Soaking up the sun

I went on my first ferry ride yesterday. It was a crystal clear day and barely in the 80's, which I was told is a pretty warm day for Seattle. We managed to show up at the ferry dock just in time to see it pull away. Since we had about an hour we decided to walk around the pier to kill time. That's when I was introduced to Sylvester the mummy. This wouldn't be so creepy if you couldn't see the bullet hole and the blood stained skin. On the up side I did get to see what I was promised was a real jackalope, and the remains of a mermaid and her spawn.
Soon after we discovered that we had to get back to the ferry. Its a good thing we booked it down there because we were at the front of the line, and they had started loading the ferry. They were actually having cars drive around ours. There was a guy in front of us that hadn't made it back to his car by the time we drove onto the boat. Once we were well on our way we realized that we hadn't seen him make it onto the boat.
We spent the day on Bainbridge island just driving around and checking things out. At one point we accidentally drove off of the island. No, not off a cliff. We just didn't notice the bridge. Goes to show talking while driving can be as distracting in person as over the phone. Anyway, neither of us had been before so we had fun wandering around. Took us a while to find somewhere we wanted to eat though. Eventually we found the Treehouse Cafe and had some really really good pizza.
The weird part of the day was that the smell of the trees was different. I can only guess that it was the lack of redwood trees on the island. Even so I had a lot of fun enjoying one of the last summer days. Between the company and the place I am absolutely loving it here.