Seattle has a water taxi service that runs from downtown across Elliot Bay to West Seattle and Vashon Island. On Sunday we met up with Mena and her parents and took the water taxi over to West Seattle (free for the kids, $4 for adults) and then walked north around the point to Alki Beach. […]

I took Sennet for a ride on a ferry for the first time on Saturday. He rode on the boat in Guatemala, and we’ve been out on the kayak a number of times, but he hadn’t been a ship this big yet. We drove downtown and got on one of the ferries to Bainbridge Island, […]