Travel Tuesday: Seattle, Washington
Welcome to today's Travel Tuesday! As y'all know, I spent this terminal weekend inwards Seattle visiting my friend Tyler amongst ane of my best gal pals from college, Lucy. If you've been around the weblog for a while, nosotros made a similar trip terminal twelvemonth to St. Louis when Tyler all the same lived there.
Funny affair is that on my terminal 24-hour interval inwards St. Louis Tyler got this labor offering inwards Seattle. For selfish reasons I convinced him to accept it thus nosotros could conception some other trip! And that's what nosotros did. I had never been to Seattle thus I was pretty excited virtually it. I got inwards tardily Th nighttime in addition to left Sun nighttime (took the red-eye dorsum to NYC). Enjoy!
Thursday:
After a half-day at work, I flew out of JFK to Seattle. Thankfully my favorite airline, JetBlue has a nonstop flying thus I was certain to hop on that! I had my movies in addition to music create in addition to it was genuinely the start fourth dimension I've used WiFi on a plane! They receive got it for costless on the flying which is thus clutch.
Flying over Montana was SO BEAUTIFUL. Oh my gosh. The mountains, the water, the sunset. It was simply equally good beautiful.
Once I got in, nosotros drove along the H2O (with a quick halt to accept a painting of the skyline) in addition to thus were off to dinner.
I was craving queso in addition to guac thus evidently the clear choice was to instruct Mexican food. Tyler took us to Cactus on Alki Beach and it was delicious! After dinner it was off to bed since it was similar two am dorsum on the East Coast in addition to nosotros had a lot planned for the adjacent day!
Friday:
Being on eastern time, I woke upward everyday around vii am which was prissy since it was piece of cake to accept total payoff of the day. In the morning, Lucy in addition to I went upward to Tyler's roof to run into the sentiment (and to leave of absence of the means for his conference call).
We couldn't receive got asked for ameliorate weather condition during our fourth dimension there. It was consistently 65 degrees amongst clear skies which is what I'm all about. I also loved the Seattle skyline (which y'all volition come upward to realize). It was simply thus beautiful. It was amazing to await ane means in addition to run into this gorgeous downtown in addition to thus plough around to run into all this greenery in addition to forest.
After our morn at the apartment, nosotros were off to kayak inwards the Puget Sound (the H2O around the city). We used Alki Kayak Tours in addition to they were great. It was super piece of cake to simply instruct in addition to rent a kayak for an hour. Tyler, Lucy in addition to I decided the best (and funniest) determination to brand was to exercise the triple kayak. Because, why not?
Kayaking was a ton of fun (minus all the H2O Lucy threw on me yesteryear beingness inwards front) in addition to I would totally recommend it for anyone visiting Seattle! It was such a cool means to sentiment the metropolis spell also doing something totally out of the norm. We genuinely couldn't receive got asked for ameliorate weather condition during this either. Even the three-person kayak turned out to endure a smashing idea, in addition to nosotros exclusively threatened each other's lives a dyad of times #teambonding.
After a long, difficult 24-hour interval on the H2O (a total of 45 mins -- xv of which were spent kayaking against the wind) nosotros decided it was fourth dimension for luncheon in addition to fourth dimension for us to consume ALL OF THE FOOD. We ate at The Bridge in addition to it was soooo goooood. I got a burger but that's non the of import part. Listen closely: this house lets y'all lodge (amazing) fries in addition to thus it comes amongst SO MANY DIPPING SAUCES. I ate my weight inwards french fries in addition to I'm non fifty-fifty hapless virtually it.
After luncheon nosotros went ran a few errands in addition to thus got create for the Mariners game. One of the things I was looking forwards to most (other than seeing my friends) was going to the baseball game game. I had never been to Safeco Field in addition to (as a baseball game fan) I wanted to banking concern agree it off my list.
The common was beautiful in addition to I couldn't receive got asked for a ameliorate view. It was smashing to endure there, walk around in addition to run into what the common had to offering (yes, it had Dippin Dots). The Mariners didn't terminate upward winning (that's okay because they were playing the Rangers) but it was a smashing game in addition to a smashing night!
Saturday:
Sabbatum was our 24-hour interval downtown doing all the touristy things. We started out at Pike Place Market and went to Lowell's for breakfast. It was thus dang good! And the H2O sentiment was prissy equally good :)
After breakfast, nosotros walked around the (packed) marketplace in addition to simply took it all in! We stopped yesteryear the start Starbucks in addition to Pike Place Fish Co. Both of which I was really excited to run into but was deterred because of the large crowds. At to the lowest degree I got some photos!
After walking around the market, it was fourth dimension for the GUM WALL. I don't know how this wall came to be, but I think it's thus cool, I mean, what a random affair to happen! We bought our bubble mucilage to fix in addition to started chewing. Blowing a large bubble is harder than I remembered!
Now here's where the story gets good. We bought a pack of 5 pieces of mucilage thinking we'll endure good. One for each of us (three) in addition to thus relieve the residue for later. Well, Lucy's start fourth dimension blowing the bubble she accidentally swallowed it. I think nosotros made her express joy in addition to thus all of the precipitous it was gone hahaha. So she took some other slice in addition to didn't mess around this time. Then I started to blow mine in addition to it was hard! I couldn't instruct a large bubble in addition to I tried thus difficult the mucilage flew out of my oral fissure in addition to on to the ground!
Everyone around had a skilful express joy (including myself) in addition to thus I simply picked it upward in addition to literally threw it on the wall (see below):
Thankfully I had ONE slice left in addition to mastered the fine art of blowing an okay sized bubble (see below). I thus chewed it upward in addition to left my grade on the wall! Tyler played it prophylactic in addition to simply stuck his on similar a normal person.
After the mucilage wall, nosotros took an Uber a uptown to instruct to the Sky View Observatory of Columbia Tower. Columbia Tower is the tallest edifice inwards Seattle in addition to a lot similar the Empire State Building or the Willis Tower, this edifice has a exceed flooring observatory that looks over the city. It was a cool sense beingness upward thus high in addition to seeing all of Seattle inwards ane view. One of my favorite things virtually the metropolis is that off inwards the not-so-far distance are all these beautiful mountains.
After the observatory, nosotros went to Kerry Park. I think ane of y'all recommended it to me in addition to I can't give cheers y'all enough! This was yesteryear far my favorite sentiment of the city. Getting to run into the skyline from this side was a prissy alter of mensuration but what I genuinely loved was the skyline + the mount view.
After Kerry Park, nosotros went over to the Space Needle. I receive got to acknowledge that I was a petty underwhelmed at how pocket-size the needle is! I thought it was this huge iconic affair but it wasn't genuinely downtown in addition to it was small! We decided to skip going upward to the exceed since nosotros got a ameliorate sentiment from the heaven deck but nosotros all the same checked out the grounds.
For lunch, nosotros stopped at the EMP museum in addition to had a few drinks earlier heading dorsum to the even for some Netflix in addition to a nap! After our nap nosotros went out for dinner, drinks in addition to karaoke at Talarico's. I ended the nighttime yesteryear rapping "Shoop" yesteryear Salt in addition to Peppa.
Sunday:
Sun started early on (of course) in addition to at Luna Park Cafe. Driving by, y'all would totally overlook Moon Park Cafe but it's definitely ane of the genuinely skilful local spots inwards the city. It was quaint in addition to styled similar an former schoolhouse diner but it was some of the best breakfast I've had inwards a while! I also loved that it was super inexpensive :)
After breakfast nosotros drove virtually an hr exterior the metropolis to Snoqualmie Falls. Oh human being was it beautiful!! We started out at the exceed to run into this view:
Then made our means to the bottom to instruct existent unopen in addition to personal. Getting downwards in addition to dorsum upward from the waterfall was quite a trek in addition to makes for a smashing story but I'll leave of absence this ane out in addition to simply allow y'all run into how beautiful the house was:
After a lot of stone climbing, nosotros made our means dorsum to the metropolis amongst a halt at Lake Washington. Tyler took us to this petty individual beach that he loves to see in addition to on our means upward nosotros saw a naked human being coming out of the water! I was inwards stupor in addition to nosotros all started laughing until nosotros saw a petty nudist community taking upward this beach. Then nosotros genuinely started laughing, nosotros simply couldn't believe it! It was a sight but hey, to a greater extent than ability to them!
After that petty adventure, nosotros stopped at McGilvra's for luncheon in addition to thus drove dorsum to the apartment. We hung out on the roof for the terminal few hours I was at that spot in addition to enjoyed the beautiful weather condition in addition to the view.
So overall, I had a horrible in addition to piece of cake trip. Can't y'all tell?! Hahah but really, it was ane of the coolest weekends ever. I was able to exercise everything on my listing in addition to thus some. I got to relish the beautiful weather condition in addition to scenery Seattle had to offering AND I got to hang out amongst some of my closets friends. Sounds similar a pretty awesome weekend to me!
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