My final day in Seattle was, to say the least, busy! Kendra and I woke up at our hotel which was stationed right next to Safco Field. So, naturally our first stop of the day was to take a tour of Safeco Field, the Mariners home stadium.

Safeco Field in Seattle

The tour was mediocre, and gave a lot of history of general hall of fame baseball players, but we got to go to the owners skybox, the press room, the locker room, the dugout and finally the field. That was a pretty neat experience!

Me on the field at Safeco Field

Next stop was a location deemed by CNN one of the most germiest tourist attractions in the world, second only to the Blarney stone – the Seattle Gum Wall! The Gum Wall is a brick wall with undress of thousands of pieces of gum, with new ones added every day. It was quite a disgusting site indeed, but mesmerizing at the same time.

Seattle Gum Wall

Seattle Gum Wall Closeup - Yuk!

Next it was off to the Seattle Center, which is the home of the Space Needle, the Experience Music Project, the Pacific Science Center and other “touristy” things. Now keep in mind that most, if not all of this was built for the 1962 Worlds Fair, and much of it hasn’t been really renovated since then. One exception to this was the Experience Music Project, a music exhibit and interactive museum. (here is some more info on the project)

Later we went to the top of the Stratosphere Space Needle! What a view!

Top of the Space Needle

We finished the night at a popular local burger joint called Dick’s. It’s no In-N-Out, but it wasn’t bad! Finally the time came to say farewell to Seattle as I jumped on a red-eye flight from Seattle to Charlotte.

Tomorrow is stop number 2: Charlotte, North Carolina!

*NOTE: I just wanted to say that I took most of the photos in this blog. There are a few (such as the Boeing plant) that are stock photos that I wasn’t able to get. All stock photos (if need be) will be marked from here on out.