A Weekend in Seattle
May 25th, 2005 by NancyI visited Seattle this past weekend for the first time and absolutely fell in love with it.
It really does deserve the name ‘The Emerald City’–ivy was hanging off everything, and vegetation thrived on every bit of land that hadn’t yet been covered in concrete.
The thing I wasn’t used to seeing was all that green-ness right next to the water. I’ve seen green areas inland, and sandy/rocky areas on the water… but never woods abutting coastline so dramatically. It was amazing.
We dined atop the Space Needle one night–not as pricey as I thought it’d be. (Not as bad as Boston’s Top of the Hub, or Atlanta’s Sun Dial Restaurant, for example–both of which are also fantastically high places to dine.)
Walking through Pike Place Market was a blast, and Pioneer Square had some cute places to shop and eat.
But yes, it did rain a lot. We were there about 80 hours total, and it was raining for at least 50 of those 80 hours, I’d wager.
