Space Needles and Gas ParksAugust 31
Seattle’s close to Canada, so I kept my hopes up that I might find Rachel there at last. Wasn’t there a movie about a guy and a girl who couldn’t sleep and fell in love in Seattle? Maybe that would happen for me and Rachel!
Rachel! Where are you?
At the top of the Space Needle?
No.
Does Rachel like sports?
I guess not, because she wasn’t at the Mariners-Yankees game. If only they were playing the Blue Jays instead!
Maybe I’d find her sipping coffee at the first ever Starbucks!
Nope. Sigh.
I was getting depressed so I stayed at the hotel and moped while corky and Clay went to some museums downtown.
While I was laying there, staring at the ceiling, thinking of my Rachel, my cute panda self came up with the most brilliant idea! I knew where I would find Rachel in Seattle!
GASWORKS PARK!
She would be waiting for me at the TAR3 finish line! I just knew it!
I made corky and Clay get up early and take me there.
I sat up high on the steps so I could watch for Rachel.
I waited.
And waited.
I kept looking over toward the finish line spot to see when she would come running toward me but all I ever saw was some guy doing Tai Chi.
It was time to leave for the airport to go home. Corky picked me up so I could take one last look around the park for Rachel before we left. She wasn’t there.
I guess I will have to keep looking!