AmaZing weekend at the Lake and SeaFair

Spent the entire weekend out on the lake, and started out by sleeping onboard Friday night. Better to do that, than to fight the rowdy crowds at the ramp on Saturday morning. On top of that, there was absolutely NO spots available down at the marina, so a night at anchor was a much better solution.
Reward was an invasion of bugs just before midnight, followed by a tad of chilly weather (too lazy to crawl into the sleeping bag...), and an amazing moonlit sky over the bay, and then a wonderful sunrise. Amazing how beautiful it actually can be, more or less in the middle of the city.

To survive the hardship (?) of sleeping onboard, wife and dog came down Friday night with pizza dinner, and Saturday morning freshly delivered Starbucks. Call that service!

Saturday lunch we loaded up with some friends, food, and beer and jutted out into the horrible wake out on Lake Washington. That is what you get when there are 5,000 (?) boats in every shape and size racing to the area north of the I-90 bridge to enjoy the always impressive Blue Angels literally overhead. Bumpy ride, but we got down just in time to find a decent spot for the air show.

Coming back, we were lucky to find a protected spot dockside in downtown Kirkland and Aksel and I spent the following hours just basking in the sun and watching the scenery (!) passing by. Decided to leave the boat there and go home for a "real" bed, and brought along a BBQ for wife and dog. Great evening out on the deck, and still just as hard to believe these temperatures! Still way past 80F at bed time.

Slept in a bit Sunday and only we were only two heading out (the rest were too beaten up by the sun from Saturday). Ended up a tad further to the west than the day before, and we really hit the jackpot! A few amazing low altitude fly-overs in formation of six - just over our boat made the weekend! The aerials are mazing, but there is still nothing better that when a single or a few jets pass directly overhead so low that you can almost reach up and touch them.

Enjoyed checking out some of the other vessels before heading down to Aksel's friend Laurie and her family's beach side party on Mercer Island. On the way down, we saw a number of boats being "pulled over" due to speeding, inattention, and likely also BIUs. Police was really alert, and had even set up a shore side booking station with a small portable jail - and a TV crew to really make it the "walk of shame"...

Turning northbound in late evening, we just puttered up along the East shore, and even got to see a rare opening of the 520 bridge close up. Also slowly followed by a large catamaran with a helicopter - and landing platform - on top. Back in Kirkland it was dark - but no spots. Aksel waited behind while I got the trailer from home and we pulled out of the water. A truly amazing weekend out. Seattle hardly can be any better than this!

Oh, almost forgot: After wife left the boat to go home on Saturday, she had to stop and pick up some dog food. Well, she also ended up bringing home another kitten. A black little guy by the name "Edgar". So now, we are getting closer to a "zoo" again. Funny guy though, totally fearless - like all kittens!