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[Prestacious]

Seattle?

 

I'm going to a conference for a week, anybody from out West or have been there that can recommend some things I should definitely do or see? Top restaurants or dingy dark coffee shops I can hole up in and study/update the HoF from?

 

Okay thanks,

 

Your friendly neighborhood Batarian

[TheTechnoTurian]

Oh, Seattle. I lived there for five years, though tbh didn't really see the sights much since I was too busy studying and working.  

 

WARNING:  I'm a nerd so the only stuff I know are museums and such. 

 

1.) There's a coffee shop every five feet. Seattle's got ya covered.

 

2.) There's the Space Needle. It's got a restaurant at the top. 'Course this time of year you'll get an awesome view of gray rainy clouds instead of the cool view of the city skyline framed by Mount Rainier.

 

3.) If you're interested in museums, music, or sci fi there's the EMP Museum. Cool place. 

 

4.) Lots of pilots in my family so I'm kind of an aviation nut, and always enjoyed the Museum of Flight.  It's got mostly planes and some space vehicles. No mako yet, unfortunately. 

 

5.) The Underground Tour if you like historical type things. 

 

Now if you ask me about bars or night spots i'll just stare at you blankly. Restaurants, well, kinda clueless there too aside from the space needle since I never eat out much. Seattle supposedly has seafood but I'm a nerdy vegetarian so dunno there. 

 

also Palaven aka Eastern Washington where I live is located ~200 miles to the East of Seattle so you can face that direction once you arrive in Seattle and wave and I'll wave back. 

 

edit: If your conference is at the UW Med School or something you can go out on the campus, find the fountain, and jump in the horrible dirty water to commemorate a very dumb thing I did during college. If not disregard. 

 

edit2: then again if you do this and take a picture of yourself doing it I reward you with a million .... bsn bucks 

[TheTechnoTurian]

Also: 

 

don't be a scrub and use an umbrella, they will sense that you are an outsider 

[TheTechnoTurian]

One other thing (for a turian living on Palaven you may think it is suspicious that I seem to have knowledge of this topic but bear with me here) the Pike Place Market is usually a good place to wonder around, eat, shop, etc. 

[Prestacious]

Haha thanks techno

That is one great list! I'm really looking forward to the trip. For some strange unknown reason, I've always been drawn to Seattle. I think I am close the University actually, although I may need at least the neck of a beer before I jump in any water falls. I'll be sure to include a picture though, don't worry.

I actually do like museums and was thinking of doing one sort of outing per day while I spend the rest of the time studying in various coffee shops, so I will check out both the EMP and the aviation museum.. cause I love space/aviation.

This trip is already sounding much better than smuggling an xbox into my hotel and playing me3 for a week straight. Well, it's at least tied with that plan.

I'll wave/ send a pic from the tower. I also don't own an umbrella and I am a pretty big fan of food, being alive and such, so I think I'll check out that market too!

Have you considered starting a Palaven tour guide fat Turian Lil fat book of traveling tips and adventures on the pursuit of fatdome?

[TheTechnoTurian]

I definitely can confirm that I have considered starting my own branch of Rodham Expeditions  and selling adventure travel packages, possibly even writing a fat turian travel tour tip book of some sort 

[Salarian Jesus]

[Prestacious]

Seattle was pretty cool! I admittedly didn't do as much as I had initially planned, but I did check out the Pike place market and I got a sweet view of Mt. Rainier

 

All in all, my highlight of the trip, not so surprisingly, was the coffee. lol I randomly discovered the Starbucks reserve roastery and tried a freshly brewed and roasted coffee from Rowanda. It changed my life. I'm not even joking. I am looking into opening something like this when I head back to Canada. After 31 years of living, I was made aware of the fact that I've been drinking burnt water instead of coffee all this time.

[TheTechnoTurian]

All in all, my highlight of the trip, not so surprisingly, was the coffee. 

 

Seattle Mastery Achievement unlocked 

[Prestacious]

[Salarian Jesus]

^There, I lent you a like.

[Prestacious]

Dammit, I went to "like" your post too. lol Thank you for the loan. 

 

@Techno: That is an achievement I can be truly proud of . I had so much coffee over the week that I went through withdrawal when I came back and had my usual 3-4 coffees a day.