Seattle Flowers

C'mon, you didn't think I would go to Seattle and not check out the flowers did ya?
I took pictures of the Pike Street market because my eyes were about to pop out of my head.

These flowers bunches were $5 each.
Excuse me?
DOLLARS?
What the hell are they made of? I know you're thinking
"Tell me how you really feel, B"

But seriously, I was a little delirious because it was rows and rows of gorgeous flowers for $5 for each bouquet.
They had peonies and lilies and roses and dahlias and freaking tulips.....they were killing me.
I mean granted, they were wide open, so the blooms themselves were good for about 2 days tops, but still.
That's a pretty sweet deal.
The sweet peas were TWO mo#$%rf*&king dollars a bunch.
Who grows them? Are they made out of magic seeds?
Or have I been buying flowers in San Francisco for too long?
Am I over reacting?
probably, huh?

Then this gorgeous arrangement of peppers and statice
were hanging in the market and I fell in love.
I really need to have one of these in my kitchen.

The view from our hotel?
Was definitely not this but we were only about 2 blocks away from the Space Needle! hehe, it was beautiful
Did I mention it was hot out there?
I'm from San Francisco
Ya know the old saying
"The coldest winter I have ever endured was a summer I spent in San Francisco."
We are used to 50-60 degrees.
So 90 degrees per day without being near a pool and a steady supply of pina coladas was pretty darn tough for me.

So we went to this gorgeous fountain at the Seattle Center ever day so the kids could run around and have fun.

Everywhere we went, I saw Michael Jackson's tributes and heard his music. It was pretty awesome. We happened to go to the Experience Music Project and outside of the building they played Michael Jackson songs continuously all day long and people had written tributes to MJ in chalk. I love this CH'MON shot I got.

Seattle has art installments everywhere and I have tons of pictures but this is my favorite.

The trip was great, the family kids had fun and the fireworks were pretty great.
Here are the smiley face fireworks at Lake Union.

So I am off to Missouri for the AIFD symposium.
Wish me luck, I compete on Saturday morning!