We spent a lovely day in Tacoma on Saturday, starting with a drive to Point Defiance's Fort Nisqually, which was having its annual celebration of Queen Victoria's birthday as it was celebrated at the fort in 1846 with toasts, volleys and cannon fire, plus tea, a maypole, and crafts (I got to make a lavender sachet and try three-ingredient shortbread). We ate sandwiches on the porch while listening to bagpipes and tin whistles.
Then we went to Point Defiance's rhododendron garden, which is still in bloom, and walked around one of the loops with huge ferns and banana slugs before we headed into downtown Tacoma. We walked over the Chihuly Bridge of Glass to the train station and the UW campus, which have more glass on display and a Starbucks, and came back via the Museum of Glass gift shop and the boats in the harbor, then drove home for dinner and The Night Agent.
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