Seattle Vacation Ideas

If you’ve got an aviation fanatic in the family, a tour of the Boeing facility might be appreciated.

Seattle Tours runs a 4-hour trip that lets you see airplanes in various stages of flight test and manufacture. The complex itself is in the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest building in the world by volume. The building encloses 472 million cubic feet of space (13.3 million cubic meters), and its footprint covers 98.3 acres. It houses the assembly for Boeing’s wide-body aircrafts, such as the 747, 767, and 777.

The tour also takes in the educational Future of Flight Center.

Prices run about $60, and tours leave at 7:30 am and 12:30 pm, daily from May through October (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from November through April).

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It seems that all children go through phases where they love such-and-such animal and can’t get enough posters, stickers, binders, etc. featuring their favorite. Mine was wolves (with horses right up there in the running), but I never did get to visit any in person. There’s always the zoo, but if you live in the Puget Sound area (or are visiting), you could visit Wolf Haven, which is down south of Olympia in Tenino.

The facility rescues captive-born wolves that are on the chopping block (given up by private collectors, roadside zoos, research facilities, etc.) and gives them plots of land to roam and do wolfy things on. Guided tours let you see the wolves and offer educational information on the species, the value of all wildlife, and how to protect the remaining wild wolves and their habitats.

Wolf Haven also has a program where you can “adopt a wolf.” No, you don’t take it home to live on your sofa; you’re basically sponsoring it, but you do get a photo of your wolf, which you can take home and post above the sofa.

Tours run every hour on the hour, every day except Tuesdays:

“Guided tours are approximately 45-50 minutes and cover a variety of educational information on wolves; wolf biology and ecology; and recovery programs and conservation. Information on Wolf Haven’s work for wolf conservation and background information on sanctuary residents is also provided by our trained knowledgeable volunteer tour guides.”

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