my niece is here! we're going to the UW campus and maybe also downtown today. it looks like friday will be the clearest, sunniest day during her visit, so i think we'll head down to mt st helen's then.
what else would an 18 year old enjoy? ideas, please!
Classics: Space Needle Monorail Pike Place Market Agua Verde with Kayaking at the Arboretum Argosy Locks tour (about $25 per person, 2 hour tour from the Sound through the locks & onto the lake)
Funky & Thrifty: Ferry ride to the penninsula Alki Water Taxi Alki Beach (stop at Duke's for happy hour snax) The parrot shop underneath the market Bruce & Brandon Lee's graves at Lakeside Cemetary The water tower at Volunteer Park Soundgarden The troll in Fremont Evening all-ages action (Vera Project & Showbox are good for this) Public art everywhere (storm drain covers, the International Fountain, kenetic instruments at the UW Hospital, etc etc) The Ballard Locks & gardens on foot Gasworks Park Karoke at Bush Gardens
1. I'd like to second the kayaking idea and suggest doing it on a weekday to avoid the worst of the power boat and jet ski crowd.
2. I heard somewhere that the soundgarden is no longer accessible to the public. I don't know if this is true. might be worth checking out before schlepping out there. if you do check it out, let me know what you find.
3. the Underground Tour is a lot of fun also. I also can pretty highly recommend the Argosy harbor tour. don't remember how the pricing compares to the Locks tour, but I found it (somewhat to my surprise) quite educational as well as picturesque. as touristy stuff goes, both are pretty good bang for your buck.
4. plenty of good museum art (in addition to the public stuff mentioned above). the frye is free. asian art museum is pretty interesting.
5. speaking of asian art, just walking around the ID for a while then paying a visit to the japanese garden down there is a pretty good afternoon. could also stop by uwajimaya, which can be fascinating for certain sorts of people.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
onlyembers
I love visitors
Date: 2007-08-08 07:37 pm (UTC)Space Needle
Monorail
Pike Place Market
Agua Verde with Kayaking at the Arboretum
Argosy Locks tour (about $25 per person, 2 hour tour from the Sound through the locks & onto the lake)
Funky & Thrifty:
Ferry ride to the penninsula
Alki Water Taxi
Alki Beach (stop at Duke's for happy hour snax)
The parrot shop underneath the market
Bruce & Brandon Lee's graves at Lakeside Cemetary
The water tower at Volunteer Park
Soundgarden
The troll in Fremont
Evening all-ages action (Vera Project & Showbox are good for this)
Public art everywhere (storm drain covers, the International Fountain, kenetic instruments at the UW Hospital, etc etc)
The Ballard Locks & gardens on foot
Gasworks Park
Karoke at Bush Gardens
Re: I love visitors
Date: 2007-08-08 07:50 pm (UTC)some notes on it:
1.
I'd like to second the kayaking idea and suggest doing it on a weekday to avoid the worst of the power boat and jet ski crowd.
2.
I heard somewhere that the soundgarden is no longer accessible to the public. I don't know if this is true. might be worth checking out before schlepping out there. if you do check it out, let me know what you find.
3.
the Underground Tour is a lot of fun also. I also can pretty highly recommend the Argosy harbor tour. don't remember how the pricing compares to the Locks tour, but I found it (somewhat to my surprise) quite educational as well as picturesque. as touristy stuff goes, both are pretty good bang for your buck.
4.
plenty of good museum art (in addition to the public stuff mentioned above). the frye is free. asian art museum is pretty interesting.
5.
speaking of asian art, just walking around the ID for a while then paying a visit to the japanese garden down there is a pretty good afternoon. could also stop by uwajimaya, which can be fascinating for certain sorts of people.