I will say that in comparison to the other major cites we've visited these last three weeks (!), Seattle ranks number 1. Seriously, this place is awesome. I love it here.
Here's Emma with her ever informative captions. I'm going to sit on the couch and digest the huge amount of sushi I just ate. Unfortunately, we couldn't take pictures in the restaurant. There was a conveyor belt wrapped around the tables dispensing the sushi. You would have loved it.
The space needle.
Welcome to Seattle.
We were good tourists and went to the Experience Music Project. We skipped the Hendrix room and spent most of the time in the oral history wing-- you sat at a video screen, put on headphones , and decided whether you wanted to hear Odetta or Mike Watt or Mark Mothersbaugh chat. It was cooler than we thought it was going to be.
Our first meal in Seattle was at Salumi, Armandino Batali's closet of a restaurant. Mario's sister was slicing the salami. We felt right at home.
Assorted cured meats.
In the bathroom, another Batali's work was on display.
Mike's sandwich had figs, goat cheese, and prosciutto.
It was someone's birthday in the kitchen. We all sang. Then someone brought us some ice cream. Sigh.
Keith Hernandez? Someone confirm, please. We know nothing about anything, but thought we recognized the mustache.
The next stop on our movie location tour was the Singles house. Picture Matt Dillon with long hair.
Our Chunky Monkey needed a bath. Mike took him to the elephant. I know that cars are supposed to be girls, but Chunky Monkey has a decidedly male personality.
While Chunky Monkey has getting washed, I was at 8 Limbs Yoga getting my om on. Stephanie sent me to her friend Jenny's class. My ass was whupped, but in such a wonderful way.
This is the bar where the fishermen from Deadliest Catch hang out. Yes, we watch too much television. Do you have a problem with that? We also went to the Elliott Bay Bookstore, okay? Also, I just finished Harry Potter, and it was fantastic. I know some blog readers have a problem with teenaged wizards, but as far as I'm concerned, if there is no room in your heart for a teenaged wizard, then you have some serious, serious problems.
Even though John has been here for a month, the poor thing hadn't seen anything outside the theater. We took him to the Pike Place Market.
We went for the assorted dozen, because we are no dummies.
They had two New Kids on the Block buttons stuck to their sign. As if they needed me to love them any more.
They were still warm.
Legs.
John, taking in the sights.
For lunch, Mike and I went to Dick's. Above, Mike's love for fonts is revived.
They had good packaging.
Our entire meal-- two deluxe burgers, an order of fries, a coke, and a milkshake-- was $9.57.
This color is called 'My Chihuahua Bites.'
Just as we always suspected-- in Seattle, it is always the summer of grunge. I was on the phone with Nina as I took this picture, and she very wisely understood that this should be the title of today's post.Next up, more Seattle.
love
E + M
7 comments:
HELL yeah, those donuts are amazing. You hit two of the places I almost always go when I'm back in Seattle -- the donut place and Dick's. Color me insanely jealous green.
ooh. i wanna see seattle now. i read the blog before i go to work and that says sumthin. keep having fun.
ps. i had both of those nkotb buttons. they were hands down the largest buttons i have ever owned.
conveyor belt sushi is called kaiten sushi (kaiten means "round") and it's where people grab a quick lunch of sushi in Japan. i guess in the West, we tend to make it more of a fancy thing. i wish i could see the inside!
also, as if this blog doesn't make me jealous enough, your visit to the Singles house really just put me at 115% jealous.
Keith Hernandez selling porn is what that looks like, but it must be a Mariner in some kind of Lost two parallel universes playing Hernandez.
Creepy!
b.quain
There's a great great breakfast place in the Pike's Place market, and you have to go upstairs, where you get waitress service. But otherwise, people in Seattle talk about coffee way too much. I wish I had gone to the donut place, though.
Hiya Emma & Mike,
It's been a great trip following your trip, and it was great seeing you having a blast in Cannon Beach and at Powell's (where I got a UK first edition of Ghost Story, now signed). I love Portland. And whilst in Seattle, give my love to Addison Forbes Montgomery, Ob. Gyn. ;)
Please also lemme apologize for barging in unannounced; I was acquainted with your blog in the north of Spain, thanks due to two Good Gurus, named Peter + Susan [Two of my favourite people in the whole world], and have been hiding in the trunk, a stowaway.
If you don't mind, I'd love to keep tagging along: it's a marvelous way to see the pacific northwest coast.
Twin Peaks area, you know.
Best regards from this side of the Ocean, and godspeed!
that poster is keith hernandez and that poster is selling porn
www.imkeithhernandez.com
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