And away we go

Today (May 31) starts the beginning of our second adventure traveling with National Geographic around the world.  Have we mastered packing (finally)?  Each of our big bags weighed in at 45 pounds.  Our “wheelies” only have our toilet articles, iPads and medications, plus the odds and ends needed in our electronic world.

The flights that took us from Fort Myers to Seattle were uneventful.  Getting our luggage on arrival was semi-eventful.  Even though we had sky priority tags on the bags they were the last to come down the conveyor belt.  But they did arrive and we were off to the Westin hotel.  We cleaned up and did some walking around.  We had dinner at a lovely restaurant, Wild Ginger.  We tried to stay up until 9 PM (we had to get up at 4:15 Eastcoast time), but succumbed to sleep around 8:30.

We moved to the Four Seasons hotel in the morning (June 1).  This is the trip starting point, checked in, got our room right away and then checked in with the tour group.  We saw several staff from our last trip, saw our wonderful tour leader Susan and met a fellow traveler from our last trip.

Then it was off on the Seattle monorail to the Seattle Center where we went to the Chihuly Museum and Gardens and up to the top of the Space Needle.

We are now back to rest before our welcome dinner and briefing this evening.

Big bags at 9:30 tonight and small bags at 6:30 in the morning tomorrow.  

The adventure is about to begin!