seattle premium outlets: this outlet isn’t even really near seattle, it’s about 30-45 minutes out of town yet they still call it “seattle”. anyways, it’s your normal outlet and surprisingly i bought absolutely nothing from this place.

pioneer square underground tour: this is the “clean” version of the underground tour which glosses over the seedier parts of seattle’s history. it also seems to gloss over its normal history as there are many loose ends that the tours doesn’t seem to want to fill us in on. anyways, we walked around under some of the buildings in pioneer square but it wasn’t really much of an “underground” tour. it’s more like a walking through old buildings tour.

u-district street festival: the u-district street festival, like most other street festivals in north america had lots of tents selling arts & crafts, buskers, street food, and rides. there was also a segway test-“ride” which wasn’t really a test ride because you had to pay for it. being near the university, there were also a lot of petitions including no to smoking in bars and yes to smoking in bars. surprisingly, all the petitioners (and sign holders) for no to smoking were black. they don’t seem like the primary audience for this sort of bill.

supermall: been there done that.

kerry park: this apparently offers one of the best views in seattle. it is a really great view, but there is really only one view. this is like a 10 minute pit stop on the way to…not much else.

seattle center: i had the time to actually spend time here and explore what is actually in seattle center. we happened to show up when they the world rhythm festival so there was a lot of rhythmic beats and dancing. anyways, this place is a lot like harbourfront.

international district: boring, dirty.

also jeb has his take on his blog.

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