Got up at 5:00 this morning in order to find parking downtown in Seattle. Floyce wanted to go to the Public Market and we had heard that parking would be scarce if you did not get there early. Parked in a public lot where they had a machine that allowed you to use a credit card to buy the sticker to place in the front window of the van. Pretty automated those Washingtonians. Went to the market(the open air type)where all the vendors were setting up their stands for the day’s business. At the Pike Fish Market we got to see them throw the fish.
We walked through the entire market; there must have been 200 vendors all the way from fish to baked goods to flowers. It was very large but similar to the Soulard Market in St. Louis on South Br
oadway.There were musicians including the piano player who was playing on the street corner.
I watched a while and figured he was making at least $60 an hour from the money placed in his bowl plus sales of CDs. After we left the market I wanted to go up in the Space Needle
which I wasn’t brave enough to do yesterday. So I “manned-up” and off we went. After I got to the top it was breath-taking.
We are off now to Portland, OR for tomorrow.
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