No Sleep for us in Seattle

I arrived in Seattle last nite along with my two sisters and my traveling companion Garmin. It's been a typical day in Seattle. Rain! Here's what it looked like when we woke up this morning and looked out the window of our motel that is just off I-5 in Everett:



Ever heard of Archie McPhee's? It's one of those places that you probably should visit at least once when you come to Seattle, just so you can say "been there, done that". We did find some fun items to buy - Maybe you will be the lucky recipient of one of these things in the near future. Go to their website and check them out.









This afternoon we went on the Underground tour. That was a lot of fun, and very interesting to learn about Seattle's early history.

If you want to know more about this, check out their website also! (Sorry, it's late, and I don't want to take the time to go into a lot of detail, so you are going to have to do your own homework if you wish to know more)


Here are some of the 'fine' folks that were on the tour with us. You can see some stuff hanging down from the top of the picture, is it moss growing down from the skylights that are in the sidewalks above (street level).


Then we walked down to Pike Place Market. Things were just closing up for the day, which was disappointing. I hope we will get another chance to go down there.


One of the flower markets we saw


I thought this was pretty, the flower boxes with daffodil's blooming in them.


Last stop of the evening! It's always fun to walk into a Trader Joe's. Here's something I purchased:


Here we are in the land of Starbucks - everyone you pass on the street has a cup of coffee in hand. Probably because it is so dang cold here, they need something to warm their hands & tummies. Trader Joe's had a HUGE assortment of coffee, and one little tiny section on the bottom shelf with this one brand of cocoa. I went back and looked a couple times before I finally even found the cocoa.


This picture has two stories. #1 - I bought this cute little mini daffodil at Trader Joe's. It's a fun touch of spring! #2 - We went to Albertsons to get a bottle of salsa to put on the omlets that they have on the continental breakfast here at the motel. Just inside the door at Albertson's is a self-serve place where you can buy coffee from a machine. We stood & looked at it, and decided it would be nice if we had some of those coffee cups for our hot chocolate. So we helped ourselves to a cup, lid, stirring stick, & little cardboard thingie to go around the cup. Tomorrow we will look just like every other person in Seattle!