Seattle trip
Seattle was awesome. I am so glad I went. Seriously, that city is amazing. I can see myself living there (if I get into the med school).
We started driving Thursday night and arrived at our hostel on Friday morning around 9am. In typical fashion I slept most of the day, then got up to meet Iris at the public market. We went to this anarchist book store and ate dinner at one of the restaurants there. Then we met up with a friend of Iris's Nick and went bar hopping.
Highlights of that night were: The crazy Indian restaurant that turned into a bar at night, getting really drunk in said Indian bar, buying handcuffs while ridiculously drunk, the mortuary turned bar called The Chapel, stealing $20 from that bar, The Crocodile Cafe and the Seattle White Stripes, and drunkenly arguing with random dude in our hostel's lounge.
Saturday we walked around the public market more, went to the ball park and a brewery, and then went to the Experience Music Project museum. That place was awesome: so many guitars, a room where you could play instruments and an exhibit devoted to Bob Dylan (just to name a few cool things). We also saw the space needle and rode on a rollercoaster. Then we went to the public library. Amazing building. Then we went to the International District for dinner.
We were both exhausted after so we thought we'd just have a quiet evening. We went back to the Crocodile Cafe but the show looked lame so we decided to go to this Hooka bar. There we met this random guy named Chad who hadn't slept in 50 hours. He was super cool and totally funny. He brought a friend of his over, Jessica, and she sat with us and shared our Hooka. Yay for meeting friendly cool people.
Later they asked us if we wanted to go to an all night diner, so we trekked over to this place called the Hurricane and ate food. The crowd there was so funny. Half of the crowd was people from the erotic art show dance, the other half people from the anime convention. We didn't get back to our hostel until late... so much for quiet evening.
Sunday we walked around the market more, and then drove to the erotic art show. I really liked the art. Plus there was some naked lady in a bondage mask playing the cello, which equals awesome in my opinion. Randomly, one of the guys working the coffee bar recognized me from the Hurricane the night before. Cool, but strange.
Then we were off to Nick's for some CD exchanging, then off for home.
Short summary: Seattle = awesome + must revisit
We started driving Thursday night and arrived at our hostel on Friday morning around 9am. In typical fashion I slept most of the day, then got up to meet Iris at the public market. We went to this anarchist book store and ate dinner at one of the restaurants there. Then we met up with a friend of Iris's Nick and went bar hopping.
Highlights of that night were: The crazy Indian restaurant that turned into a bar at night, getting really drunk in said Indian bar, buying handcuffs while ridiculously drunk, the mortuary turned bar called The Chapel, stealing $20 from that bar, The Crocodile Cafe and the Seattle White Stripes, and drunkenly arguing with random dude in our hostel's lounge.
Saturday we walked around the public market more, went to the ball park and a brewery, and then went to the Experience Music Project museum. That place was awesome: so many guitars, a room where you could play instruments and an exhibit devoted to Bob Dylan (just to name a few cool things). We also saw the space needle and rode on a rollercoaster. Then we went to the public library. Amazing building. Then we went to the International District for dinner.
We were both exhausted after so we thought we'd just have a quiet evening. We went back to the Crocodile Cafe but the show looked lame so we decided to go to this Hooka bar. There we met this random guy named Chad who hadn't slept in 50 hours. He was super cool and totally funny. He brought a friend of his over, Jessica, and she sat with us and shared our Hooka. Yay for meeting friendly cool people.
Later they asked us if we wanted to go to an all night diner, so we trekked over to this place called the Hurricane and ate food. The crowd there was so funny. Half of the crowd was people from the erotic art show dance, the other half people from the anime convention. We didn't get back to our hostel until late... so much for quiet evening.
Sunday we walked around the market more, and then drove to the erotic art show. I really liked the art. Plus there was some naked lady in a bondage mask playing the cello, which equals awesome in my opinion. Randomly, one of the guys working the coffee bar recognized me from the Hurricane the night before. Cool, but strange.
Then we were off to Nick's for some CD exchanging, then off for home.
Short summary: Seattle = awesome + must revisit