Thanks to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (whose "I Have a Dream" speech I just watched with my roommates to appropriately celebrate), I just had a three day weekend! It was especially awesome because I spent it in Seattle! I'd never been there, or anywhere in the Northwest, so it was pretty great. I went up to visit Megan before she heads off to Lubbock forever. We had a blast. I'll try to sum it all up fairly quickly and only put the best pictures in. But, just warning you, it's going to be hard.
I got there on Friday morning. My flight left Salt Lake at 7am. We went right to the city from the airport and started at the classic Pike's Place Market. It was just as great as everyone has always said it is. I loved it. We even saw the guys throw some fish. We took a little jaunt to the gum wall which I thought was pretty awesome, walked around on the pier, went to Dick's Drive In for some burgers, went to the Seattle Library but only for twenty minutes because that's how long we had free parking (ten floors in twenty minutes was a pretty good time...) and then we went to Gasworks Park on Lake Union where you can supposedly see the "Sleepless in Seattle" house. But...even after watching the movie that night, we're not sure which one it is. Bummer. We also went to Freemont that day to visit the Freemont troll. Apparently some people in the town sculpted this troll under an overpass a few years ago. It's pretty great.
The Freemont troll.
At Pike's Place with a fish guy.
The gum wall! Loved it.
At the pier, aka, "Seattle waterfront".
I took about a million pictures of the library (which I absolutely loved) but none of them really do it justice so I'm not going to put any here. Just know that I love it, it is amazing, and everyone should go. Ok, so Saturday. We went back to Seattle and went to the Seattle Center. Not before going to the hugest and greatest REI I have ever experienced however. Oh man. That was amazing. We literally had to hike, complete with waterfall, from the parking garage to the store. So great. So the Seattle Center basically encompasses everything around the Space Needle. We went to the top of the Space Needle and the view turned out way better than we expected so that was nice. We took the monorail to the mall and then back to the Seattle Center, went to The Old Spaghetti Factory for dinner and then went to the Bodies Exhibition. That was really neat. Apparently it was way smaller than the one in Salt Lake was but I really liked it. Neat stuff.
At REI. And loving it.
Me and the Space Needle.
Seattle from the Space Needle.
This picture kills me. They have these signs advertising a building that is half the EMP (Experience Music Project) and half SFM (Science Fiction Museum). So I am the nerd and Megan is the rocker. It's classic. And true.
Sunday we visited Snowqualmie Falls and went to church and on Monday we hung out on the Kirkland Waterfront in the beautiful, sunny, weather. Those Seattleists sure do get excited when the sun comes out. And for good reason. It was beautiful and probably 60 degrees.
Us and the falls.
Sunny Seattle! A miracle!
Even though it's a little painful to admit to the millions of people I know from Seattle that have been bragging about their city for the last four years, I absolutely loved it. I'd go back in a heartbeat. Coming back to Provo, winter and school...not so fun. But that's what makes the trips worth it, right? So thanks for a great time Seattle (and Megan!). I hope to see you both again real soon.
