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April 2001

Seattle and North

David Aaronson
2005-09-25 16:33:25

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We'll start this off with a disclaimer: due to a small camera incident, our pictures of Seattle were somewhat mangled. These three have survived more or less but the resolution has suffered greatly. Anyway, we begin with a picture of some fish on ice in Seattle's Pike Place Market. Our first stop because it was not only in the middle of town, it was a fine place to go when hungry. We were hungry because even 2 airline breakfasts do not adequately suffice to cover 7 hours of flying. Pike Place Market is typically known for the fish markets were employees fling the wares back and forth across the counter. This is really not very interesting although many people spend hours videotaping it. Furthermore, since no one is buying fish (how many tourists do you know who buy fresh whole salmon while travelling?) they eventually start fish-flinging for entertainment purposes only.

Fruit, vegetables and flowers are also common at the market including the seasonal tulips. Other sections have flea-market stalls and more permanent stores. We took the monorail (billed as the world's first) from downtown to Seattle Center, home of the space needle, and the ridiculously shaped building which is home to the Experience Music Project (that picture was sadly lost). At Seattle Center we found that there really wasn't a whole lot to do unless you wanted to pay $11 to go up in the Space Needle. It wasn't a particularly clear day and we didn't want to do this so we decided to roam areas outside of downtown instead.

Our advice is this: Don't pay $11 to go up in the Space Needle (1) unless you really have nothing better to do and $11 to waste. Instead, drive up into the Capitol Hill section of town just east of Downtown and go to Volunteer Park. There you'll find a brick cylindrical structure which is actually a water tower dating from the beginning of the 20th century. You'll find you can climb up ...

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