Pike's is THE PLACE!

One of our stops on our Seattle trip was the world famous Pike's Place Market...What a cool place! It was very crowded but that was a plus since Emily and I love watching people (it's one of our more enjoyable hobbies). Between the street performers, crowd, and workers there were plenty of interesting people to watch. We saw the famous fish tossing, which was more entertaining than I expected. A huge crowd was gathered round as they tossed the fish back and forth. Then the worker said, "one more" while he grabbed another fish. He threw it once again except this time purposfully in to the crowd, every one screamed and scattered thinking they would get slimed by the fish, but as it hit the cement floor everyone realized it was a foam replica instead of the real thing...great fun! The thing that I was most surprised with is the cost of things. I was expecting everything to have a huge mark-up on it since this was such a popular tourist attraction, but I was wrong, you could actually buy things there that were way cheaper than they would be anywhere else. For example, the flower arrangements were not only the most perfect, colorful, flowers I'd ever seen but were the cheapest I'd ever seen also. Comparable arrangements would easily sell for 60-80 dollars and they were selling them here for 14-25 dollars it was crazy, and even though they were awesome I still couldn't bring myself to "waste" my money on a flower arrangement that would die in a couple weeks. The food was also great. We had fresh clam chowder, not just any clam chowder, but the "nations best" (it has won the national chowder competition almost every year including this year). Overall Pike's market was our favorite stop on the trip, and a place we would go back to any chance we had... we would recommend it to all who are in the Seattle area but don't forget to pick us up on the way.