Seattle Part II

Some more of Seattle.

My cousin’s friends invited us to sail across a lake (which I don’t know the name of) to get lunch. It might not even be called a lake.

Heading back to the city.

I think this is the same corner as : http://jtollan.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/mg_8546.jpg.

I decided to walk back after getting a bus journey one day. I didn’t know it would take me around 3 hours.

At Oktoberfest in Puyallup.

My cousin Mark trying ‘Hammerschlagen’.

Mayday and Dianne doing the chicken dance.

Mount Rainier is just visible in the distance.

‘Force’.

On the way to the Seattle Sounders FC stadium to watch a ‘soccer’ match. FC stands for ‘football club’.

No idea.

Kylee and the dogs having a nap on my bed.

At Red Mill Burgers. I recommend the bacon.

Kylee had heard that Barack OBama was to speak at a rally in the University of Washington. Luckily, it was just a couple of days before I left. We got up around 5am to join the queue. You can just make out where it ends.

The way it worked out; if we had arrived later, we would have been much closer.

Spot the pimp.

High five.

Eddie, Chloe and my cousin Ashley on my last night. We had macaroni cheese and played ‘Apples to Apples’. I definitely need to buy it at some point.

3rd attempt to upload, so hopefully it has worked. *edit* It didn’t work and deleted half of the photo’s. Cheers for looking.

Seattle Part I

It’s now June, but here are photo’s from when I was in Seattle, in September. Around 75% of these wouldn’t have been put up a few months ago. When I arrived, I was held in airport security for over 3 hours without being given a reason why.  After being interrogated, getting my luggage pulled apart and having my e-mails sifted through, they believed that I wasn’t aiming to get a job and work for 2 months and kindly let me leave…

I mainly stayed with my cousins, Kylee and Ashley, in ‘downtown’ Seattle. Kylee and I took Oliver and Chloe for a walk once I stopped moaning about what happened.

Advance apology for so many dog photo’s. I hope they are some form of payment for allowing me to get in the way.

Chloe, wanting me to feed her.

 

There is public art and sculptures all round Seattle. It was sometimes hard to tell which was which.

Kylee’s uncle and cousins brought us along to a gig to see a band called JJ Gray and Mofro.  This was at the Showbox at the Market which was walking distance away.

Oliver.

Not sure about this one.

A new Skoda advert came on the t.v a couple of months ago, and I was certain I recognised the drummer in it from somewhere. Pretty sure this is him, but I didn’t get to see him play. He is a street drummer called Phil Bondy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqPH4wwQ0BI.

The Seattle Mariners playing the Boston Red Sox. They lost.

I’ve never seen another dog pose so much.

The ‘Gasworks Park’.

A bit too ‘Windows 96 desktop’.

Kylee and Oliver.

I took pictures of the Space Needle to give me a rough idea of where I was. I generally just walked around and got lost for a few hours.

The American flag is up everywhere you go. It’s pretty standard to take photo’s of them because it seems like a novelty to us.

Pretty ‘loud’ trousers…

My pals when no one was at home.

A tape Kylee came across, when cleaning out her car.

I stayed with more family in Tacoma. This was at the state fair in Puyallup. It rained a lot so didn’t have my camera out much.

I hope this t-shirt was custom made. I think.

Donkey.

I think this is Chambers Bay at Steilacoom. Kylee can correct me if I’m wrong.

Some of my family at the bar.

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The house and bar were used for a neighbours birthday party.

I didn’t take many other photo’s that night. Will put some more up soon. Criticism always welcome. Cheers for looking.