Day 16 May 5th Seattle

Approaching the waterfront

Having arrived late last evening,

the bustling Farmers Market

we slept in a little and did not breakfast in the hotel until 0900.  The day was dry, bright, clear and fairly warm.  As we breakfasted we discussed the activities for the day.  We decided to seek advice from the information desk and decided initially to visit the

fresh fish

Farmer's Market on the waterfront which has a very

fresh fruit & veg

good reputation and then to go on the monorail to the Seattle Center where the space needle is.  By this time I had also completed most of yesterday's blog.  We headed with the aid of a map towards the waterfront and managed to

fresh flowers

find the market.  It lived up to expectations with all sorts of fresh food and craft products

the monorail

being on offer.  We spent sometime browsing the stalls.  Christine thought the flower stalls were better than the Amsterdam flower market we went to last September.  The whole market also rivalled the Granville Island market we visited in Vancouver in

Space Needle

2014.  It became time to move on and we found our way with some help to the monorail train station.

We bought tickets and were soon at the Seattle Center.  We initially went to

from Space Needle

an area where there were food and drink shops, we purchased some Starbucks and had a sit down coffee break.  Our next plan was to go up the Space Needle and we were soon being whizzed up to the viewing platform at about

hazy but Rockies in the background

700 feet.  There was some maintenance work going on but we were able to get views/pictures from all round.  We wandered around

looking down on the monorail

the rest of the area and found a memorial garden which included a chestnut tree planted from the seeds of the tree which Ann Frank could see from

memorial garden

her hiding place in Amsterdam.  We also found a fountain area where lots of families were having fun and there was quite a good rock band giving a

our hotel

concert in one corner.  We stayed here for some time and then decided to return to the hotel, we caught the monorail and the walked the remaining few yards.
 

We were back in time to make a cup of tea, finish yesterday's blog and have a little rest before thinking about dinner.  We decided to visit the fish restaurant which is part of the hotel and have enjoyed a nice meal including scallops which we hope came from the local market.