Seattle has been great, we have both been craving seafood for a month and after 5 seafood meals in 4 days we are again ready for beef. No trip to Seattle is complete without a trip to the Space Needle which was nice (the weather was cooperative) but as you might guess a bit touristy.
Far more impressive to us was the trip to Pike place Market a huge and vibrant farmers market. We were first made aware of this place in a motivational training session Trey put on years ago for his sales team based on the FISH theory. It was awesome to be reminded in a firsthand account how the power of fun in the work place can make any job enjoyable and can help any company be successful. It is certainly no more obvious than in the fish market at Pike Place where the 20 lb full fish are hurled over customers to the packing tables. Employees are hooping and hollering and interaction with the hundreds of customers shuffling to get close enough to buy something. We ate two lbs of salmon and shipped some home, if we had a bigger freezer we would have been a bigger customer. It was just fun to be there. These guys are working in a fish store, on a dock in an open air market and were having the times of their lives, it was obvious and real, so cool to see. Across the street is the first Starbucks store which was also fun to see but the locals tell us it is not hip to do Starbuck’s, instead they opt for one of hundreds of smaller coffee shops. I am shaking with jitters as I type.
We also took a day trip to Mt-Rainier, a really big hill (14,400) that is also the snowiest place in the 48 states (100 ft per year). As I mentioned in the last post we saw this rock 80 miles away but no view is as good as the one from downtown Seattle with the evening sun bouncing off the snow. The road trip through the park was very pretty and easy compared to both Yellowstone and Glacier. Missy spotted a Steller’s Jay really cool looking bird but just awesome in flight.
Kay, per your request, we asked Amy to stay away from the wine so we could get a good shot and she swore she did, enjoy.
Love you all
4 comments:
Wow, again what great views.
I bet you had fun at the fish market!
Also, thank you Jess for the pic of Amy, but didn't I say no wine?
Kay
Wow,what great views, the best being Amy. We are now in Middlebury and leaving tommorrow to avoid IKS swing back east.Love you guys be safe. Dad & Mom
Beautiful pics!
Seattle is one of the places I'd like to visit most!
Amazing!!
Miss you guys!
Krista, Seattle was amazing in fact all of Washington has been impressive. You have good taste.
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