Seattle Recap

Seattle was amazing. There were so many great people and great shops. I spent most of my time in Pike’s Marketplace where I talked to the Street Performers. There was a stand where a girl was selling jewelry and I asked her if there was anything going on I should check out that night. She listed off some events and I asked her if she would like to go to one of them with me… she was taken. It was still a nice response, we both smiled and I walked away.

I got tired of walking around and I decided to sit down next to this girl selling hemp jewelry, I asked if it was alright beforehand. We talked and she just got to Seattle a week prior and during our conversation her boyfriend came up. I figured why not make two new friends and talked to him for a while too. They traveled together from St. Louis down through a bunch of states including Arizona (stayed in Flagstaff for a while) and then went through Oregon (stayed in Portland) and now they are in Seattle. Their names were Mitch and Lilly.

I asked them why they don’t try to set something up next to a street performer to have the music draw the people in to buy their jewelrly, and apparently you need 30 dollars for a permit (I don’t know over what time frame) to be able to set anything up down there. He told me that not many people were buying their jewelry so he turns to pan handling as well. He also mentioned that people don’t believe he asks the money for food, so then he lies to them and asks money for alcohol and drugs. You have to love America, where you get money for destroying yourself, but none for preserving yourself.

There was an amazingly beautiful girl who was a street performer (played the accordion and sang). I saw her on Friday for a very short time, so figured I would stop by again Saturday to try and get pictures of her. I found her getting a cup of coffee at one of the shops and told her I saw her for a bit yesterday but didn’t get a chance to take pictures. I asked if she would be playing today and told me where/when. I showed up a little before she went on and took some pictures of the guy that went on prior to her. When she came up we exchanged smiles and I took pictures. Half of the ones I took of her were gone when I reviewed them later, all of the ones when I switched angles actually. I am disappointed because I had some of the better shots from the other side.

That was my trip in a nutshell. I am going through all of the pictures still, I am going to upload them to my flickr set titled Seattle when I am done. Here are some for now.

The gypsy girl I like