We have 2 full days in Seattle, but for some reason we tried to do everything today! Our day started early with a tasting tour of Pike Place Market.  

It was a great tour and the food was great! The tour was through Savor Seattle food tours. All different kinds of tours depending on food tastes, etc.We started at the famous gum wall! They recently scraped all the gum off to make sure sugar wasn’t damaging the bricks. It wasn’t, but they scraped off over 2,300 lbs of gum! Roughly the equivalent of a polar bear!!  Yuck 😝

We met the baker/owner at Honest Biscuits – he’s from Raleigh, NC (Go Pack!). These cheese biscuits were delicious and they gave us coffee 🎉

Mike said this was somebody’s grandma’s recipe –  and it sure was!After this we left and found Big Foot!- 

Our next stop was to a donut shop, where their specialty was Maple Bacon Donut! It was like a whole breakfast in one donut – Delicious! I’m sure it was low calorie too 😊Leo liked it but Michael wouldn’t try it.
We visited a spice shop that I swear had every spice you can imagine!We tried smoked salmon and salmon jerky – all the boys loved both! And then… It was on to the fish throwing!

Michael found a huge salmon and Leo liked the Monk Fish

(There is a chain hooked to the Monk fish and he would “jump” every now and then. It was too funny!)

We loved watching them making cheese… But we liked eating the cheese even better!

We stopped by the Original Starbucks! So very glad they made more than one!

We had some amazing Chinese chicken pita sandwich – woo! Spicy!

And we finished the tour at Rachel’s Ginger Beer – it’s non-alcoholic, like root beer. It was a little spicy with all the ginger but when they made it into a ginger beer float – Yum!!!

When the tour ended, we toured the market on our own and saw the coolest cauliflower…
And just toured around a bit…

Then we headed over to the Space Needle for lunch at the top. The Sky City restaurant is located right below the observation deck, and it rotates!!! 

The lunch is pricey but it included your ticket up the space needle. Plus some of the wait staff (like ours) will let you split the (overpriced) brunch, so it wasn’t too terrible. This is a half portion and it’s plenty of food!

But the funniest and most memorable part of the lunch with the girl from the table beside us. Her parents would just let her wander around the restaurant, and she would just come stand at our table and just stare 😳. Seriously, it was like Mike Meyers from Halloween.  I thought well maybe something was wrong with her? Nope, she talked and behaved like normal with her parents and wait staff but we got this – and she would just stand there for about five minutes at a time…

It finally got to the point that I just started laughing uncontrollably every time she came to the table😂😂😂

The views at the Space Needle are really awesome… Even if you have to eat lunch with Baby Mike Myers. 

After the Space Needle, Pike Place Market, Gum Wall… We decided to just walk around. I’m so glad we did because we found the International Fountain

The fountain was originally built for the Worlds Fair here in Seattle back in 60’s, and was redone – now it is a place for families to just spend a day cooling off – so we did!

Okay but now the problem is how do we get dry? Sunshine and a playground should do it… And look what we found…

This is the Artists at Play Playground. The playground was created by some artists for the city of Seattle to engage all the senses – there are noise pieces, large rope for touch, bright colors for the eyes, etc. But to the Brown Brothers, it was a giant ninja warrior course!

 It really was a cool place and we sat in the shade watching them play for almost 2 hours! On the way home, all that playing caught up with Leo

But have no fear! A 20 minute recharge in the Uber and he was ready to go! We headed to the activity room at the hotel – this was a huge selling point for this hotel! They are so family friendly! Boys loved having an activity room to get rid of any remaining energy 

And to get rid of those activity room germs… Chlorine!

After swimming, we showered and, you guessed it, time to eat again! Tonight we rode to another local restaurant recommended by one of our Uber driver: Lunchbox Laboratory 

Pretty good food – burgers and fries but things weren’t greasy and Mike said the tater tots were best he’s ever had – and he loves tater tots! 😍. The shakes were delicious!

I do think I have the most handsome dates – including the mountain man! 
 But as of 10pm PST, the mountain man is no more! 

So tomorrow we have our very full day of vacation 😳😬😩 I can’t believe it’s almost over! But there is still of Seattle to explore and of course, more food to eat!!! 😜