Bekah's Blog: Seattle Day Three

Since our hotel internet was being shady last night I suppose I have two days worth of blogging to do this evening. Yesterday was awesome. We started off our second day with some coffee from Seattle's Best which, I dare say is better than Starbucks! *Gasp* Blasphemy, I know! After grabbing our coffee we walked over to the market and realized that we were still too early as a good portion of the vendors were still in setup mode. So we walked around for a bit and ran into The Race for the Cure in Seattle. We watched the walk for quite a while...it was absolutely amazing to see all of the people who were out walking, just an enormous amount of people. A flood. The picture below is one of my favorites from the walk, there is a woman carrying a sign that reads "Cancer Sucks" it's not the best quality, frankly, I'm really tired and don't want to sharpen it. Sorry :)

When we had had enough of the sea of people we headed back to the Pike Place Market and decided to start gathering things for lunch (and look around for some more goodies to bring home). We enjoyed a super yummy picnic of fresh french bread, salami and ham, garlic and dill chevre goat cheese, lychees, kiwi and strawberries (pictured below). It was lovely.

After lunch we headed to the Underground Tour of Seattle. And it was awesome. Got to hear all about how historic Seattle is underground and why it's underground, a definite must-see if you ever visit the city. Then it was off to a pretty rad toy store and then we hopped on the monorail and headed to the Space Needle. And no, we did not go up the Space Needle. Honestly, it seemed a little gimicky and quite frankly neither of us were interested. Jeremy has been up it before and he wasn't too impressed. Besides, there is a building down town that is way higher that you can go up in for a few bucks during the week and I'm looking forward to it. The Space Needle just didn't do anything for me, regardless of its fame. But here's a picture of the space needle anyway.

After The Space Needle it was back to the hotel in search of an Outback Steakhouse we both needed some protein and it was well worth it. Then, being the lame kids that we are, we went to sleep -- hey, it was a lot of walking.

This morning we hit the road at nine and headed to Mt. St. Helen's. I was initially super excited to go, but when I woke up this morning not feeling so well my enthusiasm faded. Luckily, about 1/2 way through the ride there I felt much much better and was able to enjoy the ride and the views.

The ride there was pretty slow, but once we hit the mountains it was gorgeous, very green and we even saw some snow. We continued up the mountain and were on our way to 99 to get on the road up to the observatory. We drove and drove and finally were greeted by a road closed sign. Epic fail. It would have been nice of the website for Mt. St. Helen's to tell us that the effin' road was closed, but hey we made the best out of it. So we took our time down the mountain, stopping where we wanted to explore and snap photos. I've put the best shots of the day down below.

We returned back to Seattle defeated but hungry so we stopped at Applebee's for some dinner. We had intentions of going to see Kung Fu Panda after lunch, but both of us were so tired we chose the nap option. I slept for three hours. He didn't get any sleep because his bed kept shaking. After doing a little bit of research and discussion we realized that every few minutes our beds (and the wall behind them) shake. Sometimes very softly and sometimes pretty vigorously, but it's always rhythmic. This is both settling and unsettling. Settling because I felt it last night and having the back problems that I do I thought my back was freaking out because the shaking is harsh enough to feel but subtle enough to make it feel like it's you and not what you're sitting on. Unsettling because we have no idea why our freakin' room is shaking. It's like our own personal passive earthquake. Now it's just annoying me and killing my balance.

Picture time :)