This had to be the most siong (tedious) and shiok (enjoyable) of our rides so far. Why shiok? 'Cos we encountered a winding down slope with hair pin curves, along side fast moving vehicles! Boy, got to keep pumping the brakes to slow down. But what goes down must come up (or the other way? hur? Whatever!) That's the tedious part.
The first destination is Seward Park - about southeast Seattle, jutting into Lake Washington from where we could see Mercer Island opposite. The guide book also mentioned about some fish hatchery and a nesting place for bald eagles, which we have yet to see one since we got here.
After this, we will proceed to Museum of Flight which is near Boeing factory. Yap, the factory that manufactures planes for the world that most of us have boarded before.
Hm...what else do we need? Lunch! We have gotten into the habit of packing lunch for picnics while taking in the beautiful scenery. Guess this is one of life's best enjoyment, especially after a hard and strenuous ride. On the way, we chanced upon a nice little town - Madison Valley with a pretty good cafe (can smell the aroma of coffee with nice warm bread), and ordered roasted vegetables w/avocado Columbia sandwich and Lorraine quiche to go. Perfect, we moved on.
It was about 12:30pm when we reached the park. We were getting impatient at the pace, but its hard to blame with the many frames of awesome scenery hitting at us as we rode along Lake Washington.
Finally, picnic at the park and some people, er, dog watching:
After a short rest, we continued our journey to the next destination. Haiz, how we wished someone had warned us this is going to be tough. Its mostly uphill, we peddled hard, gave up, dismounted, pushed our bikes. To our next horror, we realized we had to bike across a freeway! I was about to give up, but CH persisted.
"We have come so far, might as well move on", he encouraged.
Fine. Gritted my teeth, cheong (go)! And we reached ! Finally! With no time to spare, we hurriedly checked into the cafe to replenish lost energies that had already gobbled up our picnic lunch earlier.
As we'd planned to do a more thorough visit on our next round, we hanged around the entrance of the museum to take some pictures before we headed back.
Boy, were we glad to find the bus service (174) still operating. With barely energy left to mount our bikes on the bus, we happily got onto the bus and slumped our tired bodies (and sore butts! Ouch!) on the seats.
What a ride! We have completed > 20 miles today.
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