The plan came together - we were going to cruise from Pier 91 in Seattle on Saturday, Sept. 19th and arrive early morning at Canada Pier in Vancouver on Sunday, Sept. 20th. A limousine would pick us up at the pier and squire us around in style. We were going to enjoy a dim sum lunch in Chinatown, a bit more of the sites and finally make our way to Coal Harbour Marina for our return flight home.
The only logistics left to plan then were exactly how were we going to get the 8 of us to the Seattle pier and then how would we get home from Kenmore?
We kicked it around for a week or two - this was proving to be the biggest challenge of the weekend. We could have one of our kids take some of us and maybe a different kid could take the others? What about leaving a car at the pier? And another two at Kenmore? Does shuttle express go anywhere besides Seatac? How much would a limo ride to the pier cost?'
This was getting complicated. Finally, and I really don't know who to credit with this idea, we hit upon Metro - the city bus line. Envisioning something out of a Jeff Foxworthy routine (with our backpacks and duffle bags we'd look like an upscale version of 'the Clampetts go to Maui' - all we would be missing would be the plastic 'Piggly Wiggly' bags!), I researched the bus schedule. We figured we could leave vehicles at Kenmore for the return drive home. I worked up a couple of options - jockeying cars to Kenmore and ferrying occupants back to catch a bus in downtown Redmond, maybe one party would like to go from Issaquah? At some point it finally occurred to me that there was probably a fairly direct bus route from Kenmore to Seattle and our plans were finally, finally complete! Seven of us would meet up in two vehicles at Kenmore (Mark was going to the Sounders soccer game at noon first and would hopefully meet up with us on the boat) and then we would walk a few blocks to the bus stop...
The adventure truly begins....
~later, tw
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