No Sleepless in Seattle for us...

***Miles travelled today: ...today we have travelled by bus, boat, taxi and foot...

***Total Miles:

***States travelled through: Still in Washington State...

(This entry is for Sunday 18th of July... as we were too tired to blog last night!!!)

Okay, so after getting up and out this morning - we were on our 'hop-on-hop-off' bus exploring the city again... what we have discovered about the weather here in Seattle - is that due to Mount Rainier, on the outskirts of Seattle, which due to it's sheer size, it creates weather patterns all of it's own, which affect the weather in Seattle... so on waking up every morning, it has been really grey and muggy, but then as the day progresses this 'burns off' and the sun shines through with lovely blue skies...

...we got off down at the water front, although as it was early on a Sunday morning, not much was open, so after a bit of exploring, we made our way up to the shopping district... where we went in and out of a few shops... I say a few as not much shopping can be done, as our suitcases are all at their maximum weight... (when we dropped the car off on Friday we decided to go into the airport and just weigh our suitcases - to see if we had any weight to play with... well, surprise - surprise - we don't!!!) ... but apparently that doesn't stop one from window shopping!!! So, I just find a nice book store and read, and we set a time to meet up!!!

...anyway it was about mid afternoon, that we found ourselves, once again, at the market... all roads lead to the market... and once in the market you cannot help but take photos!!!

...we stopped off for some lunch - and then went to a little cafe where we watched the world go by, as we wrote postcards!!! It was at the end of the day for the market stall holders and so it was interesting watching them all pack up... their lives must be really hard... getting up in the early hours of the morning... needing to have everything at the market already by the time the stalls open at 06h00 - and then their days run to 5pm - but the packing up took forever... and this happens seven days a week, every day of the year, except Christmas Day!!! Wow!!!

We wanted to watch the sunset over Seattle tonight, so we walked down to the water front... and then decided to take a sunset harbour tour... which was absolutely lovely, getting us back to the waterfront at about 9pm, just as the sun was setting...

We then decided to have our 'roadtrip celebratory' dinner... as it was our last night in Seattle... so we went to a lovely seafood restaurant - specialising in oysters!!! Uugghh!!! But - Jay loves them... so we had an amazing meal... and had decided that we would walk back to the hotel, as we didn't think it was too far... but, we soon decided to catch a taxi... and it was actually nearly three miles!!! Wow!!! had we walked that far during the day to actually get down there???

(We couldn't decide on the photos to upload... so we've put some 'quirky' ones on for the day, including one of the 'gum wall' we referenced yesterday... and then another five for the evening!!!)