They have renamed the street in front of the troll as Troll Ave. It is actually under the Aurora Bridge at 36th St.
Diane with the Troll. In his left hand he is holding a real Volkswagon Beetle. You can see the tire in the picture at the bottom left.
Fremont has a lot of oddities. Here is the Rocket Ship they reclaimed and attached to the side of a building. The rocket ship was a circa 1950 cold war rocket fuselage attached to AJ's Surplus in Bell Town. The town rescued it and after several years found a home for it attached to the building in the picture.The Rocket bears the Fremont crest and motto, "De Libertas Quirkas"—which means "Freedom to be Peculiar.
Fremont also has it's own statue of Lenin which was created by Emil Venkov, a Slavic artist. It took him 10 years to complete it and it was installed in Poprav, Slovakia in in 1988. It was found in Slovakia by an American veteran teaching in Poprad. Lewis Carpenter found the sculpture lying face down after it was toppled in the 1989 Revolution. He mortgaged his house to acquire the sculpture and brought it back to Issaquah. It is sited in Fremont temporarily for viewing and sale.
We stopped for coffee in a small coffee house, Stickman Coffee, on an alley in the Fremont district. The coffee art in the picture below was one of several hanging in the coffee shop.
This sculpture "Waiting for the Interurban" has a dog behind the people. If you click on it and get the larger size picture, you will see the dog has a human face. We were told by our tour driver that it was the face of the councilman that opposed the sculpture being there but on the web, the rumor has it that the face on the dog is that of another local legend, Arman Napoleon Stepanian. The unofficial Mayor of Fremont in the early years and the "Christopher Columbus" of curbside recycling
This is a picture of sculpture on a building in Fremont. Not sure what it represents or why it is there but I thought it was cool.
This is the front of a shop just down the hill from the rocket. I just liked the colors and wood.
A view from Magnolia (where Mike and Leah live) looking across to the point where Alki Lighthouse is on the tip. We headed over there after taking this picture.
View of Seattle skyline from West Seattle on the way to the Alki Lighthouse.
This is a view back towards Magnolia from West Seattle/Alki. I just thought it was cool that we could take a picture back to where we had just been.
We got to Alki Light Station to find out that it was closed and only open June to August.
I was bound and determined to get a picture anyway and finally went down the road to where I could get to the beach and then walked back along the beach to the lighthouse. It was behind a fence so I climbed up on the rocks on the beach and got this shot over the fence.
Here is Diane sitting on the logs on the beach when I was coming back from getting the picture of the lighthouse. This is where we found beach access.
After the lighthouse, we headed out to Snoqualmie Falls. We were going to go farther east to Roslyn where they filmed the TV show "Northern Exposure" but we would have had to go through Snoqualmie pass which is over 6000 feet and there was supposed to be snow at that altitude. We decided that discretion was the better choice and went to the falls instead.
They are really quite nice. There is a hotel there and a power generating station. They are really an amazing sight.
After the falls, we decided to head up to Woodinville and do some wine tasting. Michael had mentioned that Chateau Ste. Michelle was pretty good so decided to check it out. He was right. I did not realize that it was the oldest winery and one of the largest in Washington. They actually own a number of the other wine brands in Washington. We did some tasting. The woman doing the pouring was great. She suggested a couple of things and even went to the other building to get us a wine to taste.
After the tasting, we headed back to the hotel. We had to go through Redmond but decided not to stop at Microsoft. I figured that since Bill Gates retired, it wasn't worth the stop. Tomorrow we will wrap up the vacation with a final day of sightseeing in Seattle and trying to figure out how to fit all the loose stuff from the trunk and back seat of the car into the suitcases for the trip home.
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