. The next day we did a quick breakfast at Chick fil A and we headed for the Northwestern states , to visit Dave and Allyn Unwin . We stopped in Spokane and had some pretty darn good Mexican food and a cold beer to wash it down . Then , on the way across the state of Washington Dave was texting Judy and said that we needed to stop in a little town called Roslyn where they used to film parts of the show Northern Exposure . We did an and it was worth a stop . There was a neat bar on the corner , we had a couple of beers in there and the girls were walking around shopping once again . Then we discovered a little brewery right up the street . So , we had one there too . We also made a stop at the Columbia River to look at the scenic outlook up and down the river that was beautiful . Then on to Seattle . We rolled into Bellevue which is a suburb where the Unwin ’ s live . It was right around supper time . We got the car unloaded . I took Dave about six or seven cases of Minnesota beer Grain Belt , Hauenstein , Schell ’ s Deer Brand and some Old Style . He gave me some Rainier and some nice old Grain Belt cases from the 50 ’ s . That evening we sat at Unwin ’ s place , visited , had some beers and cocktails and admired his collection . Which is incredible ! Saturday morning we go see the city of Seattle . I have always wanted to go to Seattle and I ’ m not sure why it took me until I was 64 years old to get there ? Allyn made us a nice breakfast and some fantastic coffee . Then we hit the road . The first place we went was to Pikes Place Market which you may have seen on TV . It ’ s a huge shopping area with all kinds of little shops under one roof and a few of them outdoors . There ’ s a place where they have fish mongers and if you buy salmon , they make you stand behind the counter and they throw the fish to you , and you have to catch it . I always wanted to see that . I ’ ve seen it on TV . It was worth watching . There was a gum wall where people that chew gum stick there used gum it ’ s kind of gross , but Haley and Judy went down to see it . And then we stopped at the Old Stove Brewing Company . We were going to have a beer , but the place was packed . We stood on the deck and looked up Puget Sound and the view was fantastic . Dave said there was another Old Stove Brewery in a quieter neighborhood we could visit later . The next stop was the salmon run . Salmon don ’ t have much to do with beer either other than they taste good smoked with a beer . But if you ’ ve watched them on TV as a kid on some of the wildlife shows leaping over rock dams and the bears catching them , you ’ d like this . We arrived at the dam and finally got a parking space . It was very busy as this was one of the biggest salmon runs they ’ ve had in years . It ’ s really cool because you can walk along the river and look down and you can see the schools of salmon swimming in . There were probably about six seals or sea lions , I ’ m not sure .
And they ’ re out there trying to catch the salmon and you could see a few salmon go by where they ’ d had a bite taken out of their back . You walked down underneath , and it was like an aquarium . You can see the salmon , setting up and getting ready to start hopping up the ladder to get past the dam . We also saw two massive sturgeons swim by . I have never seen a sturgeon in real life , and they are big . After the salmon show we went to Old Stove brewery number two . It was nice and quiet as they were getting ready for some live music . They had some old beer signs . There was some Grain Belt advertising on display . Chris the owner , who is a NABA member and the driving force behind The Mill at Vicksburg had some of his signs in there . It was a neat little place . The beer was very good . The atmosphere was nice , and we enjoyed beers in the outdoor beer garden We also ran into some NABA Celebrities in the brewery . I ’ ll tell that Barry Travis really gets around The beer was very good . The atmosphere was nice , and we enjoyed beers in the outdoor beer garden . Afterwards , we headed back to Bellevue to the Unwin house . We ordered pizza and had some beers . The girls all went to bed early .
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