Today was our first full day in Seattle. Colleen has never been here before so I wanted to make sure that she saw everything there was to see here! We started off our morning at Pikes Place Public Market. I LOVE this market! And Colleen did too. She has actually decided that if she moves here, that's where she would like to live. I really hope that works out.
I was here a couple of years ago to visit Kathryn and she had taken me to eat some delicious tiny donuts in the market so I followed my nose and...success!! We found the tiny donuts! We also were given samples of salmon jerkey, smoked salmon, and apple chips. Glorious! Once we were done with all that, it was time to go on the coffee crawl that we signed up for. If you find yourself in Seattle anytime soon, I highly recommend it. I don't even like coffee and I had a great time. Although, it probably helped that because it was Valentine's weekend, it was a coffee and chocolate tour. We started at Seattle's Best Coffee which ironically enough was my favorite. Colleen got to have TWO tiny mocha's because she answered a trivia question correctly.
After that it was off to the original Starbucks which is actually the 4th Starbucks but I won't get into all those details. We didn't have a sample there because I think everyone has had a drink at Starbucks...unless they are one of those weird Starbucks boycotters. After that it was off to Seattle Coffee Works where we had 3 different coffees and and 3 kinds of chocolate. This is where I confirmed that I indeed hate coffee. We also confirmed that the baristas here LOVE coffee. The guy helping us told us about how much he loves talking about coffee and can get into pretty much any conversation he has. He also talked about rootbeer floats. Though we were tempted once we heard about the rootbeer floats, we decided not to leave him our number.
Then went to went to Westlake Plaza to go to Dilelantes and had another mocha and salted caramel. Note: Emel and Colleen don't like salted caramel. After that it was off to Monorail Espresso and had one of their famous Chubbie cookies. Note: Emel and Colleen LOVE Chubbie cookies. After that we went down to the bus tunnel and rode it to Pioneer Square where they took us to Travant and met Tom the Barista. We got to try some chocolate called Insomnia. Then went Zeitgeist and had no coffee and couldn't get into the bathroom. This was the end of tour. Two thumbs way way up!
Then our tour guide left and we were on our own and to top it off, we were hopped up on caffeine!! We went to international district where of all things, we stopped by the post office and bought stamps. We were planning on eating lunch in the international district (aka Chinatown) because Lent starts next weekend and I'll be giving up Asian food again but after an abundance of coffee, we really weren't that hungry. So we got bubble tea! China town was seedy so then we got the he'll out of there.
We tried to go up in Smith Tower--fail. So we went to pioneer square, posed with statues and then went to Banana Republic. Is there Banana Republic in the midwest? Did Colleen once make me go to 3 Banana Republics in Chicago in one day looking for a sweater?
Then we went to Space Needle which has a gift shop filled with almost anything you could ever want in the shape of Space Needles including Space NOODLES! After that it was of to the Music and Science Fiction museum which we actually just walked around. The we took pictures by the fountain which must have been a great decision because that's when the sun came out!
Then we went to Olympic Sculpture Park and saw lots of art. Or things that people told us were art at least. It looked questionable to me. As we were finishing up there the weather took a turn for the worst so we headed back to the market and went to the cheese place and ate Mariachi Mac & Cheese, cheese curds, and cheese tapinade.
Then crazy Colleen made us workout...on vacation! As though walking around Seattle for 7 hours wasn't enough of a workout. After that we went back to the market AGAIN!! --we're pretty obsessed with the market. We ate at the Pike's Place Chinese Restaurant. That made up for lunch. Then we went down Post Alley (which I called Diagon Alley) to an Irish bar called Kells to check out the young scene. If we move here, we could quite possibly some of the best looking people. But we couldn't conclude on this for sure because we were also told that Kells is haunted by a Ginger so maybe not everyone comes there for fun nights out.
It was quite a busy day and lucky for us we have a jam packed agenda for tomorrow too!
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