A couple of weekends ago, I went up to Everett with Larry to check out Boeing. It turned out to be a nice sunny day (in the middle of a long string of overcast rainy days), so he wanted to go to a restaurant by Paine Field and watch airplanes take off and land. I had no idea he was such an airplane geek. Unfortunately, we found out that the restaurant was closed permanently when we got there.
We then headed off to look around Boeing. There were a lot of new planes outside of the hangers being painted and whatnot. We even saw a Presidential jet. I wonder how many the Executive Branch has. We decided to go to the museum by the plant although Larry had been there before. It was actually on the rather lame side; it was basically a big Boeing infomercial. There were also plant tours, but I wasn’t really interested, and Larry was only interested if he could see the 787s. However, the ticket person could not verify what the tours were looking at currently.
On the way out, we saw a much more, um, enthusiastic guy waiting around the airfield. He comes down all the time to watch the new airplanes take off and land, and he knew far more about the airport operations than probably the people who work there do. He was waiting for a new plane to leave for Dubai, and as luck would have it, we saw it leave. The planes waggle their wings “goodbye” when they leave Boeing for the last time; I was amused by that.
We then decided to go to Marymoor Park were Adlai was playing an organized Ultimate game. We stopped by Whole Foods first for a snack… only the second one I have entered… the first being in Boulder. It was nice and expensive as one might expect.
After mistakenly going to a youth girls soccer tournament, we found out where the Ultimate games were being played. On some very nice artificial turf fields… the Eastside certainly has some nice parks. We walked up right when Adlai scored a goal or whatever they call them in Ultimate. I was amused that his team were all wearing Waimea Brewing Company shirts from Kaua`i.
Larry then took me home. We took a roundabout way back threw Redmond. I was struck with how different the Eastside is from Seattle. At least where I live in Seattle anyway. Amanda was finally awake when I got home. She had been up all night in the hospital saving lives and whatnot and had been recuperating.