put coronavirus protests and riots all together and you get
[Music playing]
is it supposed to be a butt is it supposed to be an elephant but
of the tail what is it what is it what does it mean
[Music playing]
so it's a little bit uh overcast looks like it could rain here today outside of
Seattle now we're technically just right outside of gig harbor Washington and we were going to stay
in the seattle proper area and this being a year of change and fluidity we had to shuffle some of
our reservations when we found out that the Canadian border was going to stay closed so
today we are going to venture to Seattle we want to see the space needle it's not open to actually
go into right now because of coven but we're gonna go at least be able to see it from the outside
check it out um just kind of see what downtown seattle looks like drive through we'll see how
comfortable we feel there have been some things like protests and riots that have happened in
that area in the recent months but um things seem to have quieted down across our country right now
as of the day that we're filming this so we're gonna go see if we get up there and
we just feel like that it doesn't look like a good environment then we'll turn around and come back
so we're in downtown Seattle driving towards the space needle just to go check it out
and we've seen zero protests so that's good however I will say that um
there's graffiti everywhere it is interesting to see I don't know I guess I'm just not used
to seeing graffiti everywhere but um tons of graffiti kind of sad so we're here at the space
needle we're gonna just walk around a little bit but uh I do find a hilarious parking lot
to pay for the parking it says to touch the screen to begin so of course I touch the
screen and get about five steps in before it tells me that it's only contactless payments
which it really would be anyway because it's just paying with the card and that
you have to do it through an app so i had to download the app
which I find hilarious but it didn't tell me that in the first place before I touched the thing
I mean you know I have hand sanitizer and all but really tell you before you start touching
the thing and if you're not gonna say it before you start touching the thing then
why even bother not cool Seattle not cool lots of interesting buildings down here and I still don't
know what to make of them like are they supposed to be something are they supposed to like
elicit some sort of emotion hey can we go now I just don't know what do you think yet I know
is it supposed to be a butt is it supposed to be an elephant but
open him what is it what is it what does it mean i've never been to downtown seattle before
first time and I've never been like in this particular district and we're here it's a Saturday
about six o'clock and it is like a ghost town down here so there's skateboarders
everywhere that is one thing we're noticing tons of skateboarders it seems like everywhere you go
down here so must be a thing good skateboarding area lots of people on skateboards filming each
other on their skateboards too so maybe that's a thing while in hiding during the holocaust
Anne Frank was inspired by the tree outside her window from which this chestnut tree was grown
dedicated to the city of Seattle by the holocaust center for humanity
in 2016. so this chestnut tree somehow was connected to the same chestnut tree
that was outside of Anne Frank's window which is interesting this whole little garden is a peace
garden very sparse down here not a lot of people but those that are down here almost everybody's
got a camera an iphone something like that where they're filming something and I got a kiddo behind
me that is feeling very uncomfortable just because we've watched a little too many news broadcasts
about downtown Seattle as everybody else can see right now nothing going on here right now
you know pretty dead but there are some police vendors roaming around very large police presence
which has been great and obviously makes one feel fairly safe so I think one thing
that we've figured out is that rving during corona virus it's really interesting because
nobody's around anywhere so what continues to amaze me is how empty it is here and how there's
just nobody around yeah I mean obviously at the protest scared everybody away which there's no
protesting going on we're on our way and on i-5 there are signs that say active protests i5 could
be shut down you know we just thought okay if we drive down there and it looks like there's
crowds or whatever we'll just turn around quite the opposite like even the parking lot we are one
of one two three four five yeah cars crazy fine no no we actually chose this parking
lot because there were a few other cars here and all the other parking lots were completely empty
and I was like I don't want the vehicle to be a target the only car in that whole parking lot so
just dead dead dead dead here in downtown Seattle on a Saturday night which
is my first rodeo in downtown Seattle but my guess is it's not typically this way on a Saturday night
but put corona virus protests and riots all together and you get a dead downtown Seattle
it's a 16 grade wow 16 percent
people down here everybody is tell me
[man shouting]
you guys will be safe right here
[ man shouting]
so we are here at the very first Starbucks that ever was so we're gonna grab a coffee because
it's the first one that ever was right here in Seattle see oh there's
private parts the logo inappropriate they obviously changed it a little bit
[Music playing]
so we got coffee from original starbucks and the kids got hot chocolates and um
just you know something about having a cup of starbucks
from the original Starbucks it's where all the magic began people right here in
downtown Seattle we are on a quest this year to cover as many national parks as we possibly can
and since we find ourselves in the seattle-ish area of Washington today's adventure is going to
be olympic national park so we're going to head up to olympic national park and check it out
[Music playing]
I'm really glad that we decided to stop here and I'm glad I decided to ask because
they went ahead and gave me the badges and said just give them to the kids when
they're done with their books because they don't want to have you turn the books in
in case there's rona on the books so they're like you just take the badges and then when
the kids finish their books you can give them their badges so I'm glad we stopped
because that way they get their badges in person and we don't have to mail them in so
there you go olympic national park oh and you want to see something else that's hilarious
I have to show you this sign if it was in the bathroom just in case there's any concerns
wow so we get to use our every kid in a park pass again fourth-grader thank you Dakota so this will
save us 30 bucks today um to go to Olympic national park so if you have a fourth-grader
kiddo grand kiddo make sure that you go to every kid outdoors and get your annual
pass for the national parks we're free hi how are you doing good we have one of these and you have a
fourth grader right yes we do right back there we got well no we got one oh we got one yeah
thank you awesome thank you so much of olympic national park is actually rain forest and it's
just very interesting being up here you can just feel the dampness that's here this
particular area the annual rainfall is about 12 feet 12 feet of rain annually for this area and
it's just so different you feel that moisture but you like can smell like that freshness
it's just a really cool experience here at olympic national park and the moss on the trees just
everything is just really really cool it's going right up to their car oh come on come to arcade
oh you coming you got it so it's just gorgeous up here coming up the road
and then like when it opens up and you see all of the mountains with the snow
just it's really breathtaking and awe inspiring and so many great cool photo ops there's
somebody just down over here that's got one of those vans that's
doing obviously some really great photos that we'll probably see on instagram later
and um just beautiful here at Olympic national park definitely a national park I would put on
your list if you're gonna ever be in the pacific northwest make sure that you make your way here
and check this out so it's pretty early morning for us where we're living the rv life we easily
tend to get out of a routine when we're traveling which is exactly what has happened this summer
however today we got up early for us six which normally during the school year that's not that
early today we're doing something pretty spectacular we're going on a whale-watching
gonna drive a couple of hours to hit the Anacortes ferry
it's freezing and from there we're going across to San Juan island and then we're getting on another
boat to head out and hopefully spot some whales today so stay tuned and we'll tell you all about
that we'll let you know about the company that we're going with and if we recommend going with
them if you're ever in the pacific northwest and would like to do a whale watching tour
[Music playing]
a thing to know if you choose to do this and you're staying in the Seattle area
and this was great information so San Juan safaris who is the company that we're going to take our
tour with did call and they wanted to make sure that I knew this but the San Juan islands they're
islands you cannot get there by driving there's not a bridge system you do have to take a ferry
so we are right now at the Anacortes terminal and we're gonna do the walk-on to the ferry
the office for the tour company is just about 200 yards from where the ferry terminal is once we get
to san juan so um something to know this ferry is going to take us probably about an hour to
go through all the islands to get to where we need to go
all the way up here whoa look at the water it's just beautiful
so we're pretty fascinated right now with the whole the fact that there's
cars that can drive onto the ferry and then looking down there there's
rv down there too so we'll watch this rv drive off of the ferry which is pretty cool
it's kind of cool oh very cool and they've got it like roped up for social distancing so
[Music playing]
so we are heading over to San Juan island brewing company
and it's just a little brewery they've got outside seating they've got cheeseburgers we've got about
an hour until the boat leaves so we're gonna go check it out so we're checked in four minutes and
we're gonna head down to the uh departure area to get on the boat to go on our tour
[Muisc playing]
so we're about ready to board the ferry to go back and I am surprised how many rvs were on this very
coming back as well so we had a great time got whale watching several whales saw seals
two balls eagles so it was definitely a lot of fun I'll put some links below
with information regarding the company we went with and also regarding the Washington
state ferries because it's important for you to know the ferry schedule to book that around
your tour so you want to make sure that you take a look into that and plan appropriately for that
[Dakota whispering]
[Music playing]