After an amazing week in Maine getting married, we spent one night back at our apartment in Manhattan before jetting off to the other coast. We spent much of our first day in Seattle exploring the Pike Place Market, which may have been one of my favorite places ever.
I have a soft spot for markets in general, but the Pike Place Market is just a huge treasure trove of all sorts of goodies. They have a lot of nicknack stores and some oddities, but my favorite parts of the market were 2 things.
1- The flowers:
The likes of which I had not seen before and were just show stopping.
2- Tons of fresh food:
The fish tossers are famous
And the same market had some of the biggest lobster tails we’ve ever seen
We got some great fresh made donuts for breakfast one morning and I took a video of the cool mini donut maker they had:
And we picked up some great things to bring home, including gooseberry jam and chocolate pasta. But the fresh Washington cherries were perfect snacks for the road trip.
It made me really wish we had a kitchen so we could sweep up all those amazing ingredients and make meals from them.
But the market itself was very cool to walk through.
There were some cool big sculptures, including this huge squid…
And a few pigs…
Right outside the market is a huge gum wall, which is surprisingly cool to see (and Mike made a contribution)
The Pike Place Market is also across from the original Starbucks (which had too long a line for us to bother with, but was cool to see).
If you are going to Seattle, I highly recommend setting aside a good amount of time for exploring the nooks and crannies of the Pike Place market.
