Seattle- Day 2

Today we stopped by our favorite smoothie place for breakfast again, then headed down to Pikes Place Fish market.

We passed this really cool clothing store that had an amazing display of sewing machines in the windows.  "Hi Granny!"  It would have been an even better tribute to her had I noticed at the time that I was taking the picture that the sign for Nordstrom Rack was being reflected in the window and if I had scooted over a little bit, I could have captured the whole thing.  Oh well.

 

We made it!

At the famous Fish Market

The famous fish mongers throwing fish

Let's see that again...

 

Although the fish are fun (and everywhere) Pikes Place Market has way more than just fish!

These flowers were an amazing deal!  Huge bouquets like this were only $10.00

Cheese :)!!!

Hi Granny!!!

The original Starbucks



This place was awesome!!! We bought our fair share of stuff, and could have stayed there all day, but we had other stuff to do.

There's a place for everyone at Pikes Place.



As we left we passed this place.  What's so special about an alley?  We went to check it out.





Ahh... the famous gum wall!



 

Yumm....



I love this place!!

 

Yeah!  We made it to our destination!  The Aquarium (with a little tribute to last night's ride on the big wheel in the background :)).



The underwater show.



I was amazed at how much I loved watching the octopus.



Maybe I should become one :).



Ooohhhh!!! Felt!!!!!







Pretty scenery in the dome aquarium.



we got to watch the feeding time.



Look!  I'm riding an orca!



Cute baby otters sleeping.



This is for Catherine



We had a little time to kill between the aquarium and our dinner reservations so we headed over to a yummy little shop right next to our hotel.

  

Wow!  Look at all the flavors of popcorn deliciousness!!

We bought just a few flavors :).



After another ride on the monorail, we reached our dinner destination

 

Awesome!

 

The views were amazing!

Looking down on the Experience Music Project from the top of the Space Needle.  It was designed to look like a smashed guitar, but I'm not sure I see it.  It's still a very cool building though.

Chillin' on the observation deck before dinner

The circular part of the Space Needle is a restaurant that rotates 360*.  We timed our dinner reservations so that we'd be sitting (at a window seat) at sunset.

The spinning took a little getting used to, but dinner was amazing and the view was even better.  We both agreed that this was not a bad ending for a Tuesday night.

Bucket list counter:
9- Watch fish mongers throw fish at Pikes Place
10- See the original Starbucks
11- Play at the famous Seattle Aquarium
12- Ride the elevator to the top of the Space Needle and enjoy the view
13- Have dinner at the first rotating restaurant at sunset