Home, at last! Well, figuratively speaking anyway. We are currently "home free", but we are back in Tacoma, WA for almost 3 weeks. Yes, it's two days early and we had to find another AirBnb for those nights, but we made it.
On the way, we stopped at the Mount St. Helens Visitor Center. It looks much more recovered now than it did the last time Meghan and I stopped when she was a Girl Scout.
Visited the Peninsula Historical Museum in Gig Harbor. First we viewed the Galloping Gertie display, with a piece of the actual bridge.
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| This is a huge piece of metal salvaged from Galluping Gertie. |
Then, Steve showed me the Shenandoah, the fishing boat he was helping to restore when he volunteered with the Museum before we left.
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| Steve created this display |
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| and he built this, too. |
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| Steve stands in front of the Shenandoah. He painted the inside of the pilothouse and helped with the huge project of scraping the outside of the boat and removing all the rotten wood. |
Today, Steve joined the Tacoma Rose Society trimming roses at the Point Defiance Rose Garden, their usual Thursday event during the summer. I visited the old Elks Club building while waiting for an appointment downtown. It's still a dilapidated mess, even though McMenniman's is supposed to be working on it. But, the Spanish Steps are still lovely, built in 1906. It will be wonderful when the whole project is finished. I'm ready for a swim. Hope they rebuild the pool.
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| The outside of the building still looks pretty bad, notice the elk's head with the bare metal rods where the antlers should be. |
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