The Seattle Underground Tour
The second day of our staycation we'd planned on doing the Seattle Underground Tour. We arrived around two, having taken the light rail into the city, only to discover that the first tour with any openings was the 4pm. Drat.
Chess Game So we wandered the city. First stop, Utilikilts, where I surveyed the assortment and settled on a charcoal Mocker, 38x23, but I didn't have enough cash on me at the time to pick it up. Some other day, then. We walked past the glassblower's place and finally wound up back at the bus tunnel. We hopped the train to Westlake, which is one of the city's major centers, sat and ate lunch, mocked a woman trying to be Seattle's answer to Snooki, stopped at See's candies to buy truffles and chocolate, and watched a chess game. The weather was beautiful, and we had a pretty good time running around. The brace around my ankle is doing pretty well.
We did the underground tour finally. It consists of being led through three ruined basements under the original commercial district of Seattle, while the tour guide tells you about the wild and wooly origins of our young city. And a wooly tale it is, too, with people stealing each other's bars, women, and sheep. Lots of mean jokes about the city to our south, Tacoma. Miscellaneous ghost stories. And how the founder of our city was a madam who donated the founding foundation that funds our school system-- yet there isn't a school in the city with her name on it. Wonder why?
One thing that caught my eye was a bar. The tour guide told us that the bar wasn't part of the original tour, but had been left here by a film crew doing a shoot of Kolchak the Nightstalker. I was a longtime Kolchak fan and thought that was the coolest thing I'd seen yet.
We took the train home. I spotted five of those new Rapid-Ride buses in the Metro refit lot (we call them "bus barns," although I'm not sure why) we're supposed to be getting in 2013; I'd kinda like them now, thank you. We got home late and ate tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches. Definitely something that hit the spot.
Chess Game So we wandered the city. First stop, Utilikilts, where I surveyed the assortment and settled on a charcoal Mocker, 38x23, but I didn't have enough cash on me at the time to pick it up. Some other day, then. We walked past the glassblower's place and finally wound up back at the bus tunnel. We hopped the train to Westlake, which is one of the city's major centers, sat and ate lunch, mocked a woman trying to be Seattle's answer to Snooki, stopped at See's candies to buy truffles and chocolate, and watched a chess game. The weather was beautiful, and we had a pretty good time running around. The brace around my ankle is doing pretty well.
We did the underground tour finally. It consists of being led through three ruined basements under the original commercial district of Seattle, while the tour guide tells you about the wild and wooly origins of our young city. And a wooly tale it is, too, with people stealing each other's bars, women, and sheep. Lots of mean jokes about the city to our south, Tacoma. Miscellaneous ghost stories. And how the founder of our city was a madam who donated the founding foundation that funds our school system-- yet there isn't a school in the city with her name on it. Wonder why?
One thing that caught my eye was a bar. The tour guide told us that the bar wasn't part of the original tour, but had been left here by a film crew doing a shoot of Kolchak the Nightstalker. I was a longtime Kolchak fan and thought that was the coolest thing I'd seen yet.
We took the train home. I spotted five of those new Rapid-Ride buses in the Metro refit lot (we call them "bus barns," although I'm not sure why) we're supposed to be getting in 2013; I'd kinda like them now, thank you. We got home late and ate tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches. Definitely something that hit the spot.