himalayan blackberry

day 4: himalayan blackberry, college of charleston, and the locks and ladder
i met up with the college of charleston alternative spring break.
they have been working with a plant nursery and a forest restoration group.

we went to discovery park and uprooted hundreds of invasive himalayan blackberry bushes.

we visited the dam in ballard & saw boats go through the locks & the fish ladder so salmon can travel through the dam.

for dinner we had bubble tea and more pho.
after a long bus ride home i made it back to jessie's.

a good time with old friends

day #3: gyspy coffee (round II) and an afternoon with old friends
jessie and i woke up and enjoyed tea and video games

mike (jessie's boy), jessie, and i went to gypsy coffee for a second time.
we played scrabble (mike won by 9 points, sadly).
we went across town to ballard and met up with carly and becca.

they are old friends that i met at l'abri.

we ate pho, the infamous asian soup.
after short walk we were at the doorstep of carly and becca's house.
it is an adorable basement loft.
we drank coffee and ate dark chocolate and enjoyed a great conversation.

scrabble and coffee

day 3:

a long walk to jessie's all-time favorite coffee shop, gypsy coffee.
we played hours of scrabble and then caught the bus to a burrito shop across town.

followed up by an evening of school work and procrastination at zoka's coffee roaster.

the rainy city

yesterday was day 1 in seattle (update):
cloudy and cool.

morning coffee at http://www.zokacoffee.com/ which is one of jessie's frequent coffee stops and conveniently a block from her house.
we explored downtown seattle and pike's place.

lots of fish and flowers.
we packed our lunch and picnicked over looking the puget sound and snow-covered mountains.
we thrifted in capitol hill and enjoyed some delicious vegetarian asian food.

the evening was topped off with knock-off sour patch kids and sex and the city.

a trip to seattle.

in exactly one week i will be boarding a plane to fly across the united states,.
i will be landing in seattle to meet up with various people.
my friend and roommate from last year.  students from my school.  old friends from l'abri.
i don't really have any plans yet other than bumming around the city and visiting their coffee shops.
i will probably end up blogging about some of them. its a little cliche, but that is the point.
so if you know of any other interesting things to do in seattle let me know.

hope and union coffee

 

located at 199 st. philip street

dan and i went a few days ago and had a great time sitting on the deck.

the coffee is great and the setting is refreshing.

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