Sep 29 - Oct 3, 2001 Last Update: 11/2/01 5:00pm CT
I’m unemployed, so we went to Seattle so I could attend a career fair. Of course, airfare is much cheaper with a Saturday night stay, so we did a little site seeing.
After we arrived, we went to the Pike Place Market. Pike Place Market is loaded with vendors selling fresh fish, fruit, flowers, and a whole bunch of other stuff. This is where Starbuck’s got its start. On TV, you may have seen people throwing fish. This is the place. Lunch was fish & chips at Lowell’s. There are a bunch of places to get snacks too. We also had chocolate and piroshky, although not from the same place.
We then walked up to the monorail and rode to the Seattle Center, home of the Space Needle and the Experience Music Project (that’s the funny looking building that the monorail is passing through. (It wasn’t really that dark in the shot from under the Space Needle, just the way the sun lined up)
Back downtown, we took a walk to the waterfront. Here’s a ferry crossing Puget Sound.
Dinner was at the Panda Palace in Bothell, very good Chinese food and stuffed pandas all over the place. (Teddy bear stuffed pandas, not real stuffed pandas)
One day we drove to Mt. Rainier. We didn’t have too much time, but we managed to do a little light hiking. Here’s a picture of the mountain and a bird that watched us eat our picnic lunch. His eyes didn’t really glow, it was just extremely sunny (who said it rains here?)
Another day we went driving around looking at houses. Not too far from Seattle are the towns of Snoqualmie and North Bend, where many of the exterior shots of the old TV show Twin Peaks were filmed. Here are pictures of Snoqualmie Falls and the Salish Lodge, aka the Great Northern, which appeared in the opening credits of the TV show.
We stayed at the Extended Stay in Bothell. It’s an inexpensive hotel that has a refrigerator, stove and microwave. We ended up buying some food at the local supermarket and making dinner for ourselves or eating leftovers from the Chinese restaurant. One night we went to the Outback Steakhouse, it was within walking distance.
We also drove around Puget Sound to Port Townsend, just to take in the sites and to look at neighborhoods on the other side of the Sound.
The career fair didn’t have too many companies, about 40, which I thought wasn’t too good at the time. Then, a few weeks later, I attended a career fair in Chicago, which had only 10 companies.