WA - Thanksgiving in Seattle by Gordon

Seattle, Washington

- Gordon

Wings Over Washington
Ferris Wheel

Picture took at Space Needle

fly to Seattle

Seattle bird view
at night

    Today I would like to tell you how my family and I have a typical birthday and a thanksgiving break! San Francisco was the beginning of our journey. We went to the airport and took a plane to Seattle. It took about two hours till we finally got to our destination, Seattle.

Ferris Wheel



Miners Landing



Lovely nacho dinner

    The beautiful night lights attracted us but when we looked around, we saw the most attractive thing, the Ferris Wheel. The Ferris Wheel was called the Wings Over Washington. It was covered with flashy colors like blue, green, purple, or even red. It was also very high! Think about how much it lights up the sky! It can be seen from islands far away. At that time it was 10:00 and it was time for bed. Instead of bed we went to a place called Miners Landing. Many amazing sculptures and better was that so many restaurants over there had seafood. We walked around till we reached the Washington State Ferry Building. There we had a lovely nacho dinner. We saw a deck with people fishing with buckets. Can you guess what was in the buckets? So many small squids to see! Now we went back to our hotel by a shuttle. The shuttle man told us that Seattle was built on top of another city. The old Seattle is located at the Pioneer Square. Our hotel has a nice view of the Space Needle. Finally we went to sleep.

The Pioneer Square



The Pioneer Square
an underground tour will take
you to old Seattle

  

Fishing for squid

people line up to fish for squid

The Eagle
painted steel at
Olympic Sculpture Park



bay view from Olympic Sculpture Park

The Eagle

A giant face statue

A fountain, a boy with his mom

     The next day we went to the Olympic Sculpture Park. Many amazing things on display fit into the environment.  Many paintings at there had many clouds because Seattle commonly rains The Eagle was a giant sculpture. It was red steel lines swirled together. Look, a giant face made out of marble stands at the exit nice and tall. The fountains had a bronze boy with his mom in there.

Harbor view, walk from Olympic Sculpture Park towards
Pike Place Market

At seaside of
Pike Place Market

Pike Place Market, a market built along the hill

The first Starbucks opened here at Pike Place Market

Golden pig at Pike Place Market
Close to throwing fish corner

Romansco



Jam tasting

Beautiful cabbage flower
bouquet, real flowers!

     The Pike Place Market was an amazing place selling seafood, cheese, flowers, jam, and many more. Samples included  many flowers and also pepper jams. The very first Starbucks was there just like new. It was opened since the 1800s! Venders who sold fish were special. They are special because they attracted people with many acts. They threw the fish to each other if people buy. It is a famous activity called The Flying Fish.

Pike Place Market

Flying Fish Performance

Beecher's cheese

Beecher's cheese making



Famous Beecher's mac & cheese
my favorite food

Real cabbage flowers

dry flowers

Fish at Pike Place Market



Seafood at Pike Place Market

Bubble Gum Wall at Pike Place Market

Bubble Gum Wall

Bubble Gum Wall

     We walked towards the Ghost Alley. It is not scary at all! It is the home to the famous Gum Wall. The Ghost Alley got its name from the scary posters. The gum wall was started because it was a theater where you were not allowed to chew gum. People would take out their gum and stick it to the wall.

Space Needle

The lovely ocean view from Space Needle

Telescope Observatory

Find our home on the map

We are the 58,696,733 visitor

Space Needle

Space Needle souvenirs

     Now representing Seattle's famous landmark, The Space Needle. It was created by a businessman, Eddie Carlson, while eating a doughnut in a restaurant as a desert. He got this weird idea and drew a doughnut with two legs. He signed his name, then wrote two words that started the building. The words were "Space Needle".  Space Needle was cool inside and outside. The elevator at Space Needle was fast because when we looked outside, I felt like I was lifted up without any force. I felt like I was across the space! That is how fast the elevator was. People looked like ants. It was a bird eye view. Outside we stepped when the wind was strong. The telescopes slowly spun. A few selfies were taken by us. The digits of how many people have visited in years are in the millions. We also passed by a museum nearby called EMP, which now changed its name to MoPop.

Space Needle Elevator going down

Chihuly Garden and Glass
from far



Chihuly Garden and Glass

MoPop museum

Ferry to Bainbridge Island

Ferry ride

Ferry station
Bainbridge Island

      The very next day, we went to visit Bainbridge Island by Washington State Ferry. The ferry came every 30 minutes. It was way slower then I imagined. When I stepped on the deck, the wind was so strong. I felt like if I hadn't held on to the rail, I would have fell. When we got there, I found out that the ferry can carry cars. We walked around the town center of the island, but then realized that it was an island with early sleeping people. Lots of the shops and restaurants were closed. It is a quite and nice beautiful island. The ferry took us back to our hotel to rest and got ready for another wonderful night walk.



Bainbridge Island street



Bainbridge Island church

Washington State Ferry to Bainbridge

Return to Seattle downtown from Bainbridge

beautiful night view

Seattle harbor view
from ferry building

Seattle harbor view from ferry building

Seattle harbor view from ferry building

Ferry ride to
Bremerton Island
view from ferry

Ferry ride to
Bremerton Island
view from ferry

Bremerton Island

Bremerton Island

Our Ferry and Bremerton Island

Ready to get
on the ferry

On the ferry

Cars loaded on the ferry

Cars waiting to be loaded on the ferry

The history of cut nails in America

Miners Landing statue

        We visited Miners Landing again and saw the history of the Klondike Gold Rush. It all started with the newspaper. In 1897, the news of gold at the Klondike River in Alaska had reached many ears. Many people migrated to the river. They normally across the ocean through Seattle. The Alaskan winter weather was bad. Only about 30,00 to 40,000 out of 100,000 people actually made it. Some died of hunger, and some gave up dirty with no gold. Others made a choice to buy gold, then sell it for a higher price. Soon, a ship came back from Alaska in 1897 with lots of fresh gold. The news had even spread to Canada! Town of Seattle started to grow. It all ended when the newspaper began to tell about a better mine where it was much safer.



Space Needle view from Olympic Sculpture Park

 

     Now you know all about my trip but not the full. Check our trip to Canada and which city. The Amtrak took us and left at 7:00 am. We arrived at 11:45 am. Have fun at reading my next adventure, Canada.

USA to Canada

train ride

USA to Canada

train ride