Downtown Seattle

Day 55 Thursday 26^th May 2011

We met up with Bob Erion this morning as he delivered back our original V5 registration documents that were needed for customs. He also imparted that, despite interweb reports to the contrary, today was going to be fine weather so we took the opportunity to take the light rail transit from SEATAC airport to downtown Seattle for the really good price of $5 each return.

Seattle, famous for giving us Jimi Hendrix and Starbucks, started us off in Pioneer Square which has a lot of older  buildings and some interesting native Indian carvings. 

Pioneer Square

Nice Boobies

Native Indian Carving

 

 

 

We then headed down to the waterfront and walked along most of its length until we reached the sculpture park at Broad Street and turned uphill towards the Space Needle.

Captain Birdseye

We sat at the foot of the needle and deliberated whether or not to spend $36 for both of us to go 520’ to the observation deck but we talked ourselves out of it by comparing it with the Empire State in New York which at twice the height easily outshone the Needle. We headed south again along 5^th Avenue under the monorail system which above us was carrying the masses who could not be bothered to walk the half mile or so.

Sopace Needle from Waterfront

We reached the Westlake Center, home it seems to the shops. We paid a quick visit to Radio Shack to buy a couple of replacement computer bits and then sat for a while and people watched before going into P F Changs Chinese Bistro for a tasty Chinese meal – our first restaurant meal since Tigard (we had been self catering at the Motel 6 in Fife). The clock was striking 5pm as we left the restaurant so we scooted to the station to avoid the rush hour squeeze.

Back in the hotel we polished off some wine and caught up with emails etc and decided that tomorrow will be booking the bus to Vancouver day, and that’s official.