With Kristy at work for the week we intended to do our sight seeing of Seattle in the next few days.
Our hostel, the Green Tortise was in a great location by Pike Place Market in Downtown Seattle. It also had free breakfast daily and dinner 3 nights a week. The only downside was the guy in our room who kept closing the windows and turning on the noisy fan at night.
We spent a fair bit of time at the market, with the famous fish shop where the employees throw the fish and seafood to each other, on both sides of the counter. Christine bought herself a lovely necklace and a few other things. We also got a chance to use skype to catch up with a few family and friends.
Tuesday night the boys were nice enough to let the girls have a quiet movie night. While this was happening the boys headed to a pub in town for a few games of pool and then 'sit and go' poker. All in all the poker was a great success, we played about 5 tables. Early on it wasn't looking so good after Damien went 'all in' on the first hand (with a flush), and got beaten. We bounced back however, Juzzy finishing with a 1st and 3rd and Damien a 1st and 2nd, Go Team Australia!
We returned to see how the girls were, to find them in quite a silly mood. They had finished a bottle of wine and half a bucket of frozen margarita mix we had made earlier in the day!
Wednesday we did a guided Canoe tour of Pugnet Sound, which is one of the many water ways in Seattle. This was led from the hostel, and despite advertising it as a 1-3pm tour we didnt get back until 5.30pm (we were meant to meet Juzzy and Kristy at 4.30, sorry mate!). Apart from the organisation of it all, the actual 2 hours of canoeing was great. Our lovely guide, Lizzy, was a qualified architect, so was able to tell us a lot about the city and buildings we were paddling past. We also saw a seal in the water and the first rain in Seattle for 30 days, lucky us!
After the tour we rushed back to meet Juzzy and Kristy, after all we had an important date, we were taking the girls out for a nice dinner.
Sadly the girls were a combination of rushed and tired and did not enjoy Hooters as much as we had anticipated.
Thursday we thought we would drag Juzzy down to our level. He met us at the hostel and joined in on a hostel led 'dead mans' tour. The tour was quite interesting, and different, not only did we get a guided city tour, but also saw the graves of Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Lee and the house of Kurt Cobain. Our guide, Elicia, was a hippie/punk with pink hair and tattoes everywhere. She was very friendly and was able to answer our stooopid questions.
Dinner tonight was spag bolanaise and the red wine we bought in Walla Walla...mmm...
Friday we continued our musical tour of Seattle, at the Experience Music Project. This is a really interesting and interactive music museum. Their was an Ipod narrative tour of the history of music in Seattle, a big section on Jimi Hendrix, hundreds of old guitars, instruments and albums. The interactive area had all sorts of instruments that you could learn the basics on. The ticket also got us into the Muppet Museum and the Sci Fi Museum, not much time was needed there!
We ate at a Mongolian restaurant in the Uni District, cheap noodles, meat and veggies! After dinner we headed to Juzzy and Kristy's to watch the Seattle Mariners, the local baseball team. They are starting a 3 game series against Arizona, it was a low scoring game with the Mariners winning with a big home run late in the game.
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