Tour Guide in Downtown Seattle for a Day

The weekend arrives, and so it was time to venture into Seattle for the 5th (or 6th) time ever to showcase the city.

After reading and listening to the more experienced tour guides, it was decided that a walk around downtown would literally fill up the day. Places that were hit include Pioneer Square, Pike Place Market, and Space Needle. Randomly also walked through the Aquarium. This one was the surprising one, because it actually turned out really cool! You get to touch the starfish there, and its just presented very well. I was very impressed with it.

For lunch, had dim sum in the International District. The food there was ok, but the wait there was tremendously long. The bill did come out real cheap though, but factoring in the wait, the restaurant was not really worth it. The cool thing though was because we had to wait for an hour, we walked around the International District and got into this teapot selling place. There the lady served us 'kung fu' tea. Pretty interesting... The teapot sets looked pretty cool as well. Too bad they didn't have any glass ones (I was told that wood and clay is what is usually used), otherwise I would have got a set.. heh heh

Pike place was the usual... nothing special there. Just seemed like a big flea market. Space Needle though was interesting. The view was ok (it's nothing compared to CN Tower), but the view at night is REALLY pretty. Armed with my camera, I played around with it and got a pretty nice pic of the Seattle nighttime. Come summer time, I am gonna go back and take more pictures!

They also had this ice cream that was really cool. The smoke comes from the dry ice that they put in. After I got it, the 2 tables around me also got this dry ice ice cream :). What a great salesman I am.. haha

Personally, I think the bulk of Seattle's tourism revenue comes from friends and family visiting the people who work here. With amazing discounts on everything, the tour guides (us) take friends and family around and help out the tourism business here quite a bit. All these buy 1 get 1 free, and half price and subsidized stuff... it's a very neat perk! I wonder if TO will ever start doing something like this... hrmmm...