NW Harbor Architecture & A Boat Party

I love living in

~Gig Harbor~

I get to say Gig Harbor

because that's our address

We are not actually in the

~harbor~

we are around the corner in

~Henderson Bay~

just over the

~Purdy spit bridge~

I love coming home and crossing that bridge...

seeing the tide way out..

or sometimes the waves are wildly whipping in the wind

or some days it is so calm it is like a lake...

We've only been here 4 years

and I have really grown to

~love~

it here

 last Saturday..

our good friends from Seattle

just hopped in their boat and came down for the

weekend...

we got to go touring around the area with them

~Captain Doug~

Just a last minute

"are you going to be around today?"

YES WE ARE COME ON DOWN!!!

Lucky Us

I love the homes on the water but don't

get the chance to take pictures of them often

I grabbed my camera and here is what you find

on the water in the NW

these are in the Harbor

The one on the right

I toured a few years ago

it was for sale for

4.5 million

they wanted to move to L.A.

where their children are in the movie industry

the son is a movie star and darned if I can't remember his name

it's still for sale..

and I'm guessing for half the price it was

I loved everything about it..

I wonder if the boat comes with it?

These are condos

I'm not crazy about modern

especially in the Harbor

are you?

Now this one I love

I would love this home in

Montana

This is at the end of the Harbor

Our good friends just bought the home with

the A-frame roof and tall chimney

we are so glad they made the move here

On the far right is the famous

Anthony's Seafood Restaurant

after having dinner there our friends

climb those stairs home

can you see the stairs?

The gray house on the left with the white trim & blue awning

is another set of friends

this is the area where they take the pictures of the Harbor for

magazines...like the one I used at the top

they have the million dollar view from their place

Leaving the Harbor

we troll past the famous

~tides tavern~

These homes are right at the mouth of the harbor

There is new construction going on

They have to park up above..

hmmm not sure I would like that

look at these cute little cabins...

all have to be walked down to

There were so many beautiful homes above the water

I could be out there all day!

Ok this one I would have to say is a

~favorite~

and our destination...

our good friends

and their

beautiful home

I am in love, no

~lust~

with their home

inside and out done to

~perfection~

both the new one and the

"yellow house"

belong to them

The yellow one is for sale...

we are trying to get our

Seattle Besties

interested so they will be closer...

just look at their new view

can you see

Mt Rainer above Tacoma?

I think they're bonding...

We headed back to Gig Harbor

under the Tacoma Narrows bridge

that afternoon my Dad brought his boat over

and we all hooked up together

Did you notice the name of my Dad's boat

he loves me...

yeah they did jump in their boat and meet us in town for dinner..

They are going to tie up to our

Seattle Besties boat

notice they fly the Swedish and Finnish

flags

we had a bit of wind but it was a nice warm day

I somehow missed a getting a picture of their marvelous boat

that we spent the day on

the whole family came

more bonding...

Dad BBQ'd hamburgers

&

we enjoyed the harbor

and the company

and it was

a fantastic evening

Thanks to our good friends

who just called to say

"are you going be around today?"

I hope she can someday leave her darling

cottage on Lake Washington and come

south to be closer

we have so much fun together!