36 Hours in the Emerald City, part 1: http://t.co/pEbjrm9XS4 #vegan #YAlit #seattle pic.twitter.com/3F61qZo9RF
— Camille DeAngelis (@cometparty) June 17, 2015

Check out the jaunty minotaur! This hipster-y restaurant also had plastic chicken carcasses hanging in the window, which of course I found far less amusing.
Magical glass at @chihulygg. #seattle (cc @cyndyaleo) pic.twitter.com/rxmZOgLU9G
— Camille DeAngelis (@cometparty) June 10, 2015
After landing in Seattle I grabbed a falafel sandwich and headed to the Chihuly Exhibition, which Cyndy Aleo recommended. It’s quite pricey at $25, but it’s such a unique and wonderful place that I still have to talk it up.

There is a very similar tall green glass spiky thing in the courtyard at the MFA, and now I know who made it!

Awesome bottle-opener collection at the fancy restaurant at the Chihuly Exhibition. (I did not eat there.)
After the Chihuly I decided to hop on an uptown bus to my AirBnB, shower and rest for a bit before heading out to dinner at the Wayward Vegan Café (see previous post). The neighborhood is so charming, it was a treat just walking around taking photos of the flowers in people’s front yards.
The next morning I took a leisurely walk around Green Lake. The circuit is 2.8 miles long.

Green Lake. A second after taking this photo a jogger came up and asked me to take a pic of him with this background. I apologized for my lack of fluency with whatever special app he was using on his iPhone—”I don’t have a smartphone”—and he said, “That is an awesome thing about you.” Perfect stranger refers to the existence of many more awesome things there just isn’t time to hear about. I am not entirely sure a sweet little interaction like this would have happened on the East Coast.
Totally living this definition of gratitude on my flash vacation. #seattle pic.twitter.com/j2DX7Om5xt — Camille DeAngelis (@cometparty) June 10, 2015
Randomly beautiful. #seattle pic.twitter.com/PmSVIpquZK — Camille DeAngelis (@cometparty) June 17, 2015

Such a lovely evening. Photos thanks to Kristin Foster.
Love the Minotaur and the bottle opener with the large open mouth!
That last picture of you really captures who you are 🙂
I need to go!