The past few days have been a blur as my friends and I have
toured around Seattle. We drove up from Eugene on Wednesday morning, and have
been going non-stop since.
We toured CenturyLink Field, home of the Super Bowl champion
Seattle Seahawks, on Wednesday afternoon. Then we saw the Rutgers University
football team beat Washington State University at the stadium on Thursday.
Steve and I toured Pike’s Place Public Market. It was pretty
much as pictured. It’s kind of like a very nice Berlin Mart in there, but I
noticed that they lack pretzels. It was surprising that not one pretzel place
existed in there. We saw the first Starbucks, the first Nordstroms, and watched
the fish market guys throw around some of their fresh catch.
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The Seattle Center area was pretty neat. Home to the Seattle
Space Needle, and just a monorail ride from the center of the shopping district,
was initially created for the 1962 World’s Fair, which featured many
technological inventions we use regularly today. Just like Pike’s Place, we
visited the area twice. The first time, we went to the top of the Space Needle
and out onto the observation deck to see a 360 degree view of the city. Today,
we went back to the area and had a quick bite in the Seattle Armory and walked
around the grounds of the Key Arena as they were setting up for Bumbershoot,
and three day outdoor concert that starts tomorrow. 
Tonight we went to the Safeco Field for a Mariners game
against the Washington (DC) Nationals. Seattle lost, but after the game we were
treated to fireworks. Seeing these fireworks, which were set to the music of
Seattle over the past few decades, was a fitting way to usher in my last
weekend of the summer. Tomorrow it’s back to Oregon University and eventually
Portland.