Full Day that’s not over yet

It’s our last day … and night.  I write from SEATAC, and we still have a few more hours to kill before the plane leaves.  Oddly today was a long day.  We headed out this morning and shipped half of our luggage and laundry home, then went on to Fairhaven.  It was hilly, but not as bad as Seattle!  We browsed the shops waiting for lunch. 

We were trying for Archer’s Tavern - but unfortunately we had used up our browsing by 11:30 and by 12 I was starved and they didn’t open until 1!  We settled for a tea shop,  Like so much here it seemed a little off.  Traditional tea sandwiches, but on soft whole wheat bread.  I got “big” (read regular size)  chicken salad and it was like pate.  Still, I was starved, I ate it all.

We then headed south to Redmond in attempt to find Microsoft.  We drove for a good hour plus trying to find the stilly place.  With no luck.  I was then so hot and tired that I didn’t care anymore.  But we tried one last road and….  OMG. 

I don’t know how we could’ve missed it.  Huge is an understatement.  It’s as large as Seatac, as large as Disney World.  Possibly larger.  When the AAA book said the visitor’s center was next to building 92 - they meant it - and that there were over 100 buildings in the “complex”.  And these are not small buildings.  They have their own bus system.   This alone was stunning.

But we did go to the visitor’s center (read: opportunity to play with Microsoft products, inc. Nintendo.  Most of the people there were Asians.  In terms of actual …history?  They had a picture of the original MS team …. Um…. They had a small display of how tech has changed,… um…. They had 6 Surfaces one could play with…. 8 video game stations….  A demo of their ‘new’ tech - an art instillation of a paper dress that randomly displayed twitter twits across it’s skirt and a shopping program that via video camera would simulate you wearing whatever you clicked on.,  Oh and a store, in which you could buy anything you could think of with the MS corp logo  from notebooks (paper kind I mean) to a cook books (3 vols) baby clothes, pens… you name it, none of it cheap and no tech,  I was a sight.

We then headed toward Seatac off the highway (it was a parking lot)  Since we didn’t really have a good map it was a long interesting ride.  Eventually we just stopped for dinner, by that point the traffic was clear, we jumped on the highway and entered the airport.  Entering was easier than leaving it.  But we did arrive early.  I’m ready to be home.