Miranda & Clark off to find the Pacific Northwest!

All I can say about the Pacific Northwest and will continue to say…is how ridiculously gorgeously green and colorful it is out here. Washington state is so pretty. It is bright green landscapes and vibrant color flowers everywhere with the fresh smell of just after the rain. Oh and did I mention that the people here are so freaking nice. No, really, you would think with all the rain they have they would Kurt Kobain depressed, but I guess, rainbows come out a lot here. The rebirth of after the rain is gone with the glowing lush landscape reappearing; really hits home for these peeps and creates such a positive affect.

So the first day we landed in Seattle, it was raining like expected and very grey. But the next day, the sun came out to play, the rain went home and the wind was quite nicely breezy. It was the perfect day to take the city bus into town and explore. The city buses here are super clean with super friendly staff and pretty easy to find your way around. Also, a huge bonus is…that once you get into downtown Seattle, the metro buses (in city buses) are FREE! So you can just hop on and hop off. You wanna walk from Pike Place Market to the Space needle, you don’t have to, you can take the bus. It’s great!

We checked out the market and got some baked salmon sandwiches, had to! Then we just walked everywhere, took the bus when we didn’t feel like walking everywhere, checked out the Space needle, Seattle Center, took the monorail back to center of downtown. Oh yeah, they have a monorail. They rule! And we happened to run into this awesome Salvation Army, where the whole store was 50% off and I managed to get an L.L. Bean Ski jacket for…you’ll never guess, don’t even try…6 bucks. Awesome deal!

Looks like we will be making the trip to Vancouver after all to catch some skiing so the jacket was definitely necessary. Seattle rules…I mean, it really makes a girl rethink the whole NYC thing and just pull a 180 on everyone and go Northwest. But the Big Apple holds my dreams, so I must stay focused. We just keep running into and visiting so many awesome cities in the country, one right after the other and they just get better.

But for now, Seattle will stay in my heart! Gotta rest up and gear up for the slopes in Vancouver, Ay!!!