Seattle

We were up early AGAIN for our transfer to Seattle. Were we the only people on this deal?? No-one else was picked up from the Luxor for the Seattle flight. Our home for the next two nights was THE CROWN PLAZA HOTEL, SEATTLE. Our room was on the 30th floor (OMG) of the hotel, pictured here and just for the record, I am wearing the Pixen's Jade earrings from China, Cubba's pearl and Drake's Olympics teeshirt.

Seattle was fab. It had very steep streets and it had buildings like this. OMG OMG WHO BUILDS BUILDINGS LIKE THIS!!!!!

It is home of the famous Public Market at PIKE PLACE.

The produce at the market was colourful, plentiful and absolutely huge. 

The flowers were so cheap! They were beautiful - what a shame we couldn't bring some home.

The fish were flying! 

Large salmon flew over people's heads as the fishmongers played to the delighted crowd.

What colour carrot, Sir?

I want brocolli like this!

Seattle is the home of the very first Starbucks store.

After a delicious fish 'n' chip lunch in LOWELL'S in the market on a table overlooking the harbour, we headed back uphill (steep, steep streets) to our hotel and then walked along 1st Avenue past the Century Link Field (home ground of the Seattle Seahawks and the Seattle Sounders) ....

..to the Safeco Field, home ground of the Seattle Mariners. I've never been to a baseball game before and OMG I LOVED IT!!!!!!!

The impressive Seattle skyline behind the field

 Their No. 34 Felix Hernandez had recently just thrown the first PERFECT GAME in the Mariners' history and the 23rd in the history of Major League Baseball as reported here.

  "   “King Felix” has become the first pitcher in Mariners history to throw a perfect game.

Twenty-seven batters up, 27 batters down. No walks. No hits. No errors. No base-runners. Nothing.

Perfect.

Hernandez threw 12 strikeouts in his masterpiece on the mound. In just the 23rd perfect game in Major League Baseball history, Hernandez shut down the Tampa Bay Rays in a 1-0 victory at Safeco Field on Wednesday afternoon.

“I don’t have any words to explain this,” Hernandez said to the crowd, speaking on the field after his final out. “I’ve been working so hard to throw one and today is for you guys.”   "

There was plenty of PERFECT GAME mechandise

The Mariners won the game 5-3. It was fun. Family friendly. Not a security guard or steward or policeman in sight. No-one argued with any decisions. The in-play entertainment was good. It was healthy! After 7 innings we all had to get up and stretch and dance and shake our little booties. WOO!

WE LOVED IT.

How hard is it to score a home run though????? Blimey. 

NEXT DAY...

We took the monorail out to the Olympic Park, we could have walked but the monorail looked fun, and we saw some amazing glass sculptures (YES! CHIHULY!!) - a garden full of glass flowers and a gift shop full of glass "knock-me-overs" - I was too nervous to stay long in there!

then walked back along the seafront sampling a GINORMOUS TOFFEE APPLE

and a demonstration of glass blowing. This shop has provided a lot of glass for the Ballagio hotel in Las Vegas (bin there) (!)

and because we loved it so much and because they were at home again and because I now knew the rules and because I'm now A FAN.... we went to SAFECO FIELD again for our second game. 

and guess what?

Yes - THEY WON AGAIN!

Seattle - absolutely loved it.