our way up, been so long I can’t remember.
I’m in Olympia. The brewery is closed now :~( And empty and derelict. It’s really a shame. Miller Brewing bought it and ran it for awhile, but they got pushed out by the City wanting the brewery to basically pay for a new wastewater treatment plant. Charging them a fortune for their wastewater treatment. There were other factors, the brewery was small and needed updating, but the ransom the city wanted for wastewater treatment was one of the main factors. It’s not like the wastewater was particularly dirty, even. For years they got by with simple filters and drained into the river. It’s not like they’re dealing with toxic chemicals or something.
You’re right, though, it was a beautiful brewery in it’s day, with it’s copper cookers and everything always clean and freshly painted white. Sitting empty now, no one wants to buy it.
We don’t have any lava pits - I think those are in CA...
Oh what a shame, it was one of my childhood trips I remember so well because it really impressed me. I think you are right about the lava pits, I think they were in NoCal but they sure were interesting too.
The volcano was great, sitting under your trees is pretty alright too tho:)
Becky
OK - we’ll definitely do those things :~D
I got a phone call last night from, Debbie, the girl I fed horses for last winter. She needs me to feed again in July.
The reason I mention it is I’ve forgotten to tell you all the 1/2 Fresian horse she has (I can’t find the picture, he was black), way back at the beginning of May, hurt himself very badly. She puts him in a 12X12 pen just to eat. She fed him and looked back at him several minutes latter and he had somehow gotten over the panels the pen is made of and came down on a t-post. It got him in the chest, cracked his sternum, and punctured a lung.
Her vet came, of course, but said he couldn’t do anything and recommended that she take the horse to the OSU vet hospital in Stillwater, probably about a 2 hour drive. After she left to go the vet told her husband he didn’t expect the horse to make it. But he did, and last night she told me he is finally off the feeding tube, and only has one drainage tube still in him. That he is going to make it, and still be usable as a dressage horse. I guess he had a really bad time with infections and they almost lost him several times. She said he is very very skinny now, you can see the joint where his backbone connects to his hips:(, as he won’t eat much, because now they are treating him for ulcers he got from all the meds, and stress.
Very sad deal. I know that even tho she has lots of horses, this one was special for her. I think she paid a pretty good chunk for him when he was just a yearling, and had big hopes. She’s always wanted to compete in high level dressage.
Becky
What a terrible accident for that horse and owner. I can imagine the amount of time and devotion to that horse the owner gave, to make him better.
We (Alison, Amy and I) are going on a ride this morning. Then they are leaving for a horse show. It is not until tomorrow, but they have to be there early in the morning and it is a long drive. Same place cjhaspi was last week.
Everyone have a great weekend.
Sounds like fun:), are you riding Bodie?
Becky
Enjoy your ride MissT.
Have a good weekend everyone. Am going to see Deuce on Saturday and pick up Whitey’s things from the trainer. Been a rough week but time does help.
I usually send my charitable donations to something equine related. I think this year it will be laminitis research.
Man, that’s terrible about Debbie’s horse! Horses can find some of the gawdawfullest ways to hurt themselves I’ve ever seen. Whenever I hear about accidents like that, I always have to wonder what on earth that horse was thinking or what was going on for him to do that. Of course I know that we’ll never know, but I still wonder. I’m glad to hear that he pulled through and they think he’ll be able to compete again. I’d love to see pictures of him when you go over there. Fresians are just gorgeous!
Y’all have a fun ride. Take pictures!
I’ll be thinking about you on Saturday coz I know it’ll be hard. I’d give you a big hug if I could.
I think he is only part Fresian, and still young, so he was pretty lanky looking to me. I had pictures of him when I fed this winter, but I must have trashed them.
I asked her if he would be usable after all this, and she said yes, that that was one of the stipulations she made with the vets, that if he wouldn’t be she just wanted to put him down. She said the vet bill was horrendous at this point, she never said exactly other then thousands and thousands...yikes.
Becky
Thanks!
Yeah, I think most Fresians cost thousands and thousands and THOUSANDS, even as weanlings, so I guess that would probably justify a pretty high vet bill.
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