Seattle!

 It was a long day yesterday. I woke up early, ran around a bit, and then we left for the airport at 2:15. Our flight left on time and after a fair amount of turbulence landed in Seattle a little early, so the gate wasn’t ready…eventually we got to the gate, took the train to the main terminal, retrieved our bags, and got a cab to the hotel. By then it was after 11:00 Pacific time. We hadn’t had dinner. Tried the bar in the hotel and a bar across the street, chose not to walk three blocks because it was seriously windy, and ended up ordering Thai food, which arrived at midnight. Yawn.

Today we had a lovely breakfast near the Pike Place Market and then wandered around the market before heading toward the Pacific Northwest Ballet. We stopped for lunch at a Japanese restaurant and watched the weather change from windy and cloudy to pouring rain to wintry mix and then to sun. It wasn’t a long lunch, trust me. We took a Lyft to the ballet, which was amazing. I never thought Sleeping Beauty was connected to the archetypes of Pacific Northwest Native mythology. Then again, I’m not Preston Singletary.

After the ballet we started to walk back to the hotel through Seattle Center - museums and fountains and public art.

See the whales?

We found ourselves near the Chihuly Glass and Gardens exhibit center. We had to go in, of course. And then we had to have a drink at the bar. 

See? We really were in Seattle.

From there we went to Le Coin for dinner - oysters and venison for David, French onion soup for me. Yum. Now back at the hotel getting ourselves organized for a very early flight to Honolulu tomorrow!