Walking - but it's not the same as Italy

On Sunday - a day it actually DID NOT RAIN - we all went for a walk around Alki Point. We parked at Don Armeni Park, and then walked the nearly two miles to the first of the restaurants at Alki Beach, to a Tully's Coffee, where Steve had coffee, I had cocoa, and Sophia had bits of almond biscotti and a little paper cup of water.

It was very windy, outside temperature about 48 degrees, tho, so when the wind died down in spots it wasn't bad. Sophia was sporting her new pink sweater with white feathery trim that says "Love" in sequins on her back. She was scoffed at and then admired in turn, depending on the passers-by sex and age. Girls totally get it and if they had a girl dog they would do the same (said an owner of a rottweiler X), teen age boys laughed, and other people laughed but said "oh how cute!" at the end.

It was a long walk. It's not the same as meandering up and down streets, looking in shop windows, and getting lost like we did in Italy. This had a goal point at each end (going: coffee / returning: the warmth of the car!) and I had forgotten a scarf, altho I did have some knit gloves in my dog-walking windbreaker. Steve had his scarf and his hat, but still was cold he says because he doesn't have hair over his ears like I do.

In the end, the sun set as we returned to the car. We had walked so far that we could not see the Space Needle, we were so far around the Point to the West. Watching the ferry boats ply the water to and fro, brilliant white against the dark blue of the water and the hills behind - was breathtaking. You can usually see at least three, in various stages of their routes to Southworth, Bremerton, or points further north.

We walked in 2 hours what we would have spent 12 hours walking in Italy. No, it's not the same. But it felt good to be outdoors, moving again, this time with my darling Sophia in accompianment.

Need some fresh air? Alki Beach Park information:
http://www.cityofseattle.net/parks/parkspaces/alki.htm