Travel Lite

We flew out of Calgary in the wee hours (6 am) of July 9th. Our flight to Seattle took abou 2 hours, but we had an 8 hour layover before boarding our next flight (to Japan). We decided to take advantage of the layover, and take the train into Seattle to see the sights. First stop- finding some Starbucks of course! With latte in hand, we took the monorail out to see the Seattle space needle.  Both the monorail and the Space needle were built for the 1962 World's Fair.  As such the monorail is beautiful little piece of mid century design. 

Clearly I'm very excited to be in Seattle, or on a monorail, or drinking a Starbucks.

Seattle is a very beatiful, lush, green city- this photo doesn't accurately describe it. At the bottom of the needle there is a amazing glass museum, but our early flight in meant it hadn't opened yet. So we headed on and put it on our "come back and visit list". 

Next up was the famous Seattle fishmarket Pikes Place- and apparent home of the first ever Starbucks. But we didn't know that so we didn't stop there, can you believe it?! The fishmarket had a variety of smells: fresh seafood, fresh flowers, and  fresh baking. 

We did a quick tour of the fishmarket, bought some giant cookies and headed back on the train to the airport. By the time we boarded our flight to Japan we'd been awake 13 hours and still had a 10-hour flight ahead of us, followed by a 4 hour plane ride to China. All in all, we weren't even halfway through a 30 hour travel day. Liam and I joked that our stops in both Calgary and Seattle were on the "travel lite" side of our journey. Hong Kong, however, was what we were anticipating to be "travel pro" territory.

P.S. Here is a photo my husband made me post. It showcases the exquisite amount of legroom we were afforded on a simple $43 dollar plane fare. You are welcome Muffy.