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City of Seattle: Urban things to do in any weather.

1. Space Needle. Costs a lot to go up, but it’s nice. There is a restaurant up there too, but I don’t recommend that.
2. Smith Tower. Much cheaper to go up. Arguably a cooler view than from the Space Needle too.
3. Monorail. It’s only goes between the Space Needle and downtown, but it’s fun.
4. Pike Place Market. Seattle’s Pride and Joy, a fully functional public market in the heart of downtown. It’s OLD, and most famous for the ‘flying fish’. The fish vendors toss fish to each other to scare and wow the crowd. They have fresh fruit and veggies, flowers, nick knacks and souvenir’s. Well, you name it actually. There’s a piroshky place, bakery’s, knife shop, nuts, used left-wing book store. All of it little mom and pop shops in perfect Seattle fashion. Except with one notable difference…
5. First Starbucks shop, Located in Pike Place Market! Not terribly interested in itself, but if you’re there anyway it’s cool to check out the original (less sexually inhibited) logo.
6. Ye Olde Curiosity Shop. Located down on the waterfront, mostly just sells souvenirs, but they have certain curiosities on display, like shrunken heads, mummies and a whale penis. Has kind of an old timey charm. You’ll likely want to check out the waterfront anyway!
7. Seattle Underground Tour. Literally a tour of Seattle’s Underground. Like the city beneath downtown, turns out they built the city in a pretty dumb way. Makes fun of Seattle and Tacoma, gives a historical account of the city that is funny. I like this tour, I’ve done it so many times that they last time I went they asked if I wanted a second job as tour guide!
8. Seattle Art Museum (SAM). Locations downtown and on capitol hill. I haven’t been to the one on the hill yet, but I’d like to!
9. Local music scene. The Stranger has show listings, some bands have links to listen to a track or two online.
10. Plays, of all production values. Again, check the Stranger listings.
11. Art shows, especially gallery openings. You guessed it, check the Stranger listings.

Outdoorsy, things in or near Seattle to do when it’s nice.

1. Olympic Sculpture Park. This is actually a Seattle Art Museum location. A few good art installations, but mostly the park is just pretty.
2. Ride the Ducks Tour. Basically you drive around the city then putt around Lake Union. Seems kind of lame to me, but I bet some people thinks it’s a blast. Heck, if you’re really into it I’ll try it.
3. Parasailing. Leaves from downtown. I went in the Bahamas and they tie you to this parachute and drag you behind the boat. You are riding a kite basically! OH That reminds me, I’m adding another bullet below.
4. Go fly a Kite! There is a hill at Gas Works Park, that has a great view of downtown and is known for kite flying. The wind comes racing down the canal and all funnels onto this hill. We could fly kites!
5. Wine Tours. Chateau Ste. Michelle has a good tour. Red Hook Brewery is there too, they have good food but I haven’t toured them yet.
6. Son of a beach! Golden Gardens is a pretty good beach nearby (in Ballard), and Alki Beach Park (in West Seattle), has very nice with a view of downtown.
7. Olympic Peninsula. Take the ferry across the sound to the peninsula (you can drive your car on these giant parking garage boats). Then take 101 around the Olympic peninsula, stopping in on the rain forest.
8. Driving along the Columbia river (hwy 30 I think?) on the way to the ocean. Something I want to do.
9. Multnomah Falls. Nice hike and scenic falls.
10. Snoqualmie Falls, also a pretty waterfall, this one is bigger in spring than fall and was featured in the 80′s TV drama Twin Peaks.
11. Hiking Mt. Rainier, specifically the Sunrise hike, before the sun rises, in perfect darkness, you hike for 2 hours up to a certain peak that faces Rainier. Then the sun slowly rises over your back, illuminating the giant mountain in front of you for the first time, from the top down. I’ve never done it, but it sounds awesome.
12. Hike Dorothy Lake.
13. Mt St. Helens. So this mountain like, exploded and stuff. It’s a pretty drive in. There are still visible downed trees and no one rebuilt nearby, so it’s a lonely wilderness thing with a huge collection of people at one end. Feels like The Restaurant At The End of the Universe. These reviews are getting a little too avant-garde, sorry ’bout that. Mt. St. Helens is actually not that exciting.
14. Take the Ferry to the San Juans, then grab a whale watching tour
15. Also in the San Juans, Kyak tours
16. Visit Vancouver BC or Portland, OR.

My favorite places to eat in Seattle

1. Coffee. Tea. So many great shops to kill time at I’m not even going to try listing them.
2. Taste of India. Everyone loves this place. I try to go here about once a week.
3. Paseos Caribbean Restaurant. Best sandwich anywhere.
4. Delancey. Delicious authentic pizza.
5. De Nunzio’s? Italian Restaurant. Oh No! One of the review’s says this place went out of business. However, the cafe upstairs is still running, has the same delicious food, and a crazy small awkward dining room (I love those) Check out Cafe Bengodi!
6. Ipanema Brazilian Grill. It looks like a vegetarian salad bar, until they come by your table with huge spits of meat and cut off a piece!
7. Yasuko’s Teriyaki. Did you want Teriyaki? Why did I ask that, I know the answer (is yes).
8. The Crab Pot. Imagine a restaurant where you order seafood and they come out and indiscriminately dump a pile of it on your table. Now imagine that pile also tastes good.
9. Ichiro Teriyaki. I think of this as a Korean place actually, they have that and Teriyaki and Sushi. It’s kind of an “Asian Fusion” type of thing I guess. It has terrible reviews. Why is that?
10. Fort St George. Go here for the Japanese curry, and the feeling that you don’t belong. I love this place, which also has bad reviews. Why do people hate things I love?
11. Uwajimaya. An enormous Asian grocery store with an awesome food court.
12. Cafe Flora. Delicious vegetarian food.
13. Bamboo Garden. Vegetarian Chinese food.
14. Krishna Restaurant. Delicious vegetarian brunch. See, the thing about vegetarian restaurants is, they have to be really outstanding or you’ll just go home and cry into your vegan pillows.