Memorial day weekend in Bellingham means Ski to Sea! Events take place all over the city for the whole weekend. While walking around on Sunday, slowly making my way across town where the Ski to Sea race finishes up in Fairhaven (a section of Bellingham) I crossed through Boulevard Park where an old car show was taking place!
The cars themselves were really fun to look at but so were the people. All of the men who owned these cars were standing next to them talking to anyone who would listen. Most had bits of cloth used to shine the vehicles somewhere on their person to keep everything sparkling. Meanwhile the wives had a circle of camp chairs set up behind all the vehicles. They were stocked with coolers, magazines, and the gossip that had built up between the last car show and this one.
On a side not I discovered the local YWCA is a fallout shelter. You can't see it in the picture but there is tiny writing that says "Capacity: 160". So I will just have to beat the whole town there in case of nuclear disaster.
By the way- My friends who created a Ski to Sea team that I wrote about earlier got 396 out of 500. They would have done better (the snowboarder got one of the fastest race times of any team for that leg) but the road biker was really ill the night before, got a flat tire and then a bloody nose during the race. It just wasn't a good day for her. The canoers didn't flip over like we thought they might though!
