gorgeous day in seattle - think i mentioned that in my mini-post earlier!
woke up late and went for a wander down to pike street market - one of the 'things to do in seattle' and it was lovely - busy with people, gorgeous sunny, fresh day - people are so friendly here - immediately my 'londoness' made me suspicious - i gotta stop doing that!
pootled around the market marvelling at the gorgeous fruit, veg and flowers on show and looking at all the jewellery and other wares... lots of hippyish stuff! bought some nice woodblock printed cards by a local printmaker - people are very creative here! nearly bought a gorgeous necklace too, but quickly took it off when she told me it was 140 bucks!
went for coffee - that's when i blogged - then came back to the hotel to sort out some money stuff... stupid bank! still not sorted which is annoying - hopefully tomorrow! god knows how much that call from my hotel room's gonna cost!
decided not to stress about that and went off for more exploring - wandered off into the downtown area, same old shops i'm afraid, so not much to interest me there as i've done quite a bit of shopping in nyc. came across a square with a lot of people hanging around and a band were setting up but it was just some guy going on and on about stuff so i wandered off again.
when i came upon the square again it was a joy - a proper band playing swing and jazz and people dancing... not shuffling about but proper swing dancing. now some of them were terrible and some of them were great, but the nice thing was that it didn't matter! the band were keeping the songs short and everyone was swapping partners each time - good with bad, good with good, bad with bad, old with young, fat with thin, cool with uncool - it didn't matter - what mattered was that everyone was having a great time. i ended up sitting down and watching them all and smiling until 9pm when they wrapped it up - what a delight! i was asked to dance once by a man and once by a woman but i was just really enjoying watching - and i had flip-flops on - so i got out of that one!
by this time i was pretty hungry - i hadn't actually eaten all day - the money thing was a bit of a problem - but i went and got some money out off one of my english cards (sod it!) and took myself off to a restaurant that had been recommended to me by the wonderful guy who gave me a lift from the airport last night. the restaurant is called 'long' and it's vietnamese food which i love... now, as many of you know i absolutely hate doing some things on my own - gigs is one, eating in restaurants in the evening is another. but i'd had such a lovely day - i didn't care! i went in and they couldn't have been nicer - they gave me a nice table outside and i ordered a pineapple mojito (please god can london have these by the time i get home?!) and veggie spring rolls and then coconut and pork with pepper with plain rice. wow! it was way too much but so delicious!
the maitre'd guy came over and we had a chat - he'd lived in london for a year - worked at the hilton edgware road - so we chatted about london and new york and seattle while the waiter packed up the rest of my dinner for me before i stumbled out of there and had a nice post-dinner cigarette... only - holy sh*t! was it the cig or the pineapple mojito - i was swerving all over the sidewalk... he he he! i had to sit down for a second to compose myself before wandering off down the wrong avenue for about 5 blocks before i realised, walked up to the next avenue and back the way i'd come to find my hotel just where i'd left it!
today was a good day...
nighty night!
vx
view from my hotel room
pike place market
dancing:
mmmmmmojito:
spring rolls don't look like this in london:
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