Willy's Weekend: Random Outings - Snoqualmie Falls, Future of Flight, and Melting Pot

As planned, woke up bright and early at 9:30am-ish to get ready for the hike. Hiking.. as we determined, was an unique Seattle experience... so we figured we start off with that. Luckily it wasn't raining too hard (it had been raining pretty badly this whole week), so we didn't need to bust out the custom designed rain gear (aka garbage bags with holes in it). So off we drove towards the east to reach Snoqualmie Falls.

None of us have been there, so we just randomly got to the vicinity and started looking for the trail path. We ended up driving all the way up a mountain, seeing pretty wonderful leaves and scenery, only to be led downhill to find that the falls was actually alot closer to the highway than we thought!

At the actual site, we realized that it wasn't really a hiking trail. The trail was less than 1 mile and was more like a lookout point. I definitely can't consider it as a hiking trail after seeing that the paved road we walked on led to a power plant, that and a truck was parked next to it...

It was a nice place though, I love waterfalls, they always look so peaceful, yet majestic... not to mention pretty.

After grabbing a quick lunch, we drove up north to the Future of Flight (one of the Boeing factories here). Once again, we randomly drove near the vicinity (since we sort of did not write down the exact details to the location) and managed to find it somehow. The most random thing is that we arrived at 2:56pm... which was the PERFECT time because there was a guided tour at 3:00pm. So we made it into it, without having to plan for it! One of the biggest highlights was that being so out of it from waking up so ridiculously early, I actually walked right into a pole... Yes, you read right... there was a pole in this auditorium, and I was looking to my right, and then thud... walked right into it... (face first if I recall correctly)... Oh, and the planes and what not were pretty interesting too.

After the Future of Flight Museum, headed back towards Btown for some bbtea... This place was great.. They actually used real green tea, so it was very flavourful. Rested up there until dinnertime at Melting Pot.

Melting Pot is this place where they do fondues. They have this famous cheese fondue, which tasted better than I expected, and also a main course, and a chocolate fondue to end it all with. It was one of those long sitting dinners. We started at around 8:30... and ended at around 12ish. It was a bit pricey, but it was an interesting experience.