Adventures with the other side

We just returned from a long weekend in Washington, we flew down to attend a family reunion with my husband’s family in Olympia and had decided to take an extra night and stay at a “haunted hotel” in Seattle while we did some fun tourist stuff. Richard’s brother and Conner would also be with us, so when I went on the hunt for the perfect Seattle haunted hotel I wanted one big enough to comfortably sleep three adults and a child, close to attractions we might want to see and of course, the hotel needed to have history and preferably original era décor.   I found the Marqueen hotel on line; it is located in the Queen Anne neighborhood, a close walk to the space needle and the monorail to the pier, it seemed perfect. Grand staircase 3rd floor hall I fell in love with this light fixture 1st floor hall The Marqueen was originally built in 1918 as the Seattle Engineering School and used to retrain blacksmiths who worked at the Ford assembly plant. In 1920,

I have visited Dachau twice, the first time on a sister vacation to Germany and the second when my daughter and I visited Germany for her high school graduation trip. Memorial of the different badges that prisoners wore. Dachau was one of the first concentration camps established by the Nazis in 1933 as time went on not only Jews but also Jehovah Witnesses, Gypsies, homosexuals and anyone else the Nazi party deemed inferior were brought to Dachau. After Kristallnacht in November 1938 the number of Jews increased considerably. In 1942 when the systematic extermination of Jews began many Jewish prisoners were transferred from Dachau to the mass extermination camps located in Poland. From the moment you arrive at Dachau concentration camp you feel a sense of sadness. On both trips we first walked to the area where the train would stop and prisoners would be unloaded and sorted, as you stand there you are filled with such a feeling of desperation, thinking how frig