Getting Lost Downtown

I don't have any food pictures to show, because I had a crazy day yesterday. I took some free writing classes at the library last year, but so far in 2016 there really haven't been any. Until yesterday, I found one at the downtown branch, and let's just say that was an adventure. I used to work downtown, in pioneer square, so I'm not unfamiliar with downtown, but at the same time it's been a few years since I've walked around downtown. But, I got some pictures of some cool things, and I have to say I still feel dorky taking pictures in public, but I'm feeling less and less dorky. I guess practice really does make perfect!

This is a pretty little nature area that is right in front of my apartment. This is also the back drop for a bus stop right outside of my apartment. I love that Seattle is so green year-round. I think that fact alone really helped my mood. Erie is already a dirty, ugly city, and in the winter months when everything is dead and grey, it was just too much.

I don't know if this is an elevator, or what, but it has these beautiful circles of color glass, and it reminds of a deconstructed stained glass window or something. I am a HUGE lover of stained glass.

I tried to catch the actual monorail, but alas it was an elusive creature. But, there are the monorail tracks(?) along with a double decker bus!!! That is a new thing to me, these didn't exist when I lived here before. I need to ride a double decker bus.

There is a veggie grill downtown! I know there used to be a loving hut, which unfortunately closed before I moved back. I was kicking myself because I didn't bring any money with me, except for bus fare, and a few dollars to give to homeless people. I always fear losing my money downtown because I can get flustered very easily. At the point that I stumbled across this, I was lost so I'll have to google the address, but I will make it down there for food. I feel like the luckiest girl in the world to live in a city with a veggie grill! And there were tons of people going in and out! Woot Woot!

This is not the best picture, at this point I was super lost trying to find a bus home, and I was really overwhelmed with the crowds, smells, and just general noise. But if you look closely, this store had all the beautiful old sewing machines as a window display.

And finally I found my way home. I took this picture from the window of the bus. Look at the mountains in the background!

And I got to come home to my cozy little feline family, and all was right in the world. Or should I say write in the world!