Redmond, Washington USA

Flat Stanley visits Redmond, WA from Elena’s House

Stanley’s Visit to Redmond, Washington

Redmond Post Office
Here is where we met Stanley.

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Helping Hands statue, commemorating our fire fighters.

Redmond Skateboard Park

Fall has arrived in Washington. Colorful leaves are everywhere.

Redmond Humane Society

We donated a bag of dog food.

Stanley made a new friend.

Embroiderers Guild of America

Stanley attended a meeting with Nana. Her chapter makes these little pillows to give to soldiers from Ft. Lewis to take with them on assignments.

Our backyard

A little visitor

Seattle Skyline

The closest big city to us is Seattle. Downtown is 20 miles East of Redmond. To get there, we have to drive across the longest floating bridge in the world. It is 7,578 feet long.

The tall spire is the Seattle Space Needle. It was built for the Seattle World’s Fair in 1962 and it is over 600 feet tall. On New Year’s Eve and the 4th of July there are wonderful fireworks shows shot from the top.  You can take an elevator to the top. Besides seeing the whole city, you can also have lunch at the top.

Ferries

Several islands are also part of Seattle. To get to these islands, we drive our cars into very large ferry boats.  When the boat ride ends at an island, we drive our cars out of the ferry and onto the road.

The Fremont Troll

The troll is Seattle’s fun little secret. He lives under the Aurora Street Bridge in a part of Seattle called Fremont. He is very tall and he likes to eat cars.


Redmond, Washington. Where we live.

Redmond is located between the Cascade Mountains and Puget Sound. We are surrounded by very tall evergreen trees. We have 34 parks and over 25 miles of trails for hiking and bicycling. Two very large companies have their headquarters here. They are Microsoft, the computer company and the maker of the X Box, and Nintendo, the maker of the Wii game machine.

The weather here is not as sunny as California, but it still is pleasant. We do get more rain and the temperatures are lower. Sometimes we get snow. This past winter there was so much snow once, that school was cancelled for a couple of days. Many snowmen were built during those 2 days.

We enjoyed Stanley’s visit with us. We hope you enjoy the photos.

Alan & Nancy Tibbetts (ParPar & Nana to Elena)