The Fairmont Hotel in downtown Seattle.

I love this hotel.  To tell the truth, I love all Fairmont Hotels.  They are so elegant.  I remember seeing this hotel during my very first visit to this city back in the early 90s and it continues to be elegant as always.  I live close to the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco's Nob Hill and it is equally as grand.

After visiting this hotel, we visited one convention center which had all sorts of brochures as to what to do in Seattle.  When we found out about the Future of Flight, Aviation Center and Boeing Factory Tour we didn't think twice about going.  Once we gathered all the needed information, off we were to the outskirts of the city, to the town of Mulkiteo, Washington to see how and where these marvelous flying steel birds are actually made during the last full day of our 4 day weekend.

We were prohibited from taking pictures of the planes being manufactured inside the BOEING factories.  However, the following images were taken from the company's visitor center which doubled as a mini museum.

This is the nose and fuselage of one EASTERN Airlines plane.

An economy or coach seat

The cockpit of an old airplane.  Visitors can actually sit behind the wheels and pretend to fly this plane.

The tail of an airplane.  This thing is gigantic!

An engine.  This was just as huge as the tail of the airplane.

A Pan Am fuselage.  I flew on Pan Am twice from Madrid, Spain to the US back in the 1990s.   I remember back in the days as a child in Manila when my family and I would see friends and family off at the Manila International Airport.  Everyone we knew flew PAN AM to the States.  I never even heard of UNITED back then.  Just PAN AM and TWA.  Ah, those were the days.

These were just some of the planes we saw being manufactured by BOEING.  We saw a few Cathay Pacific, JAL, ANA, and KLM planes in production inside the factories.  As of this writing, the BOEING Dreamlifter and 747-8s were the latest models being marketed and produced.

From here, Marc took me to see the Seattle Premium Outlets.  We have them back in Northern California too but this place had a TUMI Outlet.  I didn't buy much.  Actually, I just bought one thing.  A key chain for a mere $10 down from $49.  What a bargain!