Well our first impressions of Seattle are good. We love the architecture of most of downtown. Unlike L.A. we got the impression that the Downtown area grew around the infrastructure; L.A. builds infrastructure around the city — except for a few exceptions like the 101 or the 110 fwys. Business is pretty much closed after 7pm in the area we are staying. There is a hospital across the street so We get the feeling that most businesses cater around the hospital staff. We are also across Washington Seattle University and so we expected to see more college kids, but it’s summer so I suppose it’s normal that there are none to be seen.

We walked a lot today. Eventually we took a bus from the free zone of Downtown to just a few blocks from the Silver Cloud. There is a Baptist Church a block away. We can see the steeple from our room and we wanted to walk by — once again we were impressed by the architecture.

One thing we noticed right away was the amount of folks on the street smoking. Walking to downtown we passed two men within half a block looking for a smoke, and everywhere else people were smoking left and right. It didn’t surprise us by the time we were on our way back to the hotel that only a few blocks away was a “smokes store”.

Tattoos are also very common and although we are not sure if it is the touristy part of Seattle’s crowd in which case the tattoos are not Seattle-ist, but if they are locals, there are more folks with tattoos than in L.A.

Seattle graffiti is also not quite up to par with L.A. graffiti, most of it is sloppy and old — you can tell by how faded the ink looks. Over all Seattle is a great place so far. The weather? LOVE IT! it was suppose to be in the 80’s, but it felt very much like low 70’s, with a nice breeze. The sky is blue like it aught to be, and there is much to be said about the visible snow in the mountains especially because it is July!

Now the one thing we were really excited about was finding a great little old van parked outside a clothing store of some sort with a vintage looking star wars theme. It was great!

Happy Honeymooning to us!