Wednesday, January 10, 2007
The Seattle Pilgrimage
Our last few days in Whistler were just as good as the first few. We went back up the mountain again, I improved more again, and in then end boarded from 3/4 of the way up (2000m) all the way down into the village and Kate improved out of sight, going from hardly getting up all day, to doing entire runs on her own. We had a ball!! That day and night it bucketed down snow, we were really lucky, in the week we were in Whistler, we got nearly 2 metres of snow, one night when Louse got home from work we went out the front of their house and waded around in snow up to our waists. It was a great experience!
We had to leave Whistler unfortunately a couple of days ago, it was sad to leave such a beautiful place and also sad to leave Louse and Mandy, not knowing when we'd see them again, but Louse and I made the most of our time, drinking a ridiculous amount of alcohol each day!
Kate and I spent a night in Vancouver then got the bus to Seattle yesterday to embark on our music pilgrimage, or should I say MY pilgrimage. Yesterday went around to small cafe's and saloons where bands like Pearl Jam, REM, Soundgarden play secret gigs, we saw where Nirvanas first ever Seattle gig was, we found where Pearl Jam and Soundgarden rehearsed and created there stage sets, we found the location where Jimi Hendrix brought his first ever guitar. Today was really cool, we walked the entire width of Seattle to find the only memorial to Kurt Cobain (Nirvana singer), an unofficial memorial, but as he was cremated and the ashes haven't been buried anywhere, fans went to a small park next to his house where he was found dead and turned the park bench there into a place people around the world can come to remember him. It is now a graffiti laden bench with messages all over, flowers and things like picks people have left. Was amazing being there, right next to his house where he lived with Courtney Love and was found dead in. The house is surrounded with huge fences and large hedges, but I managed to squeeze through a few bushes and scale a fence to get a shot of the house. Eerie feeling being there, but was amazing, for me anyway! After that we saw some other monuments, the Space Needle and then hiked up a hill to get the entire view of Seattle, the exact shot shown at the start of Frasier! We then got to experience why this city is known as the rainy city, we fought through cyclonic conditions to the first ever Starbucks for shelter. Kate is enjoying herself here as well, not like me though, I'm like a kid in a candy shop!
Having a great time here, we leave tomorrow for another 2 nights in Vancouver, and then we're off to Sunny (hopefully) California!
We had to leave Whistler unfortunately a couple of days ago, it was sad to leave such a beautiful place and also sad to leave Louse and Mandy, not knowing when we'd see them again, but Louse and I made the most of our time, drinking a ridiculous amount of alcohol each day!
Kate and I spent a night in Vancouver then got the bus to Seattle yesterday to embark on our music pilgrimage, or should I say MY pilgrimage. Yesterday went around to small cafe's and saloons where bands like Pearl Jam, REM, Soundgarden play secret gigs, we saw where Nirvanas first ever Seattle gig was, we found where Pearl Jam and Soundgarden rehearsed and created there stage sets, we found the location where Jimi Hendrix brought his first ever guitar. Today was really cool, we walked the entire width of Seattle to find the only memorial to Kurt Cobain (Nirvana singer), an unofficial memorial, but as he was cremated and the ashes haven't been buried anywhere, fans went to a small park next to his house where he was found dead and turned the park bench there into a place people around the world can come to remember him. It is now a graffiti laden bench with messages all over, flowers and things like picks people have left. Was amazing being there, right next to his house where he lived with Courtney Love and was found dead in. The house is surrounded with huge fences and large hedges, but I managed to squeeze through a few bushes and scale a fence to get a shot of the house. Eerie feeling being there, but was amazing, for me anyway! After that we saw some other monuments, the Space Needle and then hiked up a hill to get the entire view of Seattle, the exact shot shown at the start of Frasier! We then got to experience why this city is known as the rainy city, we fought through cyclonic conditions to the first ever Starbucks for shelter. Kate is enjoying herself here as well, not like me though, I'm like a kid in a candy shop!
Having a great time here, we leave tomorrow for another 2 nights in Vancouver, and then we're off to Sunny (hopefully) California!
# posted by Barb @ 1:16 pm 
