So this was the big, end-of-season weekend here in Seattle: SeaFair!

The Blue Angels were in town. The hydroplanes were in town. The fleet was in town. That guy who stands at 2nd and Jackson and debates politics with a stuffed poodle name Mr. Solifticott was in town (OK, he never left). We, us were out of town.

We decided to drive up to the beautiful town of Snoqualmie where they were celebrating Railroad Days.

First, we stopped in Issaquah (Issa-kwah and not the east-coasterly Iss-ah-kwah) so that Miss Significantly Other could check out some totally rad and gnarly electronic bling at the T-mobile store and so that Panzo could get a damn cup of coffee.

What Panzo got from the Tully's there was not the vanilla latte that he asked for but a cup of vanilla-flavored foam! That pic was taken after I'd used my finger to scoop out what I thought would be the foam on top of the hot milk. But the foam kept going and going and going...

OK. Actually in Snoqualmie (that's pronounced like it's speeled: Snow-kwall-mee), Miss SO pointed out this furniture store.

Residents were big sad that they'd not have their fire horn nooner any longer after the fire station was torn down so the owner of the store saved the horn and had it installed atop her store.

Not having the automatic thingie to fire (heh) the horn off with, she has to pull its chain herself every day at noon.

There were all kinds of neat, train-related things to look at even though the trains don't run through Snoqualmie like they used to.

I could have taken a ride on a train but, to tell you the truth the cars are a bit banged up and scary (they're still working on the outdoor museum kinda thing - they have several dozen cars in various stages of decay, just sitting around up there).

After lunch at Twede's in North Bend (home of the exterior shots for the old TV series "Twin Peaks"), we sailed back down to south Seattle to see the Blues, now parked and waiting for their show on Sunday.

It wasn't that spectacular of a weekend but at least we got out and did something!