From left to right we have: Chris, Lea, (Winnie - held by Lea), Lydia, Ray, Lucia, Phil, Kevin, and Alex.
We stopped by a few places in the market before heading off to lunch, including the fish market. The famous place you hear about on the food network where they throw fish, yell things to each other and in general entertain while they work. Sadly for us there was not so much fish throwing. Although we did see them throw a couple bundles of crabs...That brings us to lunch. We ate at a french restaurant in the market, whose name I can't remember. What I do remember is mussels...lots and lots of mussels. Buckets of mussels in fact. I'm not quite sure how I missed getting a picture of the buckets and buckets of mussels, but I do have a consolation picture of Chris mourning the absence of Winnie, Phil's sister. She's in Maine for a good portion of the summer, so she wasn't able to join us, but that didn't stop the cousins from taking her to see all the sites!
And what would a stop at the Public Market be without seeing the first Starbucks. Aside from the unusually large crowd and the singing performers outside it looked pretty much like any other Starbucks. Although they did have a lovely plaque inside to let you know this was the first Starbucks store. I was able to take a quick picture before I got squeezed out the door.
Rather than waiting on the long line at the first Starbucks to get coffee we stopped at a place called Tully's a couple blocks down and got some blueberry coffee. I had never heard of blueberry flavored coffee before, so I assumed that it was a Seattle thing, but a couple days ago we stopped by Bruegger's Bagels in Cleveland with Phil's parents and they had it too. It must be a trend...I guess I'm not hip to the coffee scene anymore.
And here's a random picture of Phil on a fake green dog...
Our next stop for the afternoon was at the Space Needle. No trip to Seattle would be complete without stopping here. Of course we didn't actually go up to the top, but we did spend some quality time in the gift shop on the first floor.
And right around the side of the Space Needle there was a small amusement park/carnival type area with carnival games and kiddie rides. There were definitely some rounds of Skee Ball and balloon popping going on. Not to mention a very long ride of bumper cars, which Chris and I caught on video! But it's too long to show here, so you'll just have to use your imagination. And we had some tickets left over from bumper cars that we all used to take a ride down the giant inflatable slide.
Next we stopped at a place called Crab Pot for dinner.
This place was pretty popular because of its unique atmosphere. You get a small cutting board, a mallet, and a bib plus a whole table of seafood (with some corn and potatoes mixed in for good measure). Basically the waitress brings out a bucket of seafood, or in our case 3, and just dumps it all on the table. I'm not much of a seafood person myself, and neither is Phil, but it was pretty good. And good atmosphere with good company makes for a good time!
Here's a look at the table of seafood... 
Here's a look at the demolished table of seafood...
But even after all the eating everyone was still in high spirits.
Kevin, Alex, Lucia and Chris doing their post meal happy dance. Ok, maybe I made the happy dance part up, but it does kind of look like they're doing a happy dance...
And Lucia, Chris and Lea with their crab mallets.
Then after dinner and a quick stop by a bubble tea shop Phil and I headed off to our red eye flight back to Cleveland. And that brings us to the end of our Seattle trip. If I can actually get a video uploaded here I can show you the post crab mallet drum off! If not, you'll just have to wait for it on YouTube. ^__~
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