Starbucks just opened a new roasting place called "Starbucks Reserve." The line outside is to purchase coffee. We walked in just to look around.
After lunch at an Indian buffet near the Convention Center we headed over to the Underground tour. I remember going on it (and enjoying it) as a kid. Sandi had never been.
I love Seattle for all the reasons that one should love a city. But have mercy, its history is sordid and repulsive. I marvel that a city so steeped in corruption and incompetence from its early days can be so vibrant and healthy today (acknowledging present challenges).
We are walking on what used to be the streets of Seattle and looking at the first floor of a building.
If you walk near First and Stuart you may see stained-glass areas on the sidewalk. This is a very of it from the underground.
From architectural disaster to an architectural work of art, we walked over to the Seattle City Library.
Neither of us had been inside of it so we took our own little tour.
It was kind of a maze how the different floors worked together. As we took the escalator all the way up we were confused how people got to the intermediate floors. It wasn't until we started walking down (imagine driving a car around and around a parking garage to descend to the street level) that we figured out what was going on. There were a ton of computer terminals and a lot of tables/cubbies to study. I'm not sure if I would enjoy using it as a library, but I think I could work on my laptop for a hours there.
As we began our day with Starbucks, so we ended it. From the library we walked 1st Street towards Pike's Place Market.
Sandi wanted to get 'Market Spice' tea and I wanted to see the original SB location.
Mission Accomplished.
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