See ya, see ya Seattle.....

I bloody well love this city and I'll be sorry to say goodbye to it regardless of the fact it rained the entire time I was here, helps I'm a London type so kind of used to it.  I would have to say, to date, with the cities I have visited on this trip besides NY, this would be the only city I would love to live in.

 

I love the energy and vibe here, the people are friendly but not too friendly and the shops, scenery and the easy access to nature is pretty cool.  This and NY are my must/have to come back to cities.

Today I headed over by bus (which took me ages to find cause it's like underground...how weird is that??) to the University district to go to this thanks Ma for the link.  

I walked around the University of Washington Campus and it was amazing!!! Goldsmiths has nothing on this baby, it's massive, beautiful and so green. I walked through the library and the librarian suggested I should look at their reading room on the 3rd floor before doing the art thing.  Check out these pictures.....see now I realise I'm running out of adjectives for bloody awesome, incredible etc. etc. insert random words of bodaciousness(thanks Keanu) in here.

Then it was on to the Henry Art Gallery, it has three floors and you can choose to pay a suggested donation of $10 on entry.  They do have a really good mixture of stuff with the highlight being the Kiki Smith exhibition which I liked, mostly because it has a dark, morbid element to it.  This being coincidently the same reason I am not an artist now because my art teacher in highschool said my art was too dark and morbid....see Miss Artcriticteacherbecauseyoudidn'tmakeitasanartist, you can be dark and morbid HA!  

This gallery had so many great pieces <---these by Allen Ruppersberg being one of my faves, feel free to supply the answers :) There was even some artwork you could participate in...got to love participation.  The one below you had to write your personal story about food, I thought that 'bacon is my life', might seem to be too weird so I wrote something else instead.....

So got back on the bus to downtown Seattle, where the bus drive recognised me from earlier and due to it being a packed bus I was stood right next to him.  All the while he asked me a million, highly entertaining questions about London. Like 'what's McDonalds like in London?' or 'what's your smallest bank note?' So I got off the bus before my stop to escape the questions.  

After a nice little walk through Belltown, another very cool area of Seattle, with so many groovy shops, this being one of my faves...

I ate the worst Chinese/Japanese dinner I have had to date, and headed back, to the international district.  The picture below is just outside my hostel.

Tomorrow I leave for Portland.....debating whether I'll end up coming back up this way to see more of Seattle...and sorry no smut today, I'll work at it I promise.