Perfect for Walking

Early Friday morning, Krissey and Caitlin headed out, fully prepared for a busy weekend adventure!  The Non-Rev Challenge is over on November 1st, which leaves little time for dilly-dallying.  We had to make this weekend COUNT!  We flew from Bozeman to Salt Lake City, and arrived in time to try to catch an earlier flight to Seattle.  Krissey quickly called our co-worker in Bozeman, Linda, who worked some magic with our reservations and PRESTO!--we were cleared for an earlier flight!

We arrived in Seattle at 8:30am and took the LinkRail into downtown Seattle.  First stop:  Pike Street Market for breakfast.

We couldn't decide whether we wanted crab,

pastries,

or more pastries.

We finally decided on more pastries, and had a delicious breakfast in the Seattle sunshine (how often do you get to enjoy that!?) before getting down to business.

We were able to capture this Mystery Bonus Points Photo (Task #94, point value:  23, photo credit to Elizabeth who was walking by, minding her own business).  The location of this particular building with the inside-out umbrella sculpture had been eluding the Big Sky Bozoners for quite some time.  Thanks to the expert sleuthing of Caitlin's friend, Jonathan, location SOLVED!

We then set off for our final Seattle task of the day.  Since the weather was SOOOOOO beautiful, we decided to walk.  When we got to the Seattle Space Needle, we asked a Seattle city worker if we were headed in the right direction.  His name was Pat, and he look right at us and said, "You're planning on WALKING there?  It's pretty far!".  Now, Krissey and Caitlin had heard this same song and dance from our co-worker, Gus, who also warned us that this really wasn't walking distance.  Krissey and Caitlin dismissed these warnings, saying to each other "Who do these people think we are?  We're TOUGH!  We're STRONG! We can walk it!"  Besides, the day was perfect for walking.

So we set off, and started walking.

And kept walking....

More walking.....

Still walking......

Still walking.....

How long have we been walking?  Do you think we're almost there?

Now walking across a bridge....

WHY ARE WE STILL WALKING!!!!!????

Are you serious?  Now we have to walk up this steep hill????

Finally, exhausted and sweaty, we arrived at our destination:  The Fremont Troll (Task #28, point value: 14, photo credit to random tourist, Isadore, who looked refreshed and relaxed and CLEARLY did not walk to the Troll)  For the record, we are going to appeal to the Non-Rev Challenge judges that this task should be worth 10 times the amount for hardship alone.

Since we refused to walk any further, we researched catching the bus back to downtown Seattle.  We found a nearby bus stop and Krissey called the Customer Service number on the posted schedule.

A very helpful Customer Service agent, Phil, told us what to.  In approximately 5 minutes, we were on our way!  Thank you, Seattle public transportation!

Unfortunately, all of our walking delayed our departure out of Seattle to our next destination.  We arrived at the airport too late for our flight.  The next two departures were full, but Krissey and Caitlin held tight, crossed their fingers, and waited.....