Wednesday October 18, 2000

The agenda for today is to hop into a rental car and drive South into Seattle, WA.  Russ had his heart set on taking a picture of the Microsoft sign at one of its campuses.  We were upgraded to a car one class above the one we reserved; that was cool until we had to fill'er up (gas is much more expensive in Canada!). 

We drove straight to Redmond and looked for the Microsoft campus.  It took us a while to find it, or "them" I should say since there were more than one.  We were disappointed to find that none of the buildings had a big "Microsoft" sign for us to take a picture of.  After a little bit we drove across the bridge into Seattle.  By then it was around rush hour in the afternoon so we decided not to stop at all.  From the highway Seattle didn't look all that different from any other city.  I snapped a few pictures and we took an exit to do a U-turn heading back North.

On the way back we saw a really wierd sign for a restaurant off the highway.  My guess is that it's meant to lure customers in using reverse psychology.  It didn't work at all on me though; well, you be the judge...

So that pretty much marked the end of our two-week vacation.  We were very happy to finally get home and not have to think about what to do for the day.  The trip did make me think about moving to Vancouver.  We'll have to see about that.