We took it easy this day, leaving Walla Walla at a comfortable time in the morning, and getting to Seattle shortly after noon. We had time to go to the Pike Place Market, which was in walking distance of the Westin, our hotel. The concierge there made a reservation for us for dinner at the Space Needle.

We went there by the Monorail, and here Mark is waiting on the platform at the terminus at Westlake Center Mall. (Big image; small.)

And here we are, in the first thumbnail (big image, small) on the Monorail, real tourists. And in the second (big image, small), we're in the lobby of the Space Needle waiting for the elevator that would take us up to the top.

I don’t know why I didn’t take any pictures from the outer walk of the observation deck on top, but here we are waiting to be paged for our table in the restaurant. (Big image; small.)

We got a nice table looking outwards, and the first thumbnail (big image, small) shows how we could just barely see Mt. Rainier in the distance. Later on, at a time when the rotation brought us to look in a west-northwest direction, we got a nice view of the sunset. (Big image; small.) My verdict of the meal is that the raw materials were excellent, but the treatment was not as skillful as in some other meals we had on this trip.

And from there we went back to the hotel to get to sleep early enough to be rested for the van trip to our first walk on the Olympic Peninsula.