But it wasn't so slow for some parts of the company. Boeing rolled out the new 777 freighter. LOL, you can tell its a freighter because there are no windows. Here's one in the production facility. They're manufactured on a moving line just like cars. Three are produced every month. The first is for Air France!!! Now if Air France is buying Boeing...then who is buying Airbus? Anyway I'm already brainwashed as a pro-Boeing junkie. Nah...but it does raise an eyebrow.
Here's a photo at the unveiling ceremony
Don't ask me any specifications. I do not know. I didn't even know they were building a 777 freighter, but it was a great reason to get out of the office. What was crazy was 30 minutes after the ceremony ended, we were chased out the bay, and back to work, and the airplane was taken right back into the factory for the final touches. It wasn't making money just looking pretty. All the pomp and screens and carpet were packed up half hour later. One of the major reasons for this airplane is that 747 freighters may be banned at a few airports in Europe due to noise restrictions. The improved 777 has excellent noise reduction features. Ironically I while we were driving back to work, a 777 for Air India was performing a touch and go at the Paine Field airport right in front of us. It must have passed overhead at about 200ft, and did the touch and go 0.5 miles away and for about 20 seconds of that whole event it just sounded like the passing drone of a semi trailer. The 787 is supposed to be even quieter.
Tom and Shelly visited with their daughter Avery. Avery is cute as hell !!! I managed to catch up with Tom for dinner, and took him to the Thaiger Room for dinner. Now when you say Thaiger Room it sounds like a Thai strip club. Riiiight. Check out the website at http://www.thaigerroom.com/home/ its some of the best food ever! Speaking of food, I found one great Trinidadian restaurant called Pam's kitchen in downtown UW. Some of the best curry I have ever eaten, here are some reviews
http://www.yelp.com/biz/pams-trinidadian-caribbean-kitchen-seattle
I'll be talking a LOT more about this place!
So last weekend it was 85 degrees so we took a hike...as usual. Its our new pass-time. This time we went to Twin Falls. It was our intention to go up Highway 2 in the north of Washington, but the road was closed for the weekend...the snow was melting and that made it prone to avalanches. So we went south, where the majority of the snow was gone.
The hike was 3 miles long and we expected it to be easy. At least that's what the book said. There were little kids on the hike, so how bad could it be. Well when you're out of shape, approaching 30 and extremely naive things catch you by surprise. It was some serious uphill trekking.
So here we are near the base of the hike. Happy, smiling, not knowing what we were in for. The river is actually 3 times bigger than what it normally is in the summer. The melting snow causes it to swell. In Washington last weekend 11 people died from drowning in rivers like this. The water is cold, so even though its 90 degrees...it feels like you're standing next to an air conditioner.
I took this primarily to show how dense the forest in the area is. Its really temperate forest, but its called a rainforest for obvious reasons. The trail is well maintained for this hike.
After 1.5 hours of trekking, and resting and wondering why we were here:
This is the 2nd of the "twin" falls.
Here is the main waterfall, plunging 75ft at many gallons a minute.
So this was one of the easy hikes in the book. Actually it is probably the 2nd easiest. But we picked it because of the prize near the end. Pris and I work on a risk/reward basis when it comes to everything. Anway the hike was stunning as usual, but I learnt that I need to get in shape haha.
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