Two updates in three days!! You lot will be sick of hearing from me J sitting in Seattle airport waiting for our overnight flight to Chicago.
Seattle must be sad that we only spent a short time with it because it has cried for two days. I guess they don’t call it semi sunny Seattle for nothing. Packed in quite a bit in our three days though – the famous Pike Street Markets where we watched fish throwing and sampled delicacies such as buffalo jerky, dried apple and raspberry honey hazelnuts, Yum!! Did an underground tour, pretty neato but Seattlians (?) were crazy back in the day, building their streets higher (8-30ft) than the foot paths, a large chunk of the city has another storey below it now that they leveled everything out! Later that evening we went and chillaxed with the folk life at the Northern Folklife festival, listened to reggae music and inhaled second hand marijuana smoke from all the teenagers and parents with their toddlers toddling around. Obviously we weren’t as well prepared. Hit up a fun little pub for $6 beer pitchers and continued on into the wee hours.
The next day we set off up to the 73rd floor of the Columbia building - tallest building in Seattle - for a lookout over the city, the guy took a shine to our Kiwi accents and discounted our tickets, gave us his binoculars and told us to come back for another look for free when it was sunny (yea right). We then headed down to the Experience Music Project to check out the Nirvana exhibition and a spot of Battlestar Gallactica. And today we caught a ferry over to the quaint little town of Winslow on Bainbridge Island. Not a lot to do in the rain so we shopped and then read books before coming back to cheer on the Canucks for a couple of hours while blatantly not spending any money at the pub.
Number of dollars hustled off me by the stupid ATM: way too many.
Number of ice hockey games won by the Canucks over the Bruins: 1. Three more wins to go!!! (yes band wagon fan, I know).
Monk Fish at the Fish Market, Pike Place. (Watch out it moves!!)
Pike Place Market Entrance
Photo of Kurt Cobain playing at the same pub we were drinking at.
The original Starbucks
Light in the Underground
Seattle's Most Disgusting Attraction - bubblegum wall.
Kurt Cobains shirt he was wearing on the cover of Spin.
Seattle from the Columbia Tower
Seattle from the Bainbridge Ferry
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