West Coast Road Trip: Day 9

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It’s our last day in Seattle … hard to believe we fly back east tomorrow.

What better way to kick off the last day of our west coast road trip than with brunch at Sky City in the iconic Space Needle? The rotating restaurant gave us a fantastic 360-degree view of Seattle, although Mount Rainier was hiding in the haze, barely visible on the horizon.

After brunch my sister drove us out to Everett, WA to see the Boeing Factory. The tour (which has extremely tight security: no bags, cameras, phones, etc. allowed!) takes you through the largest building in the world by volume where they manufacture and assemble the 747, 767, 777, and 787 (Dreamliner) airplanes. It was Sunday, so the factory wasn’t in operation but it was still damn impressive. We even caught sight of a Dreamlifter parked on the field (a plane to carry plane fuselage parts).

After the tour we drove back to my sister’s apartment in Seattle and started packing up for our return home tomorrow. For dinner we drove out to Ballard and ate at Hi-Life, a cool restaurant inside an old firehouse. Walking back to the car we decided we wanted some ice cream and stumbled upon Full Tilt, an ice cream place with pinball and arcade games … perfect!

Early bedtime tonight … we have to get up early to get to the airport. 🙁

 

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