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Published: August 14th 2007
Seattle
view from Westin hotel - Got to the airport a little late, which wouldn't have been a problem if the people I was standing near weren't so obnoxious. Big Brooklyn crazy dad was talking up a storm to everyone in his path, and this weird preteen behind me kept playing the same tune over and over on her little wood-flute-pipe-thing... it wouldn't have bothered me s' much if she was actually good at it.
Anyway we got on the plane, got good seats, and the flight really didn't seem that long. The weather was it's famous cloudy-drizzle mess.. which was fine with me. That would be weird to go to Seattle and have beach weather, no?
Anyway.. it was kind of funny that the very first thing I see as I'm walking out of that tunnel from the plane to the terminal is a Starbucks. RIGHT THERE. I heard or read somewhere that there are over 100 Starbucks in a 5 mile radius of the Westin Hotel. WHAT!? Crazy. Anyway we take a cab into the city and go to our hotel. Had quite the view. and it was quite the location too. You could see the monorail right from our
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MONORAIL! window.
After we settle in, we head out and sort of just roam the streets. Nice clean streets. We end up eating at PF Changs. I know they're a chain, but I haven't been.. wow. The best Chinese food I've ever had. Then we call it a night.
Day 2 - First thing I wanted to do was ride the monorail to the Space Needle. We got there super early.. which is like 9:00. (The monorail, by the way, only goes about a mile or so. But it's better than a stinky cab.) We were some of the only people up on the Space Needle, too. I didn't realize how small and remote it is from the rest of the city. In pictures it looks so huge and in the middle of everything, but no. But there are nice views up there. I think it cost like $16. Didn't try the restaurant.
Back on the ground we walked over a block and got on the Ride the Ducks tour bus/boat. It's a little humiliating to ride one of those things, but oh my god it was fun. Our captain's name was Jess Kidden. So there's a
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Space Needle laugh right there. We saw all these kids in line at the big music building in cloaks and he goes 'On your right you'll see some sort of child devil convention.' haha it was a Jedi camp. But yea, he made these terrible jokes the entire time and no one ever laughed so he hit the laugh track... Sarah and I almost went into hysterics. Nothing is funnier than a laugh track, to me. So he drove us 'round in this huge boat thing and then drove us straight into the water. It was neat, but by this time he had just flown down the freeway, and Sarah, mom, and I are all in the back without jackets so it is FREEZING. But that was pretty much the only bad part about it.
Once that was over, we went to the world-famous Pike Place Market! Lots o' stuff. Including the world's first Starbucks (they don't put enough ice in the frappuchinos to be honest). Oh and holy crap the flowers there were incredible. and what a steal, too! You could get this giant bouquet o' flowers for like what? $15? It was nuts. But not as nuts as those
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view from the top of the Space Needle Fish Market guys. They were pretty cool.
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