This morning, after breakfast, Red
studies while Yellow prepares everything for the day. At the end of
the morning, we take the bus to reach downtown Seattle again. We stop
at the Convention Center to finally get a map of Seattle at the
Tourist Info Center. And then, we walk.
We first stop at Olympic Sculpture Park
for lunch, with the Olympic Mountain on the horizon. The view is in
direct competition with some artwork displayed in the park, with the
sound of huge trains passing by. Then, we walk a little bit to reach
Seattle Center, with the famous Space Needle and the EMP Museum,
which architecture reminds us of some other buildings in LA, Chicago
or Bilbao, Spain. On the other side of the street, a whole block is
occupied by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
We then walk up and down a hill,
through Queen Anne Neighborhood. We catch glimpses of Mt. Rainier on
the way to Kerry Park. And there it is: the Seattle skyline with a
stunning Mt. Rainier in the background. Spectacular! And the
similarity to Tokyo with Mt. Fuji is striking.
We walk even more, reaching Fremont and
its recycled Lenin statue from Eastern Europe. Unfortunately, we
don’t find the famous Fremont Troll.
A couple miles further and we find
ourselves at Gas Works Park, an old factory recycled into a park,
with another great view of the Seattle skyline.
We hang out there for a while, before
heading to the University of Washington campus. There we catch Bus 67
– yes, we figured the whole Seattle transportation system out –
to the Northgate Mall. We are going to a mall? Yes. We are going to
eat at the local seafood fast-food: Ivar’s Seafood Bar. We share
some delicious clam chowder along with some cod fish’n chips.
And it’s with a full stomach that we
return back home in the evening, going to bed pretty late after
chatting for a while with Dan & Kathryn.
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