Washington Part 3 - Seattle Day Two

Our second day in Seattle was beautiful.

We walked a few blocks down from our hotel to Pioneer Square and stumbled upon a local bakery and coffee shop.

I think it took me a good 5 minutes to decide what to order. The pastry options all looked amazing.

In the end I couldn't make up my mind so I ordered two things. The cinnamon roll - I'm almost always a sucker for a cinnamon roll - and a peach almond tart, with a mocha to drink.

Ben had a sausage egg biscuit sandwich and a coffee. That food, plus a newspaper and an interesting atmosphere with local folks coming and going, it was the perfect start to the day.

Then, we walked just a little bit further down the street and came to a vintage pottery shop called Laguna Pottery and it was my heaven on earth. I think it was the highlight of my time in Seattle - call my crazy, but it's true. They shipped these items to me!

Megan, check out the LuRay!

It was wonderful and the owner was friendly and down-to-earth.

Then we were off to Pike Place!

There's a blur in the middle of the photo below...it's a flying fish. :-)

After we took in all of Pike Place - surrounded by Husker fans, seriously there were people wearing red everywhere. Then, we hopped on the monorail to head to City Center

which is where the Space Needle is. Did you know is costs $18 to go to the top? Yep, so we skipped that.

City Center is also where the Experience Music Project is. We didn't pay to go inside but the outside was pretty cool.

There's also an amazing (and huge) fountain there.

See, I told you Husker fans were everywhere. They even left their mark on a parking sign.

Back to Pike Place - this guy was nuts. Harmonica in mouth, spinning the entire time to balance the guitar on top of the harmonica, playing the other guitar and he kept the hoola hoops going the whole time.

Can you see the Nebraska flag hanging off the balcony in the background?

For dinner we met up with Christine Thimm, a friend from Bethel. She's new to Seattle so we came up with some options and finally decided on 88 Keys, a dueling piano bar. It was interesting, but in the end the performers were amazing. They could play and sing any song thrown at them, it was ca-RAY-zy.