Friday Harbor

Yesterday I took advantage of our only good, actually feels like summer weekend, to get out and about.  My roommate Beth, her sister Debbie, and I went to Friday Harbor on San Juan Island for the day.  If you can believe, I've been in this area for three years now without managing to go there.  Who knows why!

We drove out to Anacortes and since we were super early for the ferry browsed in the cute shops downtown.  There is an awesome shop, The Mercantile, which sells items from estate sales.  If I lived in a bigger place I would have bought all kinds of stuff because they had some awesome, very cheaply priced furniture that I loved include several chests, a couch, cool lamps, etc.

We then ran to the ferry and hopped on it for the hour ferry ride to Friday Harbor.  It was quite windy as you can see from the fact that my hair is standing straight out in these pictures!

We had some great views of Mt. Baker in the distance.

And here we are coming up to Friday Harbor.  We saw a bald eagle soaring around a smaller island when we arrived but unfortunately I didn't have my camera out.  It was quite beautiful and we actually saw quite a few of them around.  

We ate lunch a cute little Mediterranean restaurant and had the best view.  The photo below I took while sitting at our table.  

Beth and me with the marina in the background.  

We spent the rest of the afternoon wandering around the cute shops in Friday Harbor and sitting back and relaxing on the waterfront.  If I'd had my druthers we would have driven onto the ferry and gone hiking and exploring on the rest of the island, but there's something to be said for taking it easy sometimes.  

Lastly, some photos from the return ferry trip....

 

 Next trip to the San Jauns--a camping trip to Orcas Island!  (First I have to con someone into doing this with me though....)