A Water Community

Today I took a lake cruise with some other conference attendees while Joe attended his "Airpower Symposium Seminars". Seattle has some very interesting buidings that line the many lakefront properties in the area. We went by the University of Washington, which is a beautiful campus. I saw many "floating houses" which are not actually floating, but anchored in the water and hooked up to city water, sewage and power. Some even had small trees and shrubs adorning their "yards". Each has it's own personality - no row houses here. One of the more interesting was the floating home that was used to film "Sleepless in Seattle." Points of interest was a large floating bridge, which they say is somewhat unique to Seattle, and seeing Bill Gates home (which has 6 bedrooms and 24 bathrooms by the way). Think you can figure which is which in the pics. I did miss a photo op of a bald eagle sitting on a buoy.

When I returned to the hotel, Joe was having lunch with Michael McKenna, who had coincidentally been a speaker at today's symposium. Joe said he did a great job.