Last weekend, I made my first ever trip to Seattle to celebrate the 4th of July with my good friend Jon. I flew up late on Thursday night and Jon picked me up at the airport. We headed to his house and settled in for the night after a brief attempt to stop the zombie apocalypse
In the morning, we got up and headed down to the nearby Madison Beach on the shore of Lake Washington. After a brief stroll around the area and some breakfast quiche, we headed back to Jon's to meet up with some other friends of his.
Madison Beach
From there we headed to downtown Seattle, where we first checked out the public library, then headed to the famous public market where people throw fish, and sell flowers at low-low prices.
Public Market
Fish throwers
Flowers
After that, we walked along the waterfront, and back to the car. We then drove to Kerry Park which has a spectacular overlook of downtown.
From Kerry Park
Wider view
From there, we grabbed another friend, this time a girl, and piled back into the car for more fun. After a few failed lunch options (surprising how many places were closed this weekend) we ended up at a pretty good Thai place. We ate, then checked out CDs at Easy Street records. Not sure when was the last time I was in a music store, but I managed to pick up a 99 cent Chris Brown CD that was in good shape.
From there we headed to Seattle Center, home of the Space Needle and some other stuff. Notably, the Experience Music Project aka EMP aka Rock n' Roll museum. There we got to record our own music video, and jam with real instruments in the Sound Lab. Connected to the EMP is a Science Fiction museum that had a special muppets exhibit going on. Three of us grabbed a muppet and did a brief rendition of Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem's classic "Can You Picture That?"
Odd Man Out
Can You Picture That?
Behind the Scenes
After leaving the museum, we wandered down to a big public fountain there and also saw Green Day's tour buses, as they were playing at Key Arena that night.
Seattle Center Fountain
Green Day Tour Bus
For dinner, we headed to a Moroccan restaurant called Marrakesh where we had a 4 or 5 course meal that was tasty and interesting.
Jon feeling the vibe at Marrakesh
After dinner we headed out to west Seattle to check out Alki beach, and the view of downtown from across a bit of the Puget Sound.
We managed to find this mini-Statue of Liberty at Alki Beach
Sunset
Checking out downtown at night
To cap off the night, Jon and I cruised over to Fremont to see the Fremont troll that lives under the bridge. It also happened to be same night as an attempt to break the record for largest zombie gathering (who keeps these records?), and we happened to run across a couple drunk girls dressed as zombies who agreed to take our photo.
Taken by our zombie photographer
My take on the troll
Up next: 4th of July in Seattle
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