This semester has been rough, I had some econ classes that kicked my trash but they are over now and I have learned my lesson to avoid an econ major. My real estate development class, however, was very fun. We had final presentations on Tuesday night. Our group of four, doing an evaluation on The Edgemont Plaza, (Canyon road, a couple blocks from where the Shumways live) was voted the best project and presentation. Our teacher concurred and openly admitted to the class that we not only blew them all out of the water but we did better than any group to do an evaluation on the Edgemont Plaza in the last five years.
Travis and I packed our things and finished finals on Wednesday in order to leave that evening at six O’clock. We got a ride from the ride board to Seattle where we will be flying to Fairbanks, Alaska for the summer. We rode with Lindsay and Adam in her Mazda Tribute, a crossover. They are dating and are in the same major and all the same classes so they know each other very well and talked and listened to music the entire way while Travis and I tried to make ourselves somewhat comfortable and sleep a little. We drove through the night and arrived in Seattle at about 8 AM Pacific time.
During the entire ride it rained, and through the Snoqualmie Pass and the Blue Mountains it snowed, and for a bit in the Blue Mountains we hit some very thick fog.
They dropped us off at the airport and from there we got a shuttle to a near-by inn and dropped our things of and then we caught the light rail to downtown Seattle to go exploring. We went to the Klondike Gold Rush Museum, visited Pioneer Square, and walked along the wharf on the harbor. We walked through pikes market where we got a sample of smoked salmon, and saw many other exciting shops. We passed by Nordstrom’s, where Mr. Nordstrom started his company as a shoe business. We visited the Space Needle and saw the International fountain and the key arena where Seattle’s basketball team used to play. Basically, we ran all around downtown trying to see any thing interesting or cool.
For lunch, we were passing a restaurant that said Chinese buffet $8, so we decided to check it out. The buffet hours were almost over so there was not much left so they said they would charge us half price and it was a done deal. Travis and I cleaned out the rest of the buffet until we were stuffed and not even we could finish it all off. Their sweet and sour sauce was supper good, it was totally natural, not the nasty orange-red stuff that comes with Panda Express. We could actually taste the honey that they put in their sauce to make it sweet - it was so good.
The Seattle space needle
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