Seattle - May 10 & 11th

[tbb113]

Hi:

I am going to Seattle for a business trip on May 12th and decided to come up early and have the weekend for exploration.

I will be getting in around noon on Saturday, will be by myself and will have a car.

Any ideas of things I should do, places to eat, etc? Anybody want to meet for dinner on Saturday or lunch or Sunday (which is Mother's day)?

The business meeting is in Everett and I'm staying at the Embassy Suites in Lynwood (I think, the paperwork is at the office and I'm home).

Tyra

[tbb113]

I'm bumping this up...no ideas at all for what I should do with/by myself on a Saturday and Sunday? Any ayes/nays on the Underground Tour?

[wallycat]

We love PIke's Market, but during the spring/summer, it is crammed with people.

We've not done much else in the area...driven way up to Sequim and Port townsend and Bellingham....

sorry...
I know there's Chte. St. Michelle in the area, but not sure how far from Seattle

[magdon]

Check out this guide to Seattle, all by locals:
http://aallnet.org/committee/local03/

There is a large section on shopping (under "explore"). Restaurants are under "Necessities."

I really enjoyed the Underground Tour. On Sunday check out the Center for Wooden Boats, which offers free Lake Union sailboat rides on a historic wooden boats, Sundays at 2 pm. You may also rent boats (sail & paddle) by the hour (after a brief skills test). 1010 Valley Street, 206-382-2628. Or take a lakes cruise-- you can see the Sleepless in Seattle & Bill Gates's houses.

Chateau Ste. Michelle is on the east side, about 30-40 minutes to downtown, although from Lynnwood it might be less.

There is a Sur la Table in Pike Place. You can ride the monorail to/from downtown (the market is downtown) to the Space Needle.

Just so you know, Everett & Lynnwood are a good bit outside of downtown, I'd say at least 20-30 minutes. And downtown is about 20 minutes north of the airport.

That's all I can think of right now. I'm sure someone else will chime in.

[SusanL]

if you bump this up on Monday you might get more postings. I will watch for you and bump it if you don't get any posts. Wish I could help DH almost got a job there but that doesn't help

[SusanL]

anyone???

[Peggy C.]

Tyra I liked the Underground tour, but don't really remember any restaurants I went to. (it was about 13 years ago.)

[tbb113]

Magdon:

Thanks for the link. Printed out the restaurants and will check the shopping out later. Also the Center for Wooden Boats sounds great (depending on the weather).

Anybody else want to chime in?

Tyra

[AllieRae]

I know there is going to be a parade (and maybe more festivities?) when the USS Lincoln comes back into town - this will all happen in Everett.

Chateau Ste. Michelle and the Columbia Winery are both in Woodinville - about 10-15 minutes from Lynnwood. They are also next door to Redhook Brewery (bad food, good beer).

Other than that, Seattle Center usually has something going on. And Pike Place market wil most likely be crowded, but they throw more fish and are more entertaining when it's crowded. Watch out!

Allison

[tbb113]

One more bump before I leave on Saturday...

Thanks

Tyra

[naomike]

Hello! Actually, DH and I went on a very, very short trip to Seattle (sans kid) last month. We were only there for one full day, and I won't be all that much help because we stayed in the downtown area.

That said, we did the Pike Place Market thing, which we really enjoyed (the flowers there are so affordable--made me jealous) and we went to a couple of used bookstores within walking distance of the Market (another thing we like to do but don't get to lately due to the toddler factor).

We then walked around the waterfront area and went on a one-hour narrated harbor cruise (used our AAA card--it was about $10 or $12 a person?). It is of course much cheaper to just take a ferry ride to Bainbridge(sp?) but that would of taken longer. For lunch, we had clam chowder at Ivar's which was very close to the harbor cruise ride we had just taken.

We also took the monorail over to the Space Needle area and saw Ghosts of the Abyss on the IMAX because we knew it was something we wouldn't have a chance to do at home. It was worth seeing, but I'm sure that's something you'd like to do with your kids, if you haven't already.

For restaurants, I researched a couple of older threads here on the BB (type in Seattle Restaurant* or something like that and you'll see what I mean). Restaurants that came up again and again were Dahlia Lounge, Campagne, Chez Shea, Flying Fish, and a couple of others I just can't remember the names of (sorry--threw away the info by now). However, we bucked the system and instead went to an Italian restaurant across the street from the Dahlia Lounge called Assagio. It was good, and we had no complaints. However, if we had it to do over again, we probably would have tried Dahlia Lounge. We just weren't in a very adventurous mood that night . . .

Sorry, this is probably no help to you at all since we were very focused on places to go and eat that were within walking distance of our hotel, but I thought I'd mention it all anyways! Hope you have a great time.

Naomi

P.S. Edited to say I just redid the BB search myself and two other restaurants I was trying to think of were the Icon Grill and Wild Ginger. And, it looks like Assagio was mentioned in passing on this BB but no one focused on it. We had gotten the info on Assagio from some other searches we had done on the internet.