Hey, Aqua...trip to the Ballard Locks is well worth it. Pick a nice sunny Sunday afternoon in June (hopefully there is at least one of those in June in Seattle :) ). Often they have weekend concerts there. You can walk across the locks to view the salmon migration through the observation glass (June is the heaviest period of the run). Have a picnic on the grassy hill next to the locks and watch a big procession of boaters trying to maneuver in and out of the locks...the inexperienced are under a lot of stress in tight quarters and you see a bunch of hilarious boating misadventures.

while I don't like being American sometimes...I haven't taken things for granted...I have enjoyed as much as I have been able to about my country and my surroundings thus far...and don't particularly like someone saying "typical american"sorry PF, I"m not trying to sound mean :-/
on the other hand, I have visted Canada, all over Ontario as well as Toronto and the CN tower, and it was very nice...I especially liked that glass floor, it was spectacular

Not taken as "mean" hun.:) I DO understand your feelings. My "typical American" was solely based on observations like only 11% of New Yorkers have visited the Statue of Liberity.:rolleyes:

Well, I've never travelled outside the Maritimes, but I've seen all the major attractions there are to see around here. The Hopewell Rocks (home of the world's highest tides), the reversing falls (here in my hometown), Le Pays de la Sagouine, the Confederation Bridge to PEI, the home of Lucy M Montgomery (the setting for the Anne of Green Gables books).

That's about it. Not a whole lot goes on in my corner Canada :)

I must correct something I said in my first response......

Ironically.....hubby, SUPERPIPE and I were just talking about this last Saturday afternoon, and then I got a PM from Sugarsprinkles about the very same topic.....yesterday!

I wasn't born around here and when I heard the story of Padre Pio.....for some reason I was under the impression that he was either local or that he had immigrated here around the time of his stigmata affliction. Well..come to find out (from both sources...SS and hubby and friend) that he never lived here (in my neighborhood), but was an Italian native. A church had been errected, locally, by his followers in his honor. Hubby remembers an episode of the TV show "In Search Of", where Padre Pio was standing in front of a church and in the background you could see the landscape of a quarry.....and he instinctively knew where this quarry was. It's right here...in the town I live in now. It's down a road in Barto that I never travel and would only go specifically to see the church. What I do know now, is that the padre at least visited this church at some time in his life. So....I appologize for my ignorance on Padre Pio! I still make the promise to dicksbro to visit it and take picks for him.....and I will as soon as I get another cam!

Well....anyway....I just had to say that!