google said today was going to be Sunshine all day today but it is Seattle we woke up
and it was clear skies you can see the city you could see the mountains in the background
by the time we got ready to walk the dog and walk downstairs we were covered in fog yeah
Cloud fog Mist it's crazy fogginess fogginess but today hopefully it clears so we can see
all of the Seattle sites starting with Starbucks Reserve Roastery which I'm super excited for
we're staying at the top of Capitol Hill and as you descend lower down into the city the
Smoky breath comes it gets so much colder I like it
this is fancy
I'm overwhelmed
so we just learned that this coffee roasting house was the first one ever for Starbucks
and they do so much volume here that they're supplying like parts of Southeast Asia central
America South America and the entire country of India how insane is that and it's all coming
from this place right here they did two million pounds of roasted coffee last year two million
pounds how many elephants is that
like I can't even picture that it was the heaviest thing I can think of so I read online
at their website the if Willy Wonka was to go into coffee this is what he would have
created it's just nuts here they have the huge Vats of coffee that they're roasting
there's an entire like espresso cocktail bar like every coffee cocktail you can think of
is made there an entire Italian Pizzeria Bakery canol is everything as well as like an experience
bar and just regular coffees so overwhelming but very classy at the same time Willy Wonka
it's all bright colors and Oompa Loompas whereas this is like jazz music and Cedarwood and
it's so big when you enter you get given a map that looks like something from Harry Potter
to show you around the whole place there's a library there's a library in here as well
that's a library
thing about where your beans have come from Ethiopia what a good size
not a coffee expert so it just tastes like a nice iced coffee to me I think it's really
cool that they give you this they also have them all displayed on the wall so you can
see like every option possible so not only does it tell you where your coffee is from
but it gives you some on the back realize this but Ethiopia is the country that discovered
coffee a thousand years ago a goat herder whose flopped through energetic while eating
from an unusual shrub
Wow that was really strong really really strong coffee ready for the day now yeah next thing
we're doing is actually trying to steal something but legally walking out without technically
paying it's really cool we saw it on YouTube as well it's gonna feel like we're stealing
something but we're not but yeah
now we don't have a SIM card so I'm not sure how this is going to work but we have come
to the Amazon go store which is like a no employee walk-in walkout store where you check
out just through AI somehow
it's so weird what do you want to steal somehow tracking us we are now in store somehow all
of these machines above our head are tracking us and will determine what we pick up put
back and charge us just as we walk out so crazy to me what do you want to grab it feels
like we're stealing how will they track baked goods without a barcode you take it out as
well
let's walk out without paying
now it's like we walked out behind him how will it know that it's us not him it feels
like we just stole such a weird concept I wonder if that will work will be charged for
the baked goods will the gun that went out before us be charged accidentally will this
whole shop concept take off and be the way of the future so weird but just down the corner
is something equally as weird in my mind
these are the Amazon spheres which is where people work and we really wanted to go in
but they're only open to the public like the first and third Saturday of each month and
you have to book at least 15 days in advance to be able to go in from the photos I've seen
online and like looking through the windows it's kind of giving like Changi Airport Vibes
and there's also Bananas
which seems weird but I think you can just grab a free banana
any Amazon employee is allowed to just go in and work from there so it's not like I
signed desks or anything you just if you want to work from the Spheres you come and work
for the Spheres how cool is that you get free bananas Monday to Friday that's profit we
just had one of the nicest security guards of all time tell us that we weren't allowed
to film at the Spheres which is fair enough so we've just gone to the street we can see
our next destination right in front of us probably the most iconic thing there is here
in the whole city we are still on a budget though so we will be enjoying the view from
the outside and not going up
we cannot afford the $30 something it's going to cost to get up the top there so we need
someone to tell us it's not worth it please
just for one experience okay good decision not to go in I read online that the idea of
the Space Needle was that it was going to be to see out of what the Eiffel Tower was
to Paris kind of is like iconic I got an email we were in the Amazon shop for six minutes
and 50 seconds they're working on our receipt I hope they got it right I kind of hope they
didn't get it right it'd be more exciting I feel like they definitely got it right you
wouldn't release a product like that without make Insurance yeah
The Space Needle was built in 1962 for the World's Fair guess how much it costs 1.4 Bill?
4.5 million dollars in 1962 and then in 2018 it was renovated guess the cost of that
$100 million dollars and it's privately owned money bags you must just be like oh yeah my
family owns the space needle
turns out there's a lot more than just a space needle here this is like a science center
thing they've got laser domes and I think I saw like an IMAX movie theater I think we
need to go this way to like the Olympic Sculpture Park thing okay oh you can see all the tiny
people
we've come to the olympic sculpture park mainly because it's on the water and our next goal
is to kind of walk along the coast but I didn't think we would be treated to the views of
the mountains and the ship and all the sculptures around here are pretty cool so it's a perfect
place to have a little bit of a picnic from our Amazon go haul technically a free donut
because the charge hasn't come through yet
this is very good I had so many donuts in America yesterday we spent way too much money
on our food tour so today we are trying to spend as little as possible we've had the
coffees we have these maybe one or two other things that'll cost money and hopefully that's
it so this is lunch dinner will probably be two minute noodles she says that but she also
got the most expensive packet of chips known to man let's see if we can find the water
oh goodness I found it is right there see it's actually right over there the water I
found it let's see if we can get down to the water
such Clear Water I did not expect that the last thing on our Seattle tour list is to
go and see these houses that are like covered in flowers don't know why but it looks pretty
cool but to get there we have to walk all the way along the coast till we get to a water
taxi which would take us across to that side of the Bay
water taxes are cool
in some year there was a ship coming from Alaska and it dropped in this pier and it
had a ton of gold on it one ton of gold that's so much gold
turns out I died we died all right let's go turns out mineers landing is like part Museum,
part restaurants and part arcade this place was very very unexpected but pretty cool then
we got like another five minute walk to get to the wharf where the water taxi should leave
from go check that out
turns out the water taxi to Alki is about double the price that we were expecting to
pay so we're gonna put the budget first call it a day but we've had I've had a great day
in Seattle weird miners Landing seeing the little space needle guy I think just go home
cuddle the puppies eat some Ramen actually I have leftover mac and cheese I'm gonna eat
that