Seattle Trip 2010

So Spring Break has started for me and so my parents wanted to bring the family out on a trip. This trip would be the last trip that our family will take as a group of 3 individually moving bodies XD

ok so to start off, we left the house at 7am to go to Seattle. First things first, crossing the border. Now my history teacher was totally right about "Fortress America" security is tight and they want to get as much information out of you as possible. This was how the conversation with the American border patrol went.
BP: Hello there
Dad: Hello
BP: May I see your documents please
Dad: yup *hands passport*
BP: What is the purpose of your visit to the United States?
Dad: Vacation
BP: Where do you intend to go?
Dad: Seattle
BP: What particularly draws you to Seattle?
Dad: It's beautiful, never been there before
BP: Bringing any alcohol or tobacco?
Dad: No
BP: Planning to bring back any fruits or vegetables? Peaches, lemons, limes, cabbages?
Dad: No
BP: What is your occupation in Canada?
Dad: *cannot disclose*
BP: Here are your documents sir have a wonderful day here in the United States

Now after that I was thinking....WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD HIDE A BOMB INSIDE CABBAGES?...

So after crossing the border we first hit a small town and mannn it gave the most awesome first impression of America. The first house that I saw was the ones that you see from old American movies. It had fading light blue paint, made of wood and it had the American flag hanging and a front porch. The best part about this picture was that there was an old white man sitting in a rocking chair in the front porch. He was very fat and he had a shotgun in his hand on his lap. That was the first impression of America for me.

As I pressed on to the highway I found that I was running over more and more rodents that have already been road killed. My mom was just like OH NO OH NO OH NO OH NO LOOK OUT LOOK OUT LOOK OU- OHHHHH YOU ARE SOOOOOOOO CLEANING THAT UP WHEN WE GET HOME......
by the way the change from km/h to mph was totally confusing @.@ and also, on the highway there are lots of very nosy police officers around everywhere.

So by around 5pm we arrived at Seattle, and once we got there my GPS system just went extremely mad....it went like this
*I'm going in a straight line"
-turn right at next 500m - recalculating - turn left at next 200 - turn left - recalculating - keep left for the next 1.8km then take the right exit - recalculating.....

*I'm turning around in the city*
-turn right at next 200m - turn right - *turns right* - recalculating - turn right, then turn right, then turn right - "ARE YOU KIDDING ME"

and eventually it made me mad so we used the old school map to find our hotel.

First night we went around China Town and I must say the first impression was pretty good actually. Considering China Town's the most ghetto place of all cities, the people in China Town after 6pm were quite normal and even nice. People were holding the doors opened and stuff and no sign of druggies and all so I was quite pleased, except when I asked this one person where I could find the nearest ATM he said "there's one 2 blocks away from here but that's not good, so there's one 4 blocks away from here, that one's quite safe" I'm like "SAFE?? O.O"

2nd day, we decided to walk the coast of the city along all the Piers. I just gotta say, everything about that place was AWESOME scenery was stunning, and even the smell was so fresh. One of the most memorable part of that place was this restaurant that had a tradition of its customers feeding the seagulls with fries...and turns out what happens is that the sea gulls circle the restaurant and people throw fries at the sea gulls and they catch it and they nom nom nom it up and it was quite entertaining XD plus the halibut was amazing. Afterwards we went to the aquarium and then to the Pudget Market where we saw lots of intense fishes being sold and finally back to our hotel to rest. After my parents woke up from their nap, we took the car out to the Westfield mall where I MET A FAN!!! He showed me around the mall and took me to Guitar Center (music HEAVEN) where we get to pick out any guitars or instruments around the store and we get to try them out however we like. It was SO awesome. Afterwards, that concluded day 2

Day 3, we took the car to the Space Needle to take some scenery pictures. Then we went to take a cruise which took a while actually. We got to see many....boats XD and floating homes as well as rich famous people's houses such as Bill Gates and the CEO of Starbucks. I gotta say Bill Gate's house was smaller than I would've imagined...after the cruise we went back to our hotel to rest. At night me and my old man went up the Space Needle again to take some night scenery which were BEAUTIFUL!! That concluded our 3rd day

4th day we left Seattle to go home. On the way we went past Richmond and Vancouver and I have to say....RICHMOND WAS SCARY!!! It was wayyy too many Chinese people.....It wasn't any different from Hong Kong....it was creepy...and finally we got home.

Whew so yea that was my trip for this Spring Break haha