Thursday 23rd Feb

Well, it's been a while. How have you been keeping?

I have been on holiday! YAY! Rosy arrived back on Saturday Feb 11th and since then we have been out and about, making the most of Seattle and Washington State. There's way too much to go into detail about, you will be relieved, but I will list the main things and put some photos up. It might take a few days to catch up though.

So, the first day proper, Sunday, we went down to Pike Street Market, a-browsin' and a-moochin'. Miraculously, Rosy brought some sunshine with her!

I don't really know what this was all about, but it's not often you see a man with a massive hotdog on his head talking to a giant bird.

Or a busking quartet singing spirituals on the street.















Or a big old totem pole near the centre of the city.




















In the evening, we went to see the Seattle Sonics play the Denver Nuggets at the Key Arena, just next to the Space Needle. I think the Nuggets thing must be a reference to gold, not chicken as I originally thought. The game was grrreat! Talk about Razzmatazz, they had it in spades! We had the national anthem before the game. We had 9 mascots battering each other at every interval and doing spectacular slam dunks, led by "Squatch", the yeti-like Seattle mascot.














After all that, there was actually a basketball game. Seattle were always struggling to hold on, and managed to level the game right at the death taking it to overtime. But they were pretty well-beaten after that. The Nuggets had a player who was only 5 foot 5 inches! He was at a bit of a disadvantage against the 7 footers, but he sure was speedy.














We made our way home past a moonlit space needle for a very good meal at the Flying Fish restaurant near our hotel.