Day 13: Seattle day two

Mercer island is a wealthy inner ring 'burb east of Seattle surrounded by lake Washington. Rachel and  her fiancé didn't have a super large place, but decent with a cool view of the mountains and bellvue downtown. It was super interesting hearing about Rachel's job and bens was well. Rachel works downtown with advertising. Ben is a cop in a rougher suburb south of Seattle.

It was a work day so we were on our own for the day. Post run, we drove into capital hill for some coffee and a doughnut. Not all of us got doughnuts, but I suppose that's alright. I found Andys place (no help with directions or address!) and we set off for the chihuly glass museum at the foot of the space needle. It was a bit steep in price but we sucked it up and went for it anyway. Totally worth it. One of a kind exihibts to wander through. Really cool.

Next up was the sculpture park. There's isn't as cool as ours, just saying, but the view is pretty dang nice over the sound. They have a dead tree that's been decaying the last 7 years I wanted to revisit, but it was closed. Sad. We peaked in the window though, and it didn't look like a whole lot was left. Mainly ferns by now. We skipped the theo chocolate tour after paying 27$ for the glass, but didn't skip the factory store. Each of us probably put down the better part of a bar in samples. Don't worry, we bought stuff too.

Ben lives right in bell town, which is the equivalent of losing park. They live in a 10ish story condo that you could probably throw a rock from and hit the space needle. It also has a roof top patio. The views were absolutely amazing. It was really cool catching up with him. It had been a while and while he was the same old Ben, he has changed a lot as well. We had a drink at bathtub gin and co, very cool hole in the wall prohibition esque place. Dinner was at "list". It's place plates and a little fancier, but Monday's are half off. The total bill with drinks was something like 56$ for the 4 of us.

Another great day in Seattle.