Tour of Seattle
Long day today at Downtown Seattle.
We visited the Pike Place Market, the oldest operating market in all of America, where you can buy everything from fresh fish to seattle shot glass souvenirs (got one for the collection of course). They also had massive crabs for sale, about as big as a football, and giant king prawns which probably cost ALOT. Most striking was the way the fishmongers sing out aloud together and then throw fish across the shop to eachother, quite entertaining. I also learnt the meaning of Beef Jerky, which is basically dried, salted, peppered strips of beef. You buy it fresh or in packets at the supermarket (as we later found out) and you eat it just like you’re eating a chewing gum. Yumm, beef flavoured gum J I’m in heaven.
We then walked through the shopping streets and malls… and funnily enough you don’t find those good ol’ American prices anymore. Everything has gone up in price, from t-shirts to nike shoes.
After about 4 hours of walking, Mike got hungry. Which was to be expected since he didn’t want donuts again for breakfast and just had 3 glasses of orange juice. So we stopped by this awesome brazilian restaurant. This is how it works: you pay $15 and you get to take as many trips as you want to the salad bar (some very tasty stuff I’ve never seen before), and on your table you have this red/green coupon. When you leave it face up (green), it means “please go ahead and fill my plate with fresh meat”. So this guy comes round every 2 minutes with some different meat on a spit, and he just carves off some and dumps it in your plate… AWESOME! Really juicy tender meat cooked to perfection, worth every buck.
Visiting Seattle is pointless if you don’t go up the Seattle Space Needle, a 600 foot tower with a revolving restaurant up top and an observation deck overlooking all of the city. The view from up there is more spectacular than beautiful, as you can see how far the city stretches out, all the parks and highways, the towering skyscrapers, the monorail, and the lakes joining up to the sea. I could even see the Key Arena where I hope to watch a basketball game tomorrow.
We visited the Pike Place Market, the oldest operating market in all of America, where you can buy everything from fresh fish to seattle shot glass souvenirs (got one for the collection of course). They also had massive crabs for sale, about as big as a football, and giant king prawns which probably cost ALOT. Most striking was the way the fishmongers sing out aloud together and then throw fish across the shop to eachother, quite entertaining. I also learnt the meaning of Beef Jerky, which is basically dried, salted, peppered strips of beef. You buy it fresh or in packets at the supermarket (as we later found out) and you eat it just like you’re eating a chewing gum. Yumm, beef flavoured gum J I’m in heaven.
We then walked through the shopping streets and malls… and funnily enough you don’t find those good ol’ American prices anymore. Everything has gone up in price, from t-shirts to nike shoes.
After about 4 hours of walking, Mike got hungry. Which was to be expected since he didn’t want donuts again for breakfast and just had 3 glasses of orange juice. So we stopped by this awesome brazilian restaurant. This is how it works: you pay $15 and you get to take as many trips as you want to the salad bar (some very tasty stuff I’ve never seen before), and on your table you have this red/green coupon. When you leave it face up (green), it means “please go ahead and fill my plate with fresh meat”. So this guy comes round every 2 minutes with some different meat on a spit, and he just carves off some and dumps it in your plate… AWESOME! Really juicy tender meat cooked to perfection, worth every buck.
Visiting Seattle is pointless if you don’t go up the Seattle Space Needle, a 600 foot tower with a revolving restaurant up top and an observation deck overlooking all of the city. The view from up there is more spectacular than beautiful, as you can see how far the city stretches out, all the parks and highways, the towering skyscrapers, the monorail, and the lakes joining up to the sea. I could even see the Key Arena where I hope to watch a basketball game tomorrow.
posted by [mike.bc] at 5:07 pm
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