Walking around Seattle

 This is the view from the front of our hotel.  

We had a full day in Seattle to explore, so we headed over about 5 blocks to the shopping district and visited the original Nordstroms (which isn't the original store, they closed the original and moved to a bigger space) and then made our way down Pike street to The Pike Public Market.  

 Around all the trees planted along the sidewalk were this beautiful grates with fallen leaves.

 And we arrived at our destination.  I was prepared to be disappointed.  Was the food really that original and fresh, unique and tasty?

 We found a little cheese shop making their signature cheese and serving sandwiches.  

 A little further down the road we found fresh baked bread, vegetables, fruit, treats, and an incredible Italian Deli with a huge cheese counter, deli meat counter, and every kind of sauce, topping, pasta, olive etc. imaginable.  I could have shopped in this store for hours. We shared a yummy panini from this store.

 We then entered the famed Public Market.  It was a mix of fish stands, flowers, crafters, and restaurants.

 What really impressed me were these huge bouquets of flowers for $5 and $10 dollars.  I couldn't believe it.

 View from Pikes Market of the Bay and the Giant Wheel.  We had beautiful 70 degree and sunny weather.

 We bought some Big Ass Grapes, bread, apples, cheese and beef jerky for snacking.

On our way back to our hotel we stopped into a beautiful home store called Watson Kennedy that had all kinds of STUFF.  The Handsome Husband went into a Persian Rug store and it was all I could do to keep him from buying a rug!