Belltown to Market

After the LittleBit birthday party, Steve, Amanda and I bolted for the Market. It's always an interesting jaunt through Belltown where Amanda once dormed when she was a student at the Seattle Art Institute. I think the building was recently condemned (no fault of Amanda's of course).

I have great memories of hiding out in Seattle's Pike Place Market. It's one of the most diverse hubs you'll find in the Pacific Northwest Region. The smell of king crab legs and fresh cut lavender mix wildly with baked strawberry-rhubarb piroshky ... the guttural tones of fish mongers and seagulls rise in harmony to the ebb and flow of the of local vendors and world travelers. Street musicians, university students, cruise couples ... cobblestones, ornamental iron, stained glass ... organic ginger, beeswax candles, tie-dyed aprons ... gotta have a fresh made doughnut and rice paper candy!

Steve, Amanda and I were able to stop in at the Pike Place Bar & Grill to share a fanfare of steamed Vanila clams, crispy calamari, asiago parmesan spinach dip and baked potato skins. We had to be rolled onto the ferry to get home!