Friday, July 31, 2009

Cooler in Western Washington

The thermometer (it's in the shade) at Auntie Violet read 107 degrees when we left her about one this afternoon! It was 90 degrees on the reader board at the top of Snoqualamie Pass and only a bit above 70 when we arrived at daughter Mary Mae's in Mount Vernon about 8 this evening. Much, much nicer!

We'd have been here an hour sooner, but the traffic through Everett was moving between 0 and 20 miles an hour most of the way. They've added a whole other lane to the freeway during the time MM and Scott have lived here and it hasn't seemed to make any difference at all -- it's always extremely slow from north of Seattle until you get past Everett.

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  1. We were ahead of you on the road! Arrived in Seattle about 3:30 on Friday. Our only slowdown was bumper to bumper on 405 going to Renton. We had decided to stay in a hotel rather than at Matt & Holly's because of the heat, and stayed at Larkspur Landing in Renton because I got an internet special of $79/night. Other than that, we didn't have to worry about SeaFair traffic in the tooling around we did in Seattle. But, did have to divert to 520 leaving today as we left while the I-90 bridge was on its daily closure. And, we get to do it again in three weeks for the wedding reception!! We KNOW why we don't live there!

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