Seattle

There's no way to miss Seattle's Space Needle in the Queen Anne's district, but the Garden of Glass Exhibition won't be in town much longer. We didn't go in the exhibition but you can see enough from outside the gates to tell it's a spectacular work of art. We headed downtown where locals and tourists flood Pike's Place Market, the oldest continually running market in the states. I got a pound of rainier cherries, which Washington is renowned for, and two nectarines--YUM!! Fish mongers yell orders and throw fish to one another, entertaining great groups of people. Everything and anything for sale!! We visited a famous old magic shop, a used book store, an AWESOME map shop, and ate at the side street Falafel King, sharing a wrap, while watching the city pass by, then walked to Post Alley where Chris faced the wall of GUM (I don't do well with birds, Chris doesn't do well with gum). The next day we made sure we got a Seattle coffee (not a Starbucks coffee, but the original Starbucks is located in Seattle next to Pike's Market). Chris and I enjoyed Seattle and got to see a bit of it all: the historic district, Pioneer Square (with hundreds lined up outside the soup kitchen), the shopping district (with every major name brand store to imagine), the bohemian district, Fremont (where I took Chris to find a big ol troll under a bridge, built to honor the arts of Fremont), and the business district (busy, busy, busy...). And to top it all off we saw a Ferrari take of down main street and the buildings carried its beautiful sound through blocks and blocks away.