Bell Harbor Marina

We’d been by Bell Harbor Marina on the Seattle waterfront dozens of times and always thought that staying the night there and poking around the shops would make a fun date. The 30th birthday party for our good friends Jen and Harley—held in a downtown bar—proved to be the perfect excuse to head over to Bell Harbor.

The marina wasn’t quite what we were expecting, but I guess if we’d have thought a little more about it we would have come to the conclusion that it’s a noisy, urban marina hidden behind a cruise ship filled with power boaters (not that there’s anything wrong with the power boat crowd, but…). Let's just say it wasn't exactly a quiet, relaxing getaway. Nevertheless, it was a beautiful day, and we enjoyed our tour of the waterfront, our dinner on the patio overlooking the Sound and the birthday festivities.

As I said to Aaron while we were leaving the marina this morning (passing the diesel barge refilling the Norwegian Pearl cruise ship), that was certainly was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. :)