Getting Lost In Seattle [and where did i put my coffee?]: Thursday and Friday

Thursday, i met up with Katie and Poe at the ferry dock where we were going to take the water taxi across Elliot Bay to West Seattle and walk along Alki Beach. West Seattle is directly across Elliot Bay from Downtown Seattle, making it a really great place to go for a really great view of Downtown. Alki Beach is this long strip of beach that wraps around the peninsula of West Seattle, and you can walk, or bike, or skateboard, or rollerblade, or roller skate along the beach between the water and the street. It's really pretty. There is grass and trees and some little stairways down the sea wall, when the tide is high you can walk right into the water. But i don't advise that you do because it is really cold.

On my way to the ferry dock, there was a guy trimming this ivy. It was floating down towards the street i was on. It looked like giant green snowflakes

A foot bridge, from (probably around) first street to the ferry dock, has this great art piece on it that shows a box growing into a forest or a forest being put into a box (depending on the direction you walk down the bridge of course)

These are just a few of the whole thing. It was about 20 images all together, maybe more

Love the little bicyclists

But the whales were my favorite

Double decker freeway

Cars lining up for the ferry

Here it comes!

Taking a picture of my reflection

Loading time from the water taxi dock

On the water taxi, a smaller, passengers only, version of the ferry that also doesn't go as far

The view leaving the docks and heading towards West Seattle

The cargo ships and loading docks to the south

Poe, in the sun, yawning

It was just perfect out

And so0o many jellies!

The beach, Elliot Bay, and Downtown Seattle

Some wildberry bushes along the shore

A small dock, and you can see how to sea wall wraps around and the rocks follow to break up the waves whenever there are any

A large tree on Alki Beach, which was looking very inviting and sandy

Some of the stores along Alki Beach

Poe, being patient as we eat lunch

So, after the water taxi, Katie and i walked along Alki beach for a long time with Poe, just talking, and laughing, till we were hungry, so we got lunch, and then headed back to Downtown. Once back in the city, we got a donut at Top Pot, so i could use their bathroom, then we met with Nick at a bus stop, and bused up to Capitol Hill to this great ramen place where met up with Kaite's friend Scott and Chris. Chris actually interns with Nick at Amazon, on the same floor of the same building and they hadn't met before, so that was funny. I ended up being allergic to my ramen and had a sunburnt nose from the day out in the sun at Alki, so i looked like a red nosed, red lipped clown for the rest of the night. After Ramen we headed over to this great little bar called The Stumbling Monk where we had some beers and played the card game Apples to Apples until Nick had to head home to go to sleep.

it got colder and cloudy

A ferry out in the distance

Back on the water taxi

Looking North at Puget Sound

It was so0o pretty!

Poe, admiring the view

Back to downtown

A polar bear!

At The Stumbling Monk, a little bar on Capitol Hill, blurry Katie and Scott

The bathroom was great

After we finished our beers at The StumblingMonk, we had planned on going to see Kaite's friend's band, Horace Pickett*, play at a venue called Lofi, so we headed down to watch the show. We ended up being late by an hour or so but the band hadn't even started yet so it worked out great. The band was really fun, danceable music, and mostly just reminded me of DEVO. There were maybe 10 other people there, the venue was tiny, and the band was great. We danced for a good amount of time till it got too late. We left the Lofi and it was drizzling, which felt so good because i was so sweaty! We walked up to where Scott parked his car and got some Dick's (which is a fast food chain that has been said to be the equivalent of In n' Out, though In 'n Out is better, but In n' Out isn't that good either) because we were all a little hungry and also it just made sense to drunkenly get Dick's late at night. After that Katie picked up a car2go and drove me home, only, when we hangout, we can talk for hours, so we ended up just driving around Seattle till 2 am. She brought me past Gas Works Park, and showed me the Fremont Troll, and drove me over some of the cool bridges in the area before dropping me off at the hotel. It was probably one of the best and funnest night i have had on my whole trip here in Seattle.

At the LoFi watching Katie's friend's band, Horace Pickett play. They were pretty good! I danced a Lot

And we left the venue to get rained on

It was more of a drizzle though

Fans Ice

Dick's ! the In n' Out of Seattle!

And this guy playing some really great bass flute (?) to the drunks eating at Dick's at 1 AM

Scott looking not amused, Chris looking Very amused, Katie not looking

I got to see the troll. At night, he seems a lot more alive

The next day Katie, poe and i met for lunch at Madison Park Beach, which sits on the west side of Washington Lake and the East side of Capitol Hill. We had a really yummy, fresh lunch from Essential Bakery. After eating, we headed over to Gas Works Park which is in Fremont, North of Downtown, just above Union Lake. Gas Works Park is great because it's got this big hill right on Union Lake, giving it this wonderful view of Downtown Seattle. I took so many pictures and couldn't decide on the best ones so i just posted most of them. After that we went back to Capitol Hill and got ice cream at this place that just makes the best ice cream, ever. It's called Molly Moon's, and they use such great ingredients and have such rich flavor, i want it all the time. I skipped going to the gym because ice cream sounded like more fun, so i ended up hanging out with Katie and Poe and Katie's boyfriend Matt and we all got dinner together at Rancho Bravo, this cheap little mexican food joint that used to be a KFC. It's really good.