Driving into Seattle, we throw the radio on and happen across 89.9. Two grunge songs in a row, then Radiohead's 'Jigsaw Falling into Place'. Then after a radio tag caricaturing a Frenchmen drinking coffee, the announcer states 'Well its been about 5 minutes, lets play some more tool'. This is our first impression of Seattle. Shortly after, our second impression is that, apparently, we weren't even listening to the good radio station. There's good music everywhere.
We go to Pikes Place market which is a luscious feast for our senses. Bouquets of fresh cut flowers; juicy fruits i've never even heard of before, like a mango kumquat and blackberry balsamic; fish flying through the air. We ate our fill and b-lined for tourist stop number 2: the Space Needle. After this rough morning of sightseeing it was decided that we had earned ourselves a drink. And for that we went to Shorty's-a cheap dive filled with pinball machines and delicious hot dogs. Lucky guess on our part as we went there again with Devansky thatnight sushi.
Afternoon drinking leads to afternoon shopping, and afternoon shopping leads to afternoon rambling. We wandered to a park with a massive fountain shooting cannons of water all around throngs of kids. The fountain sat at the bottom of a massive concrete bowl, it was brushed steel with water pouring off of it. At random intervals different water canons would shoot and spray 20, 30,or sometimes 50 feet in the air.
Immediately the cellies and wallets are out of our pockets, and we're running down thinking we're going to play just a little and get just a little wet. Within moments of crossing the threshold we are pelted by massive water cannons, leaving any inhibitions of age and semblance of dry behind. Within moments, we're racing kids around the dome,shooting streams of water with imaginary guns, and seeing how close we can get without getting doused.Even Evan, our personal paparazzi paid penance to this god of water and had to genuinely book it away from a quick water cannon switch up.
The day continued its magic into evening, outstanding sushi, getting drunk on sake and PBR, but our delirium from the fountain would have continued throughout the evening no matter what we were doing. Links to Evan's Picassa will be up soon.
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