A few questions about Seattle. Where did you stay? If you didn’t know, I’ll be in Seattle next Wednesday and Thursday. We’ll be staying at the Holiday Inn near Seattle Center.

Care to rank the sights that you took in? I definitely plan to spend some time at Pike Place Market. How about these duck things you keep talking about? Is EMP worth it? Kim probably won’t care for it. We only have one full day in Seattle so I’m trying to cram everything in.

Enjoy the rest of your trip.

We also stayed at the Holiday Inn near the Seattle Center. Did you use Priceline because that seems to be the one that pops up the most. The hotel itself is nice enough, but it’s in a run-down neighborhood and not really in “downtown” Seattle at all. You actually have to walk 3-4 blocks to get into the downtown “Free Bus Zone”. That’s not bad, but the main problem is that we saw bums sleeping around every side of the building. Any further North and it’s not a great neighborhood. But like I said, the hotel was clean and the staff was very helpful. I’d suggest grabbing cabs everywhere if you don’t want to waste a lot of time walking.

Pike Place is awesome. Don’t skip that, but don’t bother with the Ducks. I was only kidding about riding them as a last resort thing since we ran out of stuff to do. I thought the EMP was great so if you have an hour or 2 to spare it’s worth visiting. Plus, the Space Needle is literally next door so you can knock them both out.

The Pioneer Square area is currently under construction so I’d avoid making the trek there. The harbor cruise we took was pretty neat so I’d suggest doing one of those if you get the chance.

For dinner one night we went to a place called Rock Salt that the Holiday Inn staff recommended. It wasn’t too crowded or touristy, but they had some excellent steaks and seafood. Hope that helps - enjoy the trip!

Anyway, I did use priceline for the hotel. I’ve been reading all about the area and the not so good neighborhood. Oh well. As long as the hotel is decent, I’ll have no complaints.

Was the monorail running while you were there? I was thinking of taking that to the Market and the downtown area. I just checked on it though, and I guess it’s shut down once again. We’ll probably just take a few cabs, like you mentioned.

Thanks for the recommendations. I hope we can squeeze it all in.