Feb 6, 2019, 2:12 pm
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other plans will be added to the wiki as they firm up
Saturday March 23
Boeing Factory Tour at 10:30am: (buy your own ticket and meet us there, or coordinate carpooling in the thread)
Zorak (Sheraton Grand)
Zorak +1 (BLI)
CMK10 (airport Hilton)
BenA (local)
jrl767 (local)
DELee +1 (likely HGI Everett)
Afternoon option A:
lunch at Anthony’s Beach Cafe, Edmonds Marina ~1pm
jrl767
Mrs767
DELee +1
CMK10
Scratch Distillery tour and tasting ~230pm
jrl767
Mrs767
DELee +1 (daughter is 21 y/o)
CMK10
Afternoon option B:
lunch at Diamond Knot Alehouse, 621 Front Street, Mukilteo, WA 98275
Zorak +1
BenA
Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Musem
Zorak +1
BenA
Saturday dinner:
7pm Toulouse Petit (Lower Queen Anne) - (unfortunately the linked menu is from Nov 2017, but the current version is probably reasonably similar)
Confirmed/Extremely likely:
Zorak +1
jinglish
nomadic.relief
CMK10
steveman518
jrl767 +1
BenA
DELee +1
[signups are now [b]CLOSED -- the restaurant needed an accurate advance headcount for a group this size -- if you are interested in joining please send a PM to Zorak and we'll see if they can add more people]
Sunday March 24
breakfast/brunch at 1115am
13 Coins, 255 S King St (Pioneer Square, adjacent to King Street Station)
jrl767+1
Zorak
DELee +1
nomadic.relief maybe
jinglish
Museum of Flight group tour info ... suggested time perhaps 1200-1400
Resource thread: Northwest forum: GUIDE to touring Boeing plant, Flight museums in the Seattle area. Post #2 covers the Boeing factory tour and vicinity.
Saturday March 23
Boeing Factory Tour at 10:30am: (buy your own ticket and meet us there, or coordinate carpooling in the thread)
Zorak (Sheraton Grand)
Zorak +1 (BLI)
CMK10 (airport Hilton)
BenA (local)
jrl767 (local)
DELee +1 (likely HGI Everett)
Afternoon option A:
lunch at Anthony’s Beach Cafe, Edmonds Marina ~1pm
jrl767
Mrs767
DELee +1
CMK10
Scratch Distillery tour and tasting ~230pm
jrl767
Mrs767
DELee +1 (daughter is 21 y/o)
CMK10
Afternoon option B:
lunch at Diamond Knot Alehouse, 621 Front Street, Mukilteo, WA 98275
Zorak +1
BenA
Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Musem
Zorak +1
BenA
Saturday dinner:
7pm Toulouse Petit (Lower Queen Anne) - (unfortunately the linked menu is from Nov 2017, but the current version is probably reasonably similar)
Confirmed/Extremely likely:
Zorak +1
jinglish
nomadic.relief
CMK10
steveman518
jrl767 +1
BenA
DELee +1
[signups are now [b]CLOSED -- the restaurant needed an accurate advance headcount for a group this size -- if you are interested in joining please send a PM to Zorak and we'll see if they can add more people]
Sunday March 24
breakfast/brunch at 1115am
13 Coins, 255 S King St (Pioneer Square, adjacent to King Street Station)
jrl767+1
Zorak
DELee +1
nomadic.relief maybe
jinglish
Museum of Flight group tour info ... suggested time perhaps 1200-1400
Resource thread: Northwest forum: GUIDE to touring Boeing plant, Flight museums in the Seattle area. Post #2 covers the Boeing factory tour and vicinity.
Boeing Factory Tour/PAE/SEA mini-DO March 22-24, 2019
Jan 25, 2019, 12:48 pm
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Boeing Factory Tour/PAE/SEA mini-DO March 22-24, 2019
A non-FT friend and I have been talking about doing the Boeing Factory Tour for a while now, and recently determined that Saturday, March 23 works for both of us, so we have booked the 10:30am tour.
https://www.futureofflight.org/boeing-tour-seattle
I've also pinged a couple of the SEA-area FTers, so let's try to make a mini-DO out of it
Tentative schedule:
Friday March 22:
- some arrival thing if people get in early enough (probably not me though, getting in at 10pm)
Saturday March 23:
- could try to meet up for breakfast beforehand if there is enough motivation
- Boeing tour at 10:30am <-- this is the only firm plan
- lunch somewhere near PAE (either of the options mentioned at https://www.futureofflight.org/dining seem relevant to my interests)
- afternoon: maybe the Flying Heritage Museum? FHCAM - Home
- dinner probably back in Seattle somewhere
Sunday March 24:
- brunch
- whatever
- departure
If interested in joining, please go ahead and buy your own tour ticket (if we actually threaten to come close to 15 participants we can try asking them for the group rate retroactively maybe) and we can coordinate carpooling etc. via the thread or something but otherwise have some backup plan for your own transportation.
Suggestions for other activities welcomed; also if anyone has any "ins" at Boeing/PAE and wants to hook us up that'd be great too
https://www.futureofflight.org/boeing-tour-seattle
I've also pinged a couple of the SEA-area FTers, so let's try to make a mini-DO out of it
Tentative schedule:
Friday March 22:
- some arrival thing if people get in early enough (probably not me though, getting in at 10pm)
Saturday March 23:
- could try to meet up for breakfast beforehand if there is enough motivation
- Boeing tour at 10:30am <-- this is the only firm plan
- lunch somewhere near PAE (either of the options mentioned at https://www.futureofflight.org/dining seem relevant to my interests)
- afternoon: maybe the Flying Heritage Museum? FHCAM - Home
- dinner probably back in Seattle somewhere
Sunday March 24:
- brunch
- whatever
- departure
If interested in joining, please go ahead and buy your own tour ticket (if we actually threaten to come close to 15 participants we can try asking them for the group rate retroactively maybe) and we can coordinate carpooling etc. via the thread or something but otherwise have some backup plan for your own transportation.
Suggestions for other activities welcomed; also if anyone has any "ins" at Boeing/PAE and wants to hook us up that'd be great too
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Jan 25, 2019, 12:57 pm
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The Historic Flight Foundation on the other side of the airfield is also worth a visit
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Jan 25, 2019, 2:44 pm
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Jan 25, 2019, 2:45 pm
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Jan 25, 2019, 2:47 pm
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Jan 25, 2019, 2:48 pm
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Jan 25, 2019, 6:56 pm
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Sounds like fun.
I'm currently scheduled out of the country, but if something changes, I'll try to make it ^
I'm currently scheduled out of the country, but if something changes, I'll try to make it ^
Jan 26, 2019, 12:59 am
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If people are going to be around for dinner Saturday/brunch Sunday, I can definitely confirm for those ... Saturday-day events are a bit iffier, technically I am scheduled to work until 2pm, but that employer is a touch unreliable regarding Saturday shifts. So count me in for anything after, say 430pm on Saturday, barring traffic snafus/getting lost in rural WA again, and if I can make it down for the Boeing tour, I will - still have never been. 
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Jan 26, 2019, 11:32 am
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Something to do (pun intended) near Seattle is to drive to Woodenville for wine tasting. We did this at some SEA DO, IIRC the one to thank the PMNW Seattle based call center when they were eliminated in the merger.
Jan 26, 2019, 5:25 pm
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it’s Woodinville ... that’s with an iseriously: my caveat would be that the wineries out that way get ridiculously crowded on both Sat and Sun afternoons and you’re apt to spend more time in transit between two venues less than a mile apart than you spend doing the tasting at either
that said, there’s a business complex that hosts both a very good distillery (JP Trodden) and several small wineries; there may even be a microbrewery in the vicinity
Jan 26, 2019, 5:37 pm
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I'd like to make it but airfares will need to come down a bit. I'm seeing lots of lower fares out into the first week of March, maybe the prices for these days will come down in the next 3 weeks or so.
Jan 27, 2019, 12:08 pm
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I didn't get a chance to do it on my trip 3 years ago, but just pointing out that there's also The Museum of Flight (including the Boeing red barn) not too far from SEA-TAC airport. We missed a turn on the way to the Avis dropoff and ended up coming across RA001 (the first Boeing 747), and took a few photos. One day I will visit the actual museum.
Have fun though, the scale of those factory floors are mindboggling. You look down like "Oh yeah, three planes. Wait. Three 747-8i?!"
Oh and food wise, I discovered Din Tai Fung when in Beijing and the xiao long bao (soup dumplings) are lifechanging. So maybe hit up one of their locations (there's one 10min from SEATAC in a mall). Not sure how well it works for a 'mini-Do'.
Have fun though, the scale of those factory floors are mindboggling. You look down like "Oh yeah, three planes. Wait. Three 747-8i?!"
Oh and food wise, I discovered Din Tai Fung when in Beijing and the xiao long bao (soup dumplings) are lifechanging. So maybe hit up one of their locations (there's one 10min from SEATAC in a mall). Not sure how well it works for a 'mini-Do'.
Jan 27, 2019, 2:17 pm
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