Port Townsend on a Ferry

Yesterday we boarded a ferry in Edmonds and rode it across the Puget Sound over to Kingston. It was so pretty, the sound is gorgeous and it was a perfectly sunny hot day. The ride was pretty short, just enough time to enjoy the scenery and go back down to the car. Once we arrived in Kingston we got off the ferry and drove for a little over an hour...we didnt think it was going to be that long...to Port Townsend. We drove through a lot of very very small towns, for those of you who have read Twilight, you feel like your in Forks. If we wanted to drive some more we would have even gotten to Port Angeles. I never thought I would see the day when I would be talking about Twilight and get all excited to see the towns they talk about in the story!! But anyway...Port Townsend was a cute little town. I was loving it until we realized that everything on the entire main street of town closed at 5:30, it was 5:45 when we arrived. We didnt get to visit all the cute little shops but we did get to walk around the marina and go out onto one of the docks when the sun was starting to go down. We ate at a little restaurant, there werent many options but this one looked promising. Well....about 45 minutes of sitting there we had no water, our food had not come out yet and no one had checked on us. On top of being starving we were getting very very impatient and this did not make for much dinner conversation as everyone was just grumpy and unhappy with our service. Finally after an hour, just before we were about to leave the restaurant and head to McDonalds our food finally came. It was okay, not the best but not terrible. Not as satisfying as we pictured our meal in the cute town. As we headed back to catch our ferry I enjoyed the scenic ride through the farms, fields full of cows and huge pine trees. The sun was going down and it was so pretty. Maybe not the trip we thought it would be but I am still very glad that we went. I loved it, the ferry, the drive, seeing the little port city. Its all part of the experience we had to get while we were still here in Seattle.