Seattle! Seattle!

Finals are done. DONE.

Seattle is amazing. Or, was amazing, I guess.

Unfortunately, it is over and in the wise and wondrous words of Soul II Soul, it's now back to life, back to reality.

Blech. I want to go back. Forget all this practical, real life crap. Just let me return to the land of infinite coffee flowing and rain and sea and ships and good air and good water and a general sort of awesomeness that you do not encounter in California.

This is where I think one typically allows a histrionic sigh to escape from the throat. So:

SSSSSIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Anyway...here's just some of the highlights in pictorial form because I am too full of woe at having to leave to actually compose a coherent prose narrative of the trip:


Ahh, yes...Nordstrom...one of the great bastions of American consumerism. I almost took a picture of a $900 pair of vinyl purple high heels, but then I figured it is probably mockery enough for the person who pays that just to encase their feet in such monstrosities...



Space Needle view, day time:

Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum


Quincy Jones' trumpet!


Hand-written Kurt Cobain lyrics. Pretty much the coolest thing ever.

Jimi!




My hero. A purveyor of light to the minds of mankind:

Beep-boop-beep-de-booooooop (that's may the Force be with you, in robot)!


!!!!!!!

Yoda again, because he IS just that badass.


I'm pretty sure this sign implies that men are robots. Which is not so far from the truth...


Space Needle, night view:

An original design for the Space Needle:



Hee! Talk about holiday spirit...

I was majorly bummed because this is called "Hammering Man," but the arm with the hammer was taken for repairs.

Some kind of sporting venues where sporty-type things occur:




The first ever Starbucks. And the conception of what some consider to be the decline of American society. Or American coffee, in any case. Also, Seattle supposedly has 490 Starbucks. Fun fact.


The original Starbucks logo. The guy telling us about it described her as "showing quite a bit more tail" than the current green logo.











Hippo butt!




Aw....kitty kitty kitty!

Alas. Departure. Agh.


In short, trip was amazing, I want to go back, and it hurts my soul a little bit that winter quarter starts in just about two weeks. I think I need about five more weeks just to recover from the fall.

But as always, we march on.

Farewell, WA and vacations in general.

Until we meet again.