After an early start and a 3 hour journey from Drew's house in his mums Pontiac, we made it to the picturesque city of Seattle. Upon arriving we met up with Drew's girlfriend Torii, she goes to uni in Seattle.
After having a sarnie and a jamba juice for lunch we headed to downtown Seattle to see the sites. As we are tourists we thought the best way to see the city would be via a bus trip, this tour was different tho, it was an amphibious bus meaning we could travel via land and water. We had to wait 4 hours before we could go so we went and had a look around the shops, after a couple of hours we went and hit a bar. The beer sucks in america and there's no cider at all! The wait was over and we finally got to ride on Duck tour, after travelling through the streets of Seattle we hit the harbour of Seattle during which we saw where Sleepless in Seattle was shot. The tour was pretty cheesy with rubbish jokes and music along the way, but it was all good fun.
The next day was wet and cold so we headed to the famous Pike's Market which was all under cover so we didn't get wet. They sold loads fresh local produce like fish, flowers, fruit and veg. The fish market was quality, the guys who worked there kept everyone entertained throwing the fish around and singing at the same time. We visted the 1st ever Starbucks shop, it didn't look that different from any normal starbucks, but it did still have all the orignal signs outside. For lunch we headed to the Pike Street Brewery in the heart of the market, Tim tested the Kilt lifter Scotch style ale, i'm not a fan of ale so i gave it a miss. He said it was very good tho. In the afternoon we went on a tour of Seattle's underground city, which was very interesting with loads of facts about the history of how Seattle was built. They had big problem with the sewage system, lucky enough some english guy by the name of Thomas Crapper helped them out. In the evening Torii cooked us spag bog, which was excellent.
The following day the weather was alot better, so we went up Space Neddle, which is a tower built for the world fair in 1962. We went up to the observation deck at 520ft. The views across Seattle were stunning on such a clear day. For lunch we heading down to the waterfront to Red Robins, its a well known burger resturant. After this we started our way back to Oregon but on the way we stopped at a Flight museum on the edge of Seattle. It had loads of really cool old planes like concorde, air force one and a massive boeing 747. Inside the museum there were sections on WW1 and WW2 planes. It also had a section on the history of space flight. After a few hours we headed back to Oregon, but the weather turned on us very quickly, Drew did a good job to keep the car on the road from what i hear, i was alseep by this point. We made it back fine but very tired, so we called for a pizza, it was mahussive.
Mark