so the weekend before the one that just passed, meaning the 13th/14th jan weekend, saturday was spent at international district with gerri, her neighbour echo (cool name, but she's a taiwanese) and echo's 3 children (who are all adorable.). it was a snowy day again. my neighbour, roommate and i piled into gerri's MPV and we went chinese groceries shopping and our bill totaled to USD110+. haha. divide that 4 ways. it's chinese food withdrawal symptoms lah. i felt like buying everything. then we went to a chinese restaurant and had more chinese food! =) =) so thankful for a car because we would not have to carry all our groceries back home. i miss having a carrrr.
sunday will be described in pictures. and monday, martin luther king day was a holiday, but we spent it at home catching up with work. sadddd.
ok. sunday. we went to pike place! finally. i love the fresh fruits and vegetables and fish (except the smell). it's such a happy delirious feeling seeing all the colors of fruits and vegetables gleaming under the lights of the stores. yes and we saw this guy throwing fish to the other guy. oh i love the little stalls at the flea market too. selling all kinds of interesting stuff and trinkets.
ok pictures tell stories better.
everyone takes the same picture of the same sign "public market", jiejie too. but when i saw this other sign down the road, i took a different one! the beautiful blue sky and the sun is out once again. =)
welcome to pike place! i didn't take many pictures of the stalls because i was too mesmerized. =) will definitely go back for organic flavored pasta and fresh fruits like cherries and strawberries.
the view from the public market place. more pictures of the views to come.
er jie this is for you! i know you love to say "wait until the cows come home", especially when we were in tokyo. haha. so i took this picture for you. so cute. the whole shop sells all things cow.
the original starbucks. but we were informed by a local that technically, this location is not the original location. the original original starbucks was located somewhere near, but they moved to this present one. and he added we weren't supposed to know that. oh well. glad to be at the birth place of my favorite coffee joint. they were throwing coffee cups (instead of fish) inside. and it was crowded!
cheers with a hazelnut latte against the backdrop of half of downtown seattle. =)
the view from the waterfront promenade. the vast water body you see here is not even the ocean yet. it's elliot bay. but it sure looks like a big sea to my singaporean eyes. yes i haven't seen the great lakes of US yet. the road at the foreground is one of the interstate freeways. probably I5, which runs from vancouver to san diego (?).
the sun! nowadays we're back to gloomy days. and don't be fooled by the bright sun here. that day was coldddd. probably just a degree or 2 above zero.
the stadiums. baseball and football. sigh the seattle teams are doing badly. just that sunday morning was a big semi-final football game against dunno who and everyone was SO hyped up about it, even my prof (who is one of the top researchers at a top research institute). and he came into class the tuesday after the game and told us "excuse me if i can't form my sentences properly or if i look depressed and glassy-eyed, i still could not get over what happened on sunday and i have been supporting them since they started out in the 1970s". haha. so funny. today i just read that the baseball team lost too. oh well.
4 very satisfied and high-on-caffeine girls.
these tall structures were all around, and they look tribal. but i have no idea what significance they carry. but quite nice against the urban backdrop and the water.
here. a better picture of the waterfront promenade and downtown seattle.
the snow is still around.
welcome to downtown seattle! here comes a story of nice seattle people. my friend was so blur she misread the bus guide and we were supposed to get on the express version of the bus no. 74 to get us to pike place, but she didn't know so we happily got on the normal version which does not stop anywhere near pike place. so we sat on the bus until it reached the last stop. and oh noooo. we asked the bus driver if we were anywhere near pike place. alas we were quite far away. we looked at each other, still wondering what to do, when the nice bus driver told us to sit down, and that he would give us a ride there as it was on his way back to the terminal. so nice of him right. =) we said like a thousand thank yous and we got our very own ride to pike place. and he let us off even nearer to pike place than we would have been if we took the correct bus.
a quiet day in downtown seattle.
the shopping stretch, which is quite a few streets. i heart shopping.
gap store! its huge! but we didn't go in.
the sun sets. and we still continued shopping. till after dark. before the 4 tired but satisfied girls headed home for dinner. felt too guilty about the $$ spent to eat out. haha.
the results of 4 girls' shopping. i bought a new pair of trainers from adidas's stella mccartney range, which was on sale and it was so nice! bought a starbucks coffee tumbler so i can bring my tea to school without having to spend a bomb everyday at starbucks. and a top and denim skirt from american eagle outfitters, on sale too. slashed like crazy. there are sales everywhere so i resolved to stay away from downtown for the next 3 weeks.here i conclude our very exciting and nice day out. the next entry should follow very soon. toodles.
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