Weekend trip to Seattle

Okay it's already pretty emberassing that it's been how many weeks now since I've been to Seattle? 3 or even 4? But I say better late than never.

So one day at work Seala told me that she's going to Seattle to visti her cousin's family the next weekend and that I could come with her. I had to work on Friday night so we figured out that I can take the train on Saturday morning and Seala would pic me up at the station in Seattle! So considering me cross the border with a one-way ticket might be a problem Seala got all the information ready for me like where we're gonna stay and all that stuff and Graham wrote me a note that I'm still under his employmemt and gonna be back for work on Wednesday and I called the border services to figure out what I might need so I was all ready and prepared =)

I worked till midnight and was in bed by 1am so I was pretty tired when the alarm clock went off at 5:45 but also a lot excited!!! Everything went well with getting my ticket and getting on the bus and everything (it was a bus cause the train is only going twice a day at 6 in the morning and some time in the afternoon and I couldn't have get out of bed to catch the 6am train :P). Also suprisingly crossing the border went without any problems, too! It's kind of like on an airport cause you have to get off the bus and go through security and show your passport and other information to the border officer and they take your fingerprints and a picture (made me feel like I'm on a secret mission lol those crazy Americans). I was smiling like a real dope when I sat back in the bus and we continued driving. I went on reading Ellen DeGeneres' second book (if you haven't red it do it! It's hilarious. Found it in the library by accident :P) and the time went past really quickly and next thing I saw was the Space Needle (imagine that dump smile back on my face :P) I couldn't quite believe it was all real.

Seala picked me up at the station and after a quick washroom stop and map consultation we tried to find a parking spot downtown at Pike Place Market. There was lots of treffic and we had a pretty hard time understanding the weird placed signs we parked at one of those between two buildings parking lots and spend a fortune to stay for 2 hours (at this point we didn't care anymore :P). So Seala showed me around the famous Pike Place Market and we went into the first Starbucks ever. There is this one seafood stand where they through the fish over the counter when a customer buys one. The "flying" fish.

 

We walked along the piers (we wanted to spend every single minute of those two hours we paid for parking lol) and I saw some ferry boats ( all I could think of was "I gotta thing for ferry boats" and Addie with her cozy grey knitted cardigan on the ferry :P). 

Oh and btw like you can see on the pictures the weather was awesome and didn't live up to it's name :D

After downtown Seala took me to her favorite park which is gasworks park. You have a really nice view from there and you can see those little houses where they shoot "Sleepless in Seattle"!!!

The rest of the day we spent doing some shopping, having donuts and a quick look at another park at the huge Lake Washington. It was Halloween Saturday so when we got home to Seala's cousin we got the kids ready and went out trick or treating around the block. My first real trick or treating since in Germany it's just not the real deal. Kinda amazing how some people decorate there houses! And they don't just carve faces into pumpkins. No, some of them look like real artwork!!!

We started the next day with french toast. I've never had french toast before and considering there won't be lots of times that Seala and me would have breakfast together she decided to make french toast for us. All I can say: yuuuuuuuuuuuummmy!!!

First part of the day I accompanied Seala doing some of her shopping. I wasn't quite as amazed as  she was cause I'm not really used to the prices here in Canada or all the stuff they have here compared to Germany so I couldn't really see that big of a difference other than that it's cheaper :P Second half of the day we went to the downtown library with Seala's cousin and the kids! Millan gave us a tour through the whole library and we looked at those huge old books that have newspaper articles from over hundred years ago. Pretty amazing! The library is awesome! It has modern architecture and the building itsself is fascinating. And they have this electronic system there that sorts all the books that are given back. It's the only one like this in the whole world or something like that!

After the library we went to another park where they have lots of modern art pieces and I could get some good shots at the Space Needle.

In the evening after I little left over dinner we went to Northgate Mall and I got to nice pants =) and I've been to Macy's :D When we got home we had some really yummy veggie corn dogs! I wish they had this stuff over here.

On Monday we didn't do a lot we packed our stuff and had breakfast and left at about 11 so we stoped at Northgate Mall again and went to Target (I thought I would like it more from what I heard lol but to me it was kinda just like the american Zeller and I'm not at all a fan of Zeller stores :P) and then we hit the road back to Vancouver :D

I had an AWESOME weekend and i really enjoyed everything!!! I'm greatful a lot that Seala took me with her and that her cousin did let me stay over with them for the weekend!

I have some more pics in my photobucket album so feel free to take a look!

xoxo

Anna

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