{"id":42,"date":"2010-10-24T12:17:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T19:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2010-10-24T12:17:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T19:17:52","slug":"fall-comes-to-lake-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/fall-comes-to-lake-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall comes to Lake Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the weather is changing in our little corner of Seattle (and beyond)\u00c2\u00a0 I admit I don&#8217;t like going outside quite as much when it&#8217;s pouring rain!\u00c2\u00a0 Fortunately, it&#8217;s not doing that yet (very much, that is!)\u00c2\u00a0 But, the leaves are turning, and it&#8217;s getting darker earlier and earlier&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>We had some fantastic, fit visitors this week!\u00c2\u00a0 My pal PJ Glassey, who<a title=\"Flight Training\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/training.php\" target=\"_blank\"> learned to fly here <\/a>at Seattle Seaplanes, stopped by with a bunch of his &#8220;stepbrothers and stepsisters,&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 and my friend Kit took them up for <a title=\"Scenic Flights\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/scenic.php\" target=\"_blank\">scenic flights<\/a>!\u00c2\u00a0 They (including Kit) had just completed the American Lung Association&#8217;s <a title=\"American Lung Association Stairclimb\" href=\"http:\/\/action.lungusa.org\/site\/TR?fr_id=2100&amp;pg=entry\" target=\"_blank\">Fight For Air Stairclimb <\/a>over in Bellevue.\u00c2\u00a0 PJ&#8217;s team, &#8220;Xgym Wins Again,&#8221; raised over $3,000 for the cause, and were the fastest to the top, too!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Several of the athletes are ranked as the<a title=\"Top Stairclimbers in the world\" href=\"http:\/\/towerrunning.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> top competitive stairclimbers <\/a>in the world, and I loved meeting world-class athletes.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;re pretty good at playing tug-of-war with me and my orange toy bone!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(by the way, that&#8217;s PJ flexing his muscles on the top of our Flight Training page)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_45\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Toby-and-friends.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45\" title=\"Toby and the world's best stairclimbers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Toby-and-friends-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Toby-and-friends-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Toby-and-friends-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here I am with my pal PJ, and alll his stairclimbing buddies<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Because I have four legs, it would take me a while to climb the stairs, so I&#8217;m going to leave it to the experts!<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, this week, we had visitors from Romania, England, and many other places.\u00c2\u00a0 The weather may be turning, but it&#8217;s still a great day to fly!<\/p>\n<p>We also had a flight up to Mt. Rainier &#8211; isn&#8217;t it gorgeous?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_00631.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47\" title=\"Mt Rainier\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_00631-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_00631-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_00631-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mt Rainier, as viewed from N5721T<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"mceTemp\">\u00c2\u00a0So, the weather may be turning, but we&#8217;re still flying. Come see Seattle from above!\u00c2\u00a0 (no stairclimbing required!)<\/p>\n<p><em>Cheers,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Toby James<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the weather is changing in our little corner of Seattle (and beyond)\u00c2\u00a0 I admit I don&#8217;t like going outside quite as much when it&#8217;s pouring rain!\u00c2\u00a0 Fortunately, it&#8217;s not doing that yet (very much, that is!)\u00c2\u00a0 But, the leaves &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/fall-comes-to-lake-union\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}