Arrived in Seattle after a short 2.5 hour flight. Such a difference in weather, nice and chilly here compared to Vegas. We managed to check into our hotel early, despite the hotel having a computer systems crash.
We are staying in Bellevue, which is on the other side of the Sound. Interesting way that they set up the public transport across from Bellevue to Seattle downtown. There's a tunnel that the SoundTransit buses and train only goes through, under a good section of downtown Seattle. This means there will be no traffic jams for those buses, making it quite efficient. They also offer free public transport in the downtown area during office hours.
It was my only free day to explore Seattle, so we decided to head out quickly, despite being somewhat tired, and see the sights. We went to Pike Place Markets first - where they have a huge collection of art, crafts, fruit and fish. The place is well known for the fish guys calling out in unison and then throwing fish across to each other. We were somewhat hungry by then so stopped there and had a nice seafood lunch while overlooking the Puget Sound bay. The day was beautiful - crisp air, but warm and apparently very unlike Seattle - we brought the Aussie weather with us! Yumi couldn't help herself with all the lovely fruit and ended up buying a huge pomegranate and a couple of punnets of raspberries and blackberries.
We next caught the Monorail out to the Seattle Space Needle, the most iconic image of Seattle really - and took the trip up and got some awesome photos from up top and down below - especially after we discovered the beautiful pinky/purple EMP building with it's wonderful metallic surface was just made for reflective shots. Yumi and I both photo-geeked out and spent a good hour taking photos at various angles. We walked up to the top of the hill afterwards (planning to get more photos) and noticed that there was an IMAX theatre nearby and so decided to catch a movie together - we saw Real Steel and enjoyed it, then took yet more photos of the Space Needle as it was dark by then.
We had dinner in a local pub in Seattle downtown before heading back to the hotel where we promptly crashed.
- J
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