Capturing the Flavor of Seattle

Yes Ryan, you were right. As soon as you walk off the plane at SEATAC, you can smell the coffee!

Here are some more photo's that we took over the weekend in Seattle.

Snoqualmie Falls, a short drive east of Seattle in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. Salish Lodge & Spa is above the falls, on the left.


It was quite entertaining to stand & watch the fishmongers at the market.


Pike Place fish market


The gum wall - Post Alley


Close up section of the Gum Wall


Adding my contribution to the Gum Wall


Alki Point Lighthouse - West Seattle


This is Brian who works at the La Quinta in Everett where we stayed. Very friendly. We talked about the "Mormon's" with him. He was familiar with our religion, told us that he wrote a paper in college on the Seagull Miracle. He had a copy of the Book of Mormon & knew about Joseph Smith & Brigham Young who is on top of that church in Bellevue. (We were able to correct him & let him know that it's Angel Moroni on top of the Temple in Bellevue)




The tree branches were all covered in moss. It looks so neat, I took lots of pictures.



Barry! The reason we came to Seattle


It wouldn't be a trip to the coast without a bowl of clam chowder!


Fresh fruit market across from Pike Place.


Gary - I took this picture for you. We sampled some cheeses at the Farmers Market, but didn't buy any, because I didn't have any way to keep it cool.

Next, some interesting people we saw on the streets:

Cheryl asked this guy what his instrument was called. He told her a Piano. (???!)


We saw these two when we went to the Farmers Market in Ballard. A couple hours later we went back over to Pike Place, and Voila! There they were again.


We saw quite a few people dressed up on St. Patrick's day. This guy won the prize for being most "spiffy looking".


Nice hair! (complete with green St. Patrick's day flower)


This should bring back fond memories to all who went on the 2001 Alaskan Cruise.


Draw bridge that we waited at.


The space needle is so fun. Made me want to come home and watch old episodes of "The Jetson's"


Saw this quilt I liked in an antique store. I need to make one like it some day to use up some scraps.

More from the city of never ending rain

I finally have a little time that I can post more- it's early afternoon, not 2:00 am in the morning.

I didn't want to take the time the other nite to relearn how to post embedded video's. It was just too late. So here you go. Sorry, it's on the side. Turn your head. The concert was Barry fine. Our seats were 11 rows back on the floor, and mighty fine!



It's cold, and Rainy. Some other things that we have done: Farmers Market in Ballard, then back to Pike Place Market. It's much more fun when it's not closed down for the day. We had some wonderful clam chowder at Pike Place Chowder, located at 1530 Post Alley. (Note to family - my heart is still with Moe's in Newport Beach, OR)

Drove over to Mercer Island. Stopped to see the Seattle Temple on the way.




Tonight we are staying in Downtown Seattle, not far from the Space Needle. There is a break in the clouds right now, I can actually see sunshine out the window. It's time to go out for more adventure.

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!