A Day of Exploring

This morning we headed to the harbor area and really enjoyed the hike. We cut through the Seattle Sculpture Park which was very interesting. We checked out all the places along the piers (which, of course, weren't open as early as we were there) and then headed to the Pike Place Market area. Later we heard about the original underground Seattle area while we were back on the double-decker bus, so we took the 1-hour walking tour. After a full 12-hours of mostly walking, eating/drinking and just generally enjoying the mid-60's sunshiny day we headed back to the hotel and crashed! Here are some of the day's pictures:

A giant Ampersand sign at the Sculpture Park.

For you "younguns" this is an old-fashioned typewriter eraser that we had to use before correcting typewriters and White-Out were invented. We never went near a piece of paper without one of these little gizmos.

These "eyeballs" are actually benches so you can sit behind the eyes.

We really enjoyed the view of the bay on our morning walk to the harbor.

Mamaw and Jo take a quick breather as we walked up and down the pier area while Ed checked the map to see exactly where we might want to go (next picture).

"I am their leader--guess I'd better figure out where we're going!"

You really can't tell from this picture, but there are almost a ka-billion steps that we had to climb to get to the public market area on Pike Street. It wasn't nearly as bad as climbing our hill or driveway in Capitan, though....I guess because of the lack of elevation which means there is much, much more oxygen to breathe. I discovered I really like oxygen! Wish I had more where I live....

This is Pike's Place Market. We have a personally guided tour through the market later today (Wed.), so better pictures and comments will come then.

This is one of the underground skylights that were built into the top-side sidewalks back in the late 1880's.

This is just an interesting building in the old downtown area that I thought looked like some of the buildings in Paris that were built in a triangular shape where several streets converged.