Music
Dido - cause it’s rainy
Madonna - To continue chick singers
Love’s Labors Lost - feeling the need for a musical
School House Rock - want bop
Boston Pops America - feelin’ patriotic
The countryside gave way to full on desert, until we crossed back over the Cascades (a set of mountains that we crossed just a few times), then back to lush forest and rain. Lots of rain. And a few government convoys.
Not
far from Seattle, we stopped in the town of Roslyn, where they filmed Northern
Exposure. We wandered a bit. Looked at Ruth Ann’s shop. Looked at the Brick.
Felt scenic, then moved on.
Ah,
Seattle, bustling city of drive through coffee. We hit the city around
11:30 and took a walk around Pioneer Square. There was a memorial to Seattle
firemen. It was covered in flowers and for some reason there was a small
balloon dinosaur.
After
our walk, we went on the Underground Tour. Gossip history at its best.
Hmmm…how to explain. Once upon a time, Seattle had a tremendous plumbing problem. Basically, they didn’t have any. Also, the place was built on saw dust landfill. Think pot holes, 8 ft wide. Think fire hazard. Seattle burned down. No worries, no one died. However, the good city father’s decided to fix their problems by raising the level of the streets to a nice angle (all the better to lay pipes under). Up 10 ft, 20 ft, 30 ft, 40 ft. In the mean time, the good store owners had rebuilt to the regular height. Course now they were 10, 20, 30, 40 ft underground. So, they roofed it up and built an underground. Very funny tour. Very cool.
After that we walked, saw Pike’s Market, saw a Victorian dress made from PVC, went up the Space Needle then headed out of town into lovely rush hour traffic.
