Monday Mach 9th, 2015 We woke up and had no time to waste, we headed over to Pike Place before it got super busy. We got there and we started walking around all of the stalls and looking at the fish, flowers, and just awesome randomness there was. A few blocks away there was this coffee shop called Monorail Espresso I really wanted to try because they had a latte that tasted like creme brûlée. It was super good but it didn’t really taste like it. Walking back to Pike Place we come across the Seattle Seahawks team store and I bought some things from there.

When we got back to Pike Place we asked this guy in an orange vest (I think he was an ambassador) where the gum wall was and he was and he was really enthusiastic and a cool guy. So being in Seattle you have to do a mandatory gum wall picture. It’s this alley in Pike Place with gum just all over the walls, super cool. Another thing I wanted to try was Ginger Beer, it wasn’t that good. We got clam chowder (that’s seriously my favorite food) we actually waited in line for about half an hour but it was some of the best clam chowder i’ve had in my life, sooo good. Then we headed over the the “first Starbucks in existence”, Fun fact: The original Starbucks actually burnt down so it’s all a lie. The hot water wasn’t working so only cold drinks, then they ran out of iced coffee, so then only frappes. Kinda a bummer. We headed back to the market and I got these cool canvas prints to put on my wall and then we left.

We went over to the Space Needle when the sun was setting and it was one of the more beautiful things i’ve seen in my life. I highly recommend it. After that we went back to the hotel and went to bad.

Tuesday March 10th, 2015 We woke up, had breakfast at the hotel and then headed down to the pier to go on a harbor cruise. On the cruise you could see the entire Seattle skyline in all of its beauty. The cruise tour guy said a lot of cool facts but I remember none of them, but they were cool. After the cruise we went over to the aquarium, it would have been a lot cooler if I was 8 but it was a little boring, except they had seals and sea otters so that was pretty cool. Outside the aquarium on one of the piers there was a ferris wheel and we rode that but it was really lame, if you go to Seattle I highly advise against that.

We headed back over to the Space Needle, but we went next door to it to the Chiluli Gardens. It’s pretty much tons of colored blown glass, which was neat. There were things that looked like flowers, plants, and just random squiggly things. My mom thought it was super cool but it was just ehhh to me. It was too asrtsy.

After the garden we went over to the EMP (Experimental Music Project) Museum but they were closing so we couldn’t go in. My mom had a surprise for me and we walked to the Space Needle and then she told me that we were going to have dinner there. Let me tell you something, eating dinner in the Space Needle was one of the coolest things i’ve done. The floor of the restaurant rotated so you would actually get to see the entire city while you ate dinner. The food was great and it was a super fun night. There were these women that were sitting behind us that were talking extremely loud, possibly drunk, and they were talking about someone named Jim and how he was going through some stuff, to this day I still wonder how things turned out for Jim.

Wednesday March 11th, 2015 We were supposed to be In Portland Oregon staring our drive to California today but we decided to spend that extra day in Seattle. We packed our things into our car, checked out of the hotel, and went to the EMP museum. I’m really glad we stopped here because they had all of these things from Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Macklemore, and even the Lombardi trophy that that Seahawks won. They had this super cool sculpture that was just guitars and I highly recommend going here.

We had a long way to drive so we stared on our journey. We drove for a few hours and we were coming up on Portland, I told my mom to keep driving so we could get as far as we could that day. Looking back on that it was stupid. I wish that we would’ve stopped there. Anyways, we decide to stop and spend the night in this place called Grants Pass in Oregon. We stayed at the Best Western and the room that we got smelt like piss and it was bad.

Random Fun fact: You can’t pump your own gas in Oregon.