We drove back from Vancouver to Seattle the next morning. We got some shots of the border crossing, since we had to wait for a while.
When we got back to Seattle, we did some more sightseeing to get as much value out of our CityPasses as possible. But first, we had to visit a couple of unique landmarks that weren't in downtown Seattle. We found the
Fremont Troll, an 18-foot tall concrete sculpture of a troll crushing a VW beetle. It was created in 1990 and situated under a bridge.
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| The Fremont Troll |
Then we walked not too far from there to the
Fremont Rocket, a Fairchild C-119 tail boom modified to resemble a rocket.
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| The Fremont Rocket |
We then headed over to the
Seattle Aquarium. We touched some sea stars, sea anemones, and sea urchins; saw the feeding of two giant Pacific octopuses (we got photos, but they came out really dark); and saw lots of fish, coral, and other sea creatures, as well as some birds.
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| Sea urchin |
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| Giant clam |
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| Lionfish |
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| I think this is a Caulastrea species, a large polyp stony coral (whatever it is, it's photogenic!) |
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| Sea otter--so cute! |
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| Harbor seals sunning themselves |
We actually walked through
Pike Place Market both times we went into town. We saw lots of flowers, seafood, produce, and other items. We bought a couple of huge, very juicy peaches.
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| My mom would love the huge scallops! |
Just across from the market is
the original Starbucks store. We happened to be there when the line wasn't super long, so we got a couple of drinks there. Alexis was excited about it!
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| The original Starbucks store |
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| Alexis happily holding her drink from the original Starbucks |
Up next: San Francisco.
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