Adventure in Seattle, in June-uary 2012

Last week I went to Seattle to visit Manny and the office to help out. This was my first time to the West Coast (previous not having gone farther West than Vegas), only my third time flying, and the first time flying by myself. Exciting!!

Seattle was pretty cool.  Herein are the chronicles of my adventure in true photo-blog style. (The full album, public, is on my G+ page.)

But first, I need to point out that I found the location for my future castle in the sky. My friends are all welcome to come visit. =)

I got to my hotel, The Inn at Harbor Steps, around 2am.  That was 2am EST, so it was 11pm PST. Having been awake since 7am EST... I was exhausted. The chick who checked me in (as I checked her out -- woo woo!) actually walked me to my hotel room and opened up the door for me! I was both impressed and confused... if Manny hadn't given me the heads up that people in the NW are much friendlier than the East Coast, I would've thought she was coming on to me. ;-)

Then I was impressed again at the greatness of my room:

 

 

Then I crashed. Hard.

 The office was only 2 blocks away, down some side street... hmmm I wonder what its name was...

I had to pass this fancy stair area to get there, and walk down the block:

 

          

When I got to the office, I found the rare treasure!

 

I think I may have drank every bottle during my stay.  <_<   >_>

Then Manny hooked me up with a local liquid:

It was still warm, so I think it may have been recently "harvested"?

I was more interested in the Coffee Machine of Caffeinated Wonders (+3!)

No time to waste, I got hard to work!

While Manny... ummm... where's Manny? That's her beer...  is she hiding under the desk trying to avoid the Postini fallout?!  Poor Manny...

So after the first full day I decided to walk all around and explore. I love wandering around cities. ^_^
Because Seattle is farther North than DC, the sun sets like 30-45 minutes later than I'm used to. When I took the Ferris Wheel photo [below] it was ~9pm and still very light out, and I was walking around yawning my head off because it felt like midnight my time. Trippy. My brain was thoroughly confused!

I thought I started off walking down 1st Ave, but this coffee house suggested otherwise. It wasn't even open!  WTF Seattle?

Fortunately there was a map shop nearby, so I wouldn't get lost!

Also be warned: people in Seattle have a great sense of direction! Just to park your car you need to know cardinal directions, or have a compass in hand...

Naturally Seattle has whole shops dedicated to selling umbrellas...

Fun fact: all of Seattle gets its light from this one store. That's good because it can be frequently cloudy in Seattle.

But when I went in to ask how much it would cost per lumen, they wouldn't help me. Also, they didn't appear to sell vessels to carry light in to get it home, so idk wtf was up with that... ;-)

I made my way farther North and admired the Space Needle. It's like the Eiffel Tower of Seattle.

 

A few neat shots of the cityscapes:

 

 

 

 

 


I don't know WTF happened here, but I'm very glad they fenced it in and locked it up!

I love street art.

 

Ferris Wheels are cool.

If you can stomach it, these last photos are of the gum wall on Post Alley. This area even smells like bubblegum. It's neat and gross at the same time.

Normal graffiti wall:


And then... gum.  Gum?  GUM!

 

I dare you to use ^that^ as a background wallpaper for your phone or desktop! Bleh.

Hope you enjoyed my tongue-in-cheek style. ;-)
The full album, public, is on my G+ page. There are more photos there, additional shots and misc other Seattle pix.

All photos were taken with my Droid X phone (before I upgraded to the Droid RAZR).