Sushi – its starting to grow on me

Posted on 2nd December @ 6:23 pm @ Melanies house

Today we (Melanies Dad, Melanie and Me) went and had sushi for lunch with her uncle william. He works at a place called REI – which is basically a HUGE outdoor shop where you can buy everything for hiking / snowing / bike riding etc etc etc. The sushi was pretty good – better then the stuff i had at the gold coast back in Australia. After lunch we dropped Mels uncle back at work and had a look round the shop. We then headed down to the markets on the seattle waterfront. Me and Melanie wenbt there before but it was late and everything had shut up for the day. Today was better – everything was still open and there where lots of people.

I got to see the very first starbucks coffee place (see photos). Its kinda oldish inside. We also visited a cheese making place – it smelt really really good and we got to watch them making it for a bit. We walked around the markets a bit and bought some chocolate from the chocolate factory.

From there we headed up to get some fortune cookies and also stopped by the Bruce Lee exhibition. I only realised when we got there that burce Lee spent a lot of time in Seattle – he had his studio here and stuff and went to the univeristy of washington. The exhibition was great!, i was impressed. I couldnt take any photos inside but i took one of the big sign out the front. All in all a really good day.

Tomorrow we are going to Renton Redmond (where microsoft are) again. One of Mels friends has flown in and is staying there for a little bit so we have to go see her tomorrow. Apparently we are going to one of the Outback Steakhouses for tea tomorrow so that should be interesting since they are supposedly ‘Australian Steakhouses’

Also planning on going to see Augustina on friday. She is having a house warming party tomorrow night but we cant make it cause mel has to see her friend before she heads off to the Tri-Cities – its all good.

So yeah, thats about it. Constant problems with my website dont help matters but ill battle through. The trip so far has been way cool and better then i could ever imagine. Meeting all Melanies family is really neat and they are all really nice people. Still got a month and a bit left which is good. At some stage we are going to LA for a few days to see another of melanies friends so that should be cool. Keeping busy and seeing lots!