So Seattle. I fell in love. Now I have a huge decision. I loved the city, the people, the weather, and everything about it. However, Newark still has my family& friends close by and NYC is right there. Plus, the Jersey shore is much better than any other beach anywhere. Now I guess it really comes down to who accepts me and which school gives me more money. I think my top rankings have been rearranged. Seattle jumped to #3 and knocked Seton Hall down to #4. So....my trip.
Friday we arrived around 11:30 to the hotel downtown. Mom & I checked-in and then walked across the street to a place called Reza's. It was just a little fast-food pizza place but i
t was tasty. I met the owner Reza and he told me a bit about Seattle and was impressed that I even had a chance to get into Seattle University. After lunch, it was time to split ways. Mom got a cab to the lab she had to go visit for work. I got a cab and took it to SU. I say it so casually but sadly I was petrified of it. It was my first time in a cab alone. It was also the first time I had ever been alone in a city I wasn't familiar with. In Tucson I go out all over the place alone all the time, but I also know where I was going. I was such a dork. Either way, so I spent about an hour wandering around the campus (in my cute jacket!). I had decided to walk back to the hotel (in part because I was afraid of
having to call a cab company and figuring all of that out). So I started to walk and up hill. I was walking and walking and enjoying the neighborhoods. I was reversing the walking directions from the hotel to the law school. Well, somehow (probably due to the idiot in me) I got confused. Instead of walking toward downtown (and all the big buildings, you think I would have noticed) I was just wandering through neighborhoods. Well after a while I was pretty sure I had been walking for a bit and wasn't recognizing anything from the cab ride...it didn't look remotely like downtown. So I get out my trusty little map from the hotel and find out that I have successfully walked off the map. Given it wasn't very big but I had a slight moment of panic of what was happening. Trying not to look like a lost tourist (since I was getting the distinct feeling I wasn't fitting in in that neighborhood judging by looks I was getting), I decided it would be best to walk back to campus. So I trudged my way around more and eventually found a corner that was on the map. From there I stopped in a little door entry way and found the way back to the hotel. I walked my way back and enjoyed the whole Seattle area. I saw lots of shopping places and fun things I would have loved to stop in. At that point though I just wanted to return to the hotel. I got back to the hotel around 3:30. I had been walking since about 12:30. I was a little chilly and sad my toes were kind of damp in my shoes. I still had a great time.When I got back to the hotel Mom was already there and we sat around relaxing talking about our recent adventures. Mom and I decided to go to the Space Needle that night. Well we got on
the shuttle and accidentally got off at the wrong stop in Westlake Center (the big, downtown shopping district). We wandered around and saw all the shops. They were having a carolling contest that night though so very quickly the area filled up. Since Mom had hurt her knee a few weeks earlier we decided to go back to the hotel. We called the shuttle to pick us up. However, while we were waiting in front of Sephora the police closed down the street. We called the hotel and eventually decided on a new pick-up spot. The poor shuttle driver had to deal with awful traffic and took about 45 minutes to come get us. We get in the van and it turns out we were like 5 blocks from the hotel. Had they told us, we would have happily walked. By the time we got back to the hotel around 7:30 we both were pooped. We had woke up around 4:30 AZ time (3:30 Seattle time) and only slept for about an hour on the plane. We ordered some take-out, ate dinner, and fell asleep.Saturday was very exciting. We started out the morning by heading to the Space Needle. We
were going to take the monorail over but it was closed due to maitenance (in other words, it had crashed the week before). We wandered around by the Space Needle for a while. There was a mini theme park type area near it. It was of course closed due to the coldness and damp weather. Mom asked if I wanted to go up in the Space Needle (forgetting I'm afraid of heights). We had a good laugh over the fact that we both were planning on going up because we thought the other one wanted to. Turns out we decided not to do that adventure. We also wandered around outside the Experience the Musice Project and the Science Fiction Museum. They both looked neat but we were on a schedule and had many other things to do! We walked across to the Duck tour place (one of the tours that takes you around in a bus but also goes into to the water). They weren't leaving until about 1 so we would have had an hour and a half with nothing really to do. So instead we caught a cab and headed over to Pike's Place Market. Mom had a fun time going down a hill. We wandered around in the market and checked out the Sound. From the Market I saw an aquarium! With nothing in particular to do except experience Seattle we decided to do that. It was super neat and something kind of relaxing and not crowded to do. Afterwards we caught another cab (no public transportation with Mom's knee) back to the hotel. We hung out in the bar and once it opened we got a drink before heading back to the airport. Though we were only in Seattle for 2 days (barely) it was something I really enjoyed. Even if I decide not to go there, I hope to go back on vacation when I have some more time. I really would have liked to have spent more time there, but that's for next time.
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