As most of you know, our anniversary is on Halloween. We go through a dilemma every year on what to do. Do we stay home and hand out candy to the cute trick or treaters, throw a party or hope that someone else has a shin-dig that we can go to. However, every year, we seem to stay close to home and celebrate our anniversary in a small way.
Since this was a milestone anniversary, we decided to actually go out of town. We rented a very cute, quaint cottage in west Seattle. It was about 350 sq. ft., one bed/bath with a sitting area and full kitchen. The price was great and it was in a quiet neighborhood. The owners didn't have a ton of personality but it was much better than any hotel so I am going to give them a little promotion. http://www.seattlecottage.com/
I hadn't been to Seattle in years so we did all of the tourist things. We had a great dinner at the Melting Pot in Queen Anne on Halloween. That has got to be one of the best places to eat. We spent about 2.5 hours on all 4 courses and enjoyed every minute.
On Saturday, we went to Pike Place Market. It was not what I remembered. We missed all of the fish throwing and had coffee at the very first Starbucks. Hate to say it.... but we both agreed that the coffee closer to home was much better, plus, we didn't have to wait for 20 minutes to get the ole' cup of joe. There was nothing much at the market unless you wanted honey, jewlery or vegetables/seafood. You could get any of these about every 3rd table. We had a good time just people watching and going into all of the quaint shops under the market.
We walked down to the waterfront and walked all the way over to Pioneer Square. I have to say that it a bit scary and am glad that Eric carries a gun. Alot of homeless people hang out there. We did go on the underground tour. Seattle was built many years ago, but contined to be flooded as it was too close to sea level. When they rebuilt it, they raised the streets. We went under ground and ventured through original seattle. There is a lot of history in Seattle which was nice to hear about. After the tour we ventured back to the car and decided we had a long day and were actually going to take advantage of the kitchen we had.
On Sunday, we went to the Museum of Flight on the way out of town. This was pretty amazing. They had everything!! The first plane, WWI/WWII planes, all things NASA, Original boeing shop, plus actual planes that you could tour. I am not a plane buff by any means but it was a pretty amazing place. If you ever have the chance to go, it is worth the price (having a coupon makes it even better) but don't eat there. The cafe is sub-par. Listen to me.....you would think that I am writing a piece for the travel channel.
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