Seattle!

So last I left off I was heading to Seattle right? Well it has been fun! Sometimes a little uncomfortable, and a little tiring, but it has been fun. I am going to give you a list of 5 things from this week!

1. I can’t fall asleep in a car unless I am exhausted. I decided to sleep in my car on Monday night (it’s cheap!) and man was that hard! I think maybe I am just too big to sleep in a car, but I tried, and tried, and tried. I couldn’t fall asleep, so I ended up in an all-night diner, until I felt I was sufficiently tired enough to fall asleep in my car. I was, but I only got about 5 hours of sleep before the sun woke me, and those 5 hours weren’t that great. I think that next time I am traveling, I will try and use couchsurfing.com. It’s a website that lets you sleep on people’s couches or in their spare rooms!

2. Try the local places! I try not to order a lot of food from chain restaurants. If I am going to be here I might as well as eat the food from here! I had breakfast at some local diner because it had good reviews on yelp!, tried a local bbq joint, and am having pizza from a local pizza place. (Nothing ever beats Chicago deep dish though!)

3. I went up into the Space Needle! It was pretty cool. I really do enjoy spending time looking at the cityscape and surrounding area, and this allowed you to do just that! While I was up there, I saw a couple get engaged too, so that was exciting! It isn’t as high as I thought it would be, but it is away from most of the other really tall buildings, so you still have a really awesome view!

      4. There is a wall in Seattle that is unlike any other wall I have ever seen before. Probably unlike any wall that you have ever seen before. This wall, it is disgusting. It’s a wall that has gum, yes chewed gum, all over it. Of course I had to add my own gum to this collection!

      5. They actually throw fish here. At the Pikes Place Market, which is a pretty big market that sells way more than just fish, has people that actually through fish back and forth! They usually do it when someone orders so that it can be wrapped up, but sometimes it is just for fun I guess! I got a video, so you can watch it too! Pikes Place was pretty cool because of all the different shops. I haven’t seen a market like this one before. Really anywhere else. Maybe they exist, maybe not! But it had really cool shops, fish throwers, restaurants, and a couple really talented street performers!

So there you have it. 5 things from my couple of days in Seattle!

If you made it this far, congratulations! You get #6!! Wahoooo! So #6 is that if you are staying in or around a city, use the public transportation! It is super easy to use, and I have taken 4 about 40+ minute long bus rides for 6 bucks! Don’t have to pay for parking or anything! Go bus system! 

Day One in Washington

Monday July 20

“Hello Sir, what can I get you?”

“Well, what do you recommend?”

“It really just depends on what you like dude.”

I order a double macchiato because I have no idea what to order, and I feel slightly uncomfortable.  I feel like I should just know what is good. So I ordered the double macchiato to try and sound like I knew what I was doing. I saw him grab a really small cup, and knew I had made a mistake. I just wanted coffee…  What was I thinking?

 So I am sitting in a coffee shop in Wenatchee Washington right now. Trying to figure out what to do with myself for the next week or so, I think I want to go to Seattle. I also don’t want to spend a lot money, so it is going to be interesting. I grab my coffee and take a seat, I need to plan out this next week so that I don’t just end up sleeping in my car and eating McDonalds every day.

So why am I here, in Wenatchee, with no real plan? In part because that’s who I am, I don’t really plan anything. I just kind of wing life, so this is just and extension of that. But why Wenatchee? My friend’s girlfriend lives out here, so I dropped him off at her house, and am going to meet up with him in about a week to continue on traveling down the coast, going to end this trip in San Diego California. We are here to kill some time between two weddings. One just happened in Sioux Falls, SD, the next is in the San Diego area. There are about 2 weeks apart, might as well travel in between right? Right!  So that’s why I am here, alone in Wenatchee. I just left my friend and his girlfriend, and now need to fill about 6 days! Time to head to Seattle!

Before we get to all that though, this macchiato thing doesn’t taste very good. I think I will just take a few sips and leave it. Don’t want to be rude ya know?

So my family just took a trip to the Bahamas over the 4th of July weekend. It was a blast. The trip that was over to soon, and one that could not have been better except if it could have been longer, and if my younger brother could have been along. We took in a few shows, spend a day on the beach, tried some conch fritters, and went snorkeling. I got pretty burned, but it was still a wonderful time! Here is a video of some of the pictures that we took while we were in the water!