The weekend before last we decided to finally ride the Washington State Ferry to Bainbridge Island. We'd ridden it once before when we came here on vacation in May of 2006 and thought it was awesome, but we hadn't done it since we moved here. We walked all the way from our apartment down to the ferry dock and barely missed the one leaving at 3:00, so we had to wait until 3:45 to ride the next one. In the meantime, we went back down by the piers and got a cone of strawberry ice cream that was really good. I wanted mint chocolate chip, but Troy doesn't like that flavor for some reason, so I compromised and got strawberry. It was cool to watch as the cars came off the next ferry before we boarded. It was sunny and nice outside, so we could see the city and surrounding area pretty clearly.

We didn't have to wait too long before boarding the ferry. You can sit out on the deck and some people even feed the seagulls that follow the ship across the Sound. We sat outside and enjoyed the view of the city and the sound. It only took about 45 minutes to get to Bainbridge Island. Once we were there, we walked around the small town square. A lot of the shops were closed because it was Sunday, but we didn't really see anything that interested us anyway. We took the next ferry back to Seattle and went home. It was pretty fun to go out on the water like that and I'm sure we'll do it again some day.