Kristin's trip to Seattle

Back in September, I was in Seattle for work.  It was my very first trip to Washington state, which was one of the few states that I still have not visited.  I was very excited to check it off my list of states.  On the last day, we got out of work early enough to do some sightseeing.  Here are some pictures.

We took the ferry from Bainbridge Island over to Seattle.  It was an awesome ride with beautiful scenery.  Here is Mt Rainer in the distance

Looking back towards Bainbridge Island

More Mt Rainer - awesome!

 Seattle in the distance

View from the ferry

Seattle skyline

More of Seattle - I think that might be a shipping yard in front with all of the cranes

Two stadiums - one for football, one for baseball?  I can't remember but thought it was funny that they are right next to each other.

Space Needle and part of Pike Place Market

Our first stop as tourists was the Space Needle (what else??)

There were great views from the top

The most downtowny looking part of Seattle

More of the lovely mountain

Looking towards the Puget Sound

Proof that I was actually there!

I think the closer one is the ferry that we took

After the Space Needle we went and grabbed some dinner.  We at at Ivar's, which is apparently a famous seafood place.  It was all lost on me because I don't eat seafood, although my chicken dish was AWESOME.  My travel companions all very much enjoyed their seafood, including coho salmon and dungeness crab, both of which were in season. After dinner we went on a tour of the Seattle underground, which was very cool.  I didn't take any pictures, but it was a fantastic tour. 

Both Washington state and Seattle were amazing and I cannot wait to go back!  Next time I will have to add a day in for more sightseeing so I don't have to compress it all into one night.