Downtown Seattle
We finally managed to wake up and get moving today, everyone is completely worn out after yesterday, I bet Lance is feeling it too. We head into the local Pikes Place market which is a huge local attraction. We really werent thinking when we decided to do this on Saturday when it seems like everyone else is doing it too. The markets are packed with most people seemingly just looking. There is a huge array of produce, flowers, fish and every thing else you can thing for sale here. The fish market is definitely the highlight and the guys working the store put on a really good show throwing fish around to be wrapped as people order something.
We had to sample the local salmon on Lances recommendation and definitely enjoyed that when we had lunch on the waterfront overlooking Puget Sound and watching the commuter ferries going back and forward. I have a real thing for crab and while eating lunch we figured we really should buy some of the Alaskan crab legs for dinner, so back to the fish market we go. Andy figured 4 would be enough for us as the boys werent really keen. What we didnt count on was how heavy these things were and at almost a pound each the resulting bill was quite a surprise. You can rest assured though that we had the most yummiest dinner ever, even if I did have to eat almost 2 whole legs!
After buying the crab and getting it well wrapped in ice we went and checked out the Space Needle. Now this isnt as tall as the Sky Tower in Auckland which I am very pleased about but it sure did afford a brilliant view of the city and gave us an overview of what we looked at yesterday with Lance. It also made us appreciate how far we actually came. Unfortunately we couldnt see Mt Rainier from the Space Needle due to all the smoke from forest fires.
