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Seattle!

I LOVE Seattle!!

My work sent me there just before Thanksgiving for a Water Quality Conference. I almost crashed on the way into the city because the skyline was so beautiful at night. The rain made me homesick for Oregon, I walked around in it for hours and hours. It was very very hard to come home.

The conference was kind of blah. So I have lots of pictures of the other places I went. =) Thanks, South Jordan!



Pike's Place Market was awesome. I could have sat there all day watching people. If only the pig out front had a cushioned seat on top.



I saw the World Famous Pike's Place Fish Market, with the World Famous fish mongers who love their job. I even bought one of their books, they threw it around to each other like it was a fat salmon and signed it for me. It was awesome!....the book is actually pretty good too.




My hotel was only a few blocks from the market, so it was basically walking distance to every where. I saw all kinds of neat little tourist things and even some not so well known tourist things, like the "Gum Wall".



It is this wall that is in an alley beneath the market by a couple of clubs that is about 50 feet long and is completely covered in gum. Sooo much gum in some places you can't see the wall. Apparently the city even cleans it off once in a while but people just keep putting their gum on it.

Some other places I wondered to were the aquarium, the art museum (where an artist had cars suspended from the ceiling and lit up with a million lights), and a water treatment plant (secret business).

I did attend some of the conference too. =) There were a few good presentations, but mainly I learned I'm not a super fan of French Canadian Female Doctorate students. They were super mean to me and wouldn't speak in English. Although I did meet some really great people. Like Laure, from France who is living in Denmark working on her doctorate degree, and Mehdi who is from Iran but is living in Canada and working on a masters degree. The pictures are from a social at the aquarium but turned out terrible because my battery was dying.




Our group even won the Young Water Professional "Scavenger Hunt". We walked about 10 miles to find everything but the trophy was really worth it.



I was the only maintenance worker in the group, so I won extra points for knowing what parts the trophy was made out of. =P

That was basically my trip. Wandering around Seattle. I could have stayed for weeks. I saved the best part for last. My hotel was kind of fancy, and in the room there was a fully stocked basket of very expensive snacks. I couldn't help but take the most expensive thing, which was $8.00.



Delicious Gummy Bears! So worth it. I've refilled the jar twice since I've been home....mmmmmmmm.

Comments

Ellie said…
Sounds like you had a ton of fun!!! I'm glad you blogged about it...WE loved having you over the kids can't wait to see you agian.
Kellie said…
How fun...I wish my work would send me on a trip!! No chance of it though, I'm afraid! Glad to see you took advantage of the overpriced room basket items! :) Welcome back to blogging, keep it up! :)

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