Downtown Seattle and Group Dinner

Once we left Kiana we were off to the ferry for Seattle! Some older teenage Suquamish girls joined us for the venture to Seattle and it was great to have them along. Once we got there our first place was Pike Place Market. This is a fun and hopping place. At the Fish Market the workers there are famous for the fun way the entertain the guests by their hollering and repeating of orders that are made as well as tossing fish to a worker our in the crowd from behind the counter. Some of our girls had first hand experience in this. These guys are professionals, they know how to pick the right people out of the crowd. Brittany was teased by one of the guys with a small little minnow of a fish when he dangled it in her face and chased her a few steps with it. We all were laughing as well as the crowd. She was a good sport about it, for the most part. The same guy dropped the same fish into Alison's purse and she was so bothered by this that she threw away some of the items that touched it and smelled like the fish. The guy did get his bubble burst when after all that he thought he would get Erica by having her hold a huge craw fish. She held it with no real reaction but just interest in the little exoskeleton critter.

From there most of us split up into different groups to venture into different places. Some stayed in the Market and shopped and looked around. Others visited the shops on the near by streets whereas others rode the monorail and traveled to the top of the Space Needle.

Everyone made it back to the ferry in time and then we were off to Suquamish to see the ceremonial canoes arrive to the shoreline with the reigning Chief Seattle Days Princess. We were there for just a short bit to do this and to peruse the many booths selling authentic Indian items. The major part of Chief Seattle Days begins tomorrow with the traditional parade by all the dancers and other tribal people who have traveled to participate in the pow-wow. Our group has had the distinguished honor of being invited to be a part of the parade due to all of our hard work and constant dedication to the Suquamish people. They are very appreciative of all of the work we have done here this week.

After we left Suquamish, we went back to the hotel to get "prettied" up for a nice group dinner in Poulsbo out on the water. This was a nice affair and it was great to actually eat a meal with our whole group together. So tomorrow we will be off to Chief Seattle Days for all of the festivities and all of the scrumptious Salmon the Suquamish people will prepare.