Showing Yngvar Around, Day 4
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ravyngyngvar's visit to the Murk, but it's only day 4 of doing touristy things, so!
On today's agenda: the Seattle Aquarium, Pike Place Market, and a bit of random wandering around downtown. The Aquarium was fun, though we saw the best stuff pretty much immediately upon going in: the river otters, the sea otters, and the harbor seals, all of whom were excruciatingly cute. The aquarium staff fed and trained both the seals and the sea otters while we were there, so we got to see them get all excited about getting treats and do various and sundry training-type behaviors that allowed the staff to check them over and make sure they were happy and healthy critters. The moral of this story is that there are few things in the world as cute as a harbor seal treading water such that its head bobs straight up and down, unless it's a sea otter playing with a big plastic hollow ball and making squeaky noises that I never knew an otter made before. It sounded like the otter was a giant mobile squeaky toy, or perhaps a bird. It was the damndest noise I'd ever heard coming out of a sizeable mammal.
At Pike Place, we got tasty salmon sandwiches and soft serve ice cream, and wandered around for a while through the shops, and finally went to Borders on our way back to the bus stop. We both made purchases--books, pretty much--though the only thing that kept me from buying chicken rosemary sausage at the market was that I didn't want to carry it all the way back to Kenmore.
Tomorrow, assuming the weather holds out: the zoo!
Thursday miles: 2.6 (as Carbon Leaf have been heard to say, 'wandrin' around')
Miles out of Hobbiton: 483.2
Miles out of Rivendell: 25.2
Miles to Lothlórien: 436.8
ravyngyngvar's visit to the Murk, but it's only day 4 of doing touristy things, so!On today's agenda: the Seattle Aquarium, Pike Place Market, and a bit of random wandering around downtown. The Aquarium was fun, though we saw the best stuff pretty much immediately upon going in: the river otters, the sea otters, and the harbor seals, all of whom were excruciatingly cute. The aquarium staff fed and trained both the seals and the sea otters while we were there, so we got to see them get all excited about getting treats and do various and sundry training-type behaviors that allowed the staff to check them over and make sure they were happy and healthy critters. The moral of this story is that there are few things in the world as cute as a harbor seal treading water such that its head bobs straight up and down, unless it's a sea otter playing with a big plastic hollow ball and making squeaky noises that I never knew an otter made before. It sounded like the otter was a giant mobile squeaky toy, or perhaps a bird. It was the damndest noise I'd ever heard coming out of a sizeable mammal.
At Pike Place, we got tasty salmon sandwiches and soft serve ice cream, and wandered around for a while through the shops, and finally went to Borders on our way back to the bus stop. We both made purchases--books, pretty much--though the only thing that kept me from buying chicken rosemary sausage at the market was that I didn't want to carry it all the way back to Kenmore.
Tomorrow, assuming the weather holds out: the zoo!
Thursday miles: 2.6 (as Carbon Leaf have been heard to say, 'wandrin' around')
Miles out of Hobbiton: 483.2
Miles out of Rivendell: 25.2
Miles to Lothlórien: 436.8