Seattle is Sunny!

Today we visited Seattle and it didn't rain! Seattle is in Washington State, on the west coast. 

  We went to the largest building in the world called Boeing which builds airplanes. The factory is so big, you could fit fit 12 empire state buildings, or 5 Pentagons or 5.1 pyramids of Giza inside of it. We went on a tour and we saw the workers building airplanes, which was pretty amazing. Then we saw the inside of the new plane the dreamliner. The Dreamliner is supposed to be the biggest and largest plane ever - it has bigger seats and windows. It is also quite eco-friendly as it is built using special lightweight carbon fibre material. It also only costs around $202 million to purchase,  which is not too bad. But you still have to buy the engine and paint.

I learned a few interesting things about Seattle while we were visiting. 

1. The Space Needle is an Iconic landmark in Seattle. So it must be the most photographed object in the city. One random fact a few tour guides like to point out is that it actually comes second. A giant Pink Elephant car wash sign on Battery Street and Denny Way downtown come's first.

 

2. More people bike to work in Seattle than in any other city in the U.S. - and Seattle was the first city to put cops on bikes, too.

3.Several major companies were founded in Seattle including Boening, UPS, Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks and Costco.

4.The happy face was designed by a Seattle aid agency in 1966.

 

5. Seattle's nickname is the rainy city although many cities in the US have much higher rainfall.