Day 34: Savoring Seattle

We started the day off by taking Mr Ripley to a dog daycare place called Central Bark. We knew we wanted to see some things where we couldn't take him and he also needed some exercise.
Our intention was to go to Pike Place Market for awhile and then see some other sights. Well, you put two food lovers like us in a place like Pike Place Market and we aren't leaving very soon! The market is a wonderful, old place with stall after stall of interesting food vendors, places to eat, food related items and on and on. It is a big tourist attraction and has a somewhat touristy vibe but it's the real deal.
We wandered around for awhile and then had lunch at Emmett Watson's Oyster Bar which was a Roadfood rec. The weather was nice so we could sit outside in their pleasant courtyard. I had their sampler which contained 2 raw oysters, 3 boiled shrimp and a bowl of shrimp soup. Dwyne had their oyster stew. When we were wandering around we went in a place called Beecher's Handmade Cheese that my friend Jenny had suggested and while there I noticed a group who appeared to be on some sort of culinary tour. I found out it was with an organization called Savor Seattle and that there was another tour that afternoon. So guess how we spent our afternoon? The tour took us to a number of the different places in the market where we got to sample their special items and meet and talk with the owners or employees. We samples all sorts of wonderful things including a jicama spring roll from a Vietnamese place, crabcakes at the reknowned Etta's Restaurant, several varieties of smoked salmon from Pike Place Fish, wonderful, hot cinnamon sugar donuts from Daily Dozen Donuts, cheese and mac and cheese from the previously mentioned Beecher's and quite a few more places. We really enjoyed the tour and enjoyed talking to the other people on the tour.
So...we pretty much spent the entire day at Pike Place Market. Not a bad thing to do but now we only have one other day to see the rest of Seattle.
We were full from all the sampling we did on the tour but still went to dinner at a place on the water called Belle Street Diner. We got to sit outside on the harbor which was very nice. Dinner was fine but not mind boggling. After dinner we forgot about the fact that we were full and drove back to the Capitol Hill area and once more got ice cream from Mollie Moon's.
Tomorrow we're going to try and see some other sights around Seattle. Mr R is going back to Central Bark.