Another Seattle Trip

I visited Seattle last weekend with three of my friends, CH, LT, and AJ.

We began our excursion at 9 am on Saturday morning when LT and AJ arrived at CH's place where I was staying. We piled into the Focus and began the long, what turned into approximately 3.5 hour, journey up to the northern-most reaches of Washington.

The weather was not as nice as we thought. It was cloudy and looked like rain. We were all wearing dresses and skirts so, of course, we were freezing at first. The first stop was at our hotel. We stayed at the Days Inn which could have been worse. The outside of the hotel was very, very crummy but the room was not too bad, and none of it could have compared with the worlds nastiest hotel. So we dropped our things off and proceeded to walk into downtown, which was only a few blocks away.

The weather had started to let up and the sun was finally coming out. Though, it never did get above 70 degrees F. We wandered around town, went shopping, and ate a late lunch at an old restaurant that had a Tuscan feel. (Someone had written "Frank Sinatra sat here" on a chalk board, but when we asked, we learned that in fact, he had NOT sat there, or anywhere for that matter.)

After our first outing, we were beat, so we went back to the hotel at 815 and rested until about 10 pm when we ventured back out for dinner. I had given up on dresses at that point and went out wearing jeans. It was a good plan because I was freezing even still. We at at a place called The Apartment which had really good food. Though, CH complained that her crab something-or-other sandwich had little flavor. I can't vouch for that because I avoid shellfish.

Afterwards, we returned to the hotel, completely drained. Upon waking up at 6 am (to ensure enough time for all to shower) we got ready and left the hotel at 745 to go back out to the Pike Street Market. LT and I wasted money on flowers and CH and I purchased Piroshki. Yum. Unfortunately, due to circumstances, we had to leave by 830 am which put us back in Portland at 1130.

A short trip. Delicious food though.

(On a side note, Seattle has a LOT of street Jesus freaks. There were people everywhere shouting at pedestrians about sinning and such. Though I think I would take that over Portland's very excessive petitioners if I could.)