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Promised Pictures Part I

This trip took up a lot of space on our camera. It's a process to narrow down the interesting shots, so I'm dividing the trip into seperate blog posts. Part I, below, is pictures of Seattle, and our gracious hostess for the first two days of our trip.

Seattle was beautiful. Thanks to jetlag, we got up at the crack of dawn Friday morning in time to go into work with aformentioned gracious hostess, (whose work is really quite the cool place, with an ideal location!) and visited all the sites before they opened.


On a tight budget, we didn't actually go INTO any of the museums, but had a lot of fun regardless.




Can an economist fit through the eye of a needle? ----------------------->>

Let's see...

<<---------------- We think so.



We also found the original Starbucks and "discovered" the original Starbucks logo. I am ever so thankful my sis sent me a Caribou card (NOT Starbucks) for my birthday, because after seeing this logo (ugly naked mermaid with two fins, bare breasts, and an odd pose), I'm not sure I could swallow any more Starbucks for a while. Ick. Glad they changed it. The original is NOT always better...

Thankfully there are other coffee shops in town. (Duh! It's SEATTLE!) So we enjoyed a nice cup a' joe elsewhere.

We also enjoyed the interesting shapes of buildings:


And found the most perfect spot in the city. A crumpet shop, that makes fresh, British-style crumpets, and will sell you "all you can drink" tea for under two bucks! We went here twice. We'd like to start our own branch here in town, just so we can eat at it, but aren't sure that'll happen any time soon. We'd first have to figure out how to make crumpets.

To conclude today's blog, an inspiring quote which Steve found on the top of a door frame in Seattle, and which he found to be true throughout the remainder of our trip:

"Man has not yet contrived anything by which so much happiness is produced as a good restaurant." -Samuel Johnson