Seattle -- 2

Following is a ton of pictures, wrapping up our visit in Seattle.

Snoqualmie Falls. East of Seattle. So pretty!

We had to make a trip to Pike Place Market along the oceanfront in downtown Seattle. It's a place that sells all sorts of things including flowers and oodles of seafood.

 

The very first Starbucks. I'm not a coffee drinker, but had to take a picture of this.

 We headed north of Seattle and found this beautiful beach with so many sailboats in the water.

There's that photographer guy again! I like following him around. :)

This guy was keeping an eye on us...

I had to stick my toes in the Peugeot Sound. It was quite chilly.

We had fun going to the top of the Space Needle. (Except for the 45 minute line we had to wait in.) It was built for the 1962 World's Fair. When it was completed it was the tallest structure west of the Mississippi River. (Just a little trivia for you.)

The Seattle skyline from the top of the Space Needle.

Look who was up there taking pictures! (I think he's cute...)

I have a couple more posts before I wrap up this trip. I know it's long and drawn out. I've enjoyed looking through my pictures and organizing them into posts. It will be fun to be able to look back and remember our wonderful trip.

Seattle -- 1

When our wonderful, relaxing cruise to Alaska was over, we spent a few days seeing the sights in Seattle.

This post is purely for memories/entertainment for us and the kids. One of the things we purposely did was go to the grocery store in Chinatown. Since we lived in Singapore for three years, it held much interest for us. I felt a little silly taking pictures in the grocery store, but it brought back fun memories.

Just a few choices of soy sauce. I remember being amazed at the amount there was to choose from! The American grocery stores seem do pitiful with their two or three brands.

Every time I went into a jewelry store, I was offered either a bottle of water (which I took) or Chrysanthemum Tea. (Yuck.) It always made me laugh. For a time, it was even offered as the free gift for "topping up" your gas tank at the filling station. It sounded just weird enough I never tasted it.

Now that's a bag of rice....

The ice cream choices where sure, um different.... (can you see it says: Green Tea & Red Bean Milky Ice Bar?)

One of the famous dishes in Singapore is Fish Head Curry. (I never had that either. Not a fan of curry or fish heads.) (Especially with those eyes looking at me.) I had a Singaporean friend when we lived in Missouri and she commented once how she could find any fish heads. I told her there was a good reason. (ick)

Prawns anyone? Butter Prawns? Drunken Prawns? Mmmm. I'm hungry!

We found a very good Chinese Restaurant to eat lunch at. We did not order anything off of this page.... (the Twice Cooked Pork Szechuan Style and the Pork with Hot Garlic Sauce sound good.) (And why is there a chicken dish on the list of Pork dishes?!)

We really did have fun reminiscing about food shopping and eating in Singapore