Where to Next?: Seattle

Space Needle

Weather continues to be chilly before noon, then the

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fog/cloud burns off and it’s warm-ish. The air has a very fall-like chill to it. It’s pretty rare, that home is warmer than where we are when we’re on vacation.

Once we were sufficiently full from a room service breakfast and we felt the skys would clear soon, we headed to the Space Needle area, about 2K from our

Chihuly

hotel. We really aren’t observation deck people so we didn’t go up, but wanted to see it and get a souvenir Space Needle for our Christmas tree.

The Chihuly Glass Garden is right next to the Space Needle. This is a smallish museum and garden filled with huge glass sculptures. Very cool. I hadn’t heard of artist

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Dale Chihuly, but I think we’ve seen his work in Las Vegas. We sat for a bit of a glass blowing demo. We sat at the gallery’s bar for a refreshment before continuing on to the Olympic Sculpture Park.

The Olympic Sculpture Park is a stretch of park

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along the water with…sculptures. Nice place for a wander.

Next was a bit of shopping. I considered a couple of sweatshirts to combat the morning chill, but just when I think I need a warm layer the sun appears-also I didn’t love anything I tried on. Chris bought a shirt and a hat.

Chihuly ceiling

Then somehow it was happy hour. We had a glass of wine, calamari and chowder. This whole Seattle happy hour thing is fine. but not as great at our guide made it out to be earlier in the week. Food is usually a significant discount, but drinks are usually a dollar off…fine, but not amazing.

After some chill time at the hotel, we visited the Starbucks’ Reserve. This is a big Starbucks, that also

Chihuly boat

serves alcohol. I tried an olive oil, oat milk latte. I had heard about Starbucks doing olive oil with coffee and wanted to try. It was very good, I’d have again. It was very creamy, and slightly sweet. We paid $22 USD for 2 coffees…not cheap, but nothing here is.

Outdoor glass + Space Needle

The Starbucks was in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood which is an actual neighborhood filled with actual people who actually live here, beyond tourists. This is only the second time since we’ve been in Seattle that we feel were weren’t in tourist-ville, the first was today to and from the Space

Sculpture park and Space Needle

Needle.

We find Capitol Hill Cider and try a flight of 3, 3oz ciders, my 3 are called “No Way Brosé” which I could not resist. I am a cider lover and I’ve never seen a longer cider menu in my life…