Seattle - 12.03. - 15.03.

On my first day in Seattle i went to a free Walking Tour through the City. Our first stop was at the famous Market hall in San Francisco. This Market Hall offers a big variety of all different kinds of fresh food. The nice thing about it, is that at most of the Market stands they offer you small samples to try their products :D.  I swear: You could spend the whole day on this market eating samples, it's so good and so much fun!

Market Hall in Seattle

One special thing about the Market Hall in Seattle is the floor. It consists of many small little tiles. In the past you were able to buy one of these tiles and write something on it, like for example your name! Some tiles contain the names of very famous people. The tile we are standing at on the next picture for instance contains the name of Bill Gates!

Inside the market hall there was a "realistic" picture of the tallest man who had ever lived. I think
he was about 2.70 meters tall. Well just to remember this i was standing next to him and let a picture taken, to see how much taller he is compared to me. I just have to mention, that i myself am around 1.90 meters tall, but compared to this guy i look like a dwarf ;).

After our visit of the Market hall, we went to a street were all the walls were ruined with gums. This looked horribly and interesting (very colorful) at the same time. The tour guide told us, that in this theatre there was a improvisation theatre. The play of this night was only 5 dollars, so me and some of the people making the tour decided to go to this theatre in the evening.

street where all walls are covered with eaten gums

After the city tour, me and some people who made the tour with me decided to go to the "Pike" Brewery for another free tour through the brewery. The following pictures shows me and my mates at the end of the tour.

me and some tour mades at the end of the "Pike Brewery" tour

After the Brewery Tour we went to one of these High Rise Buildings, because the tour guid from the morning had told us that there is a star bucks in this tower, where you can go for free and see the city.
The Starbucks should have been on the 40th floor, but as we arrived there, there was no Star Bucks. However, we had gotten in for free and still had a nice view on the city which was great! :)

Seattle as seen from one of the Towers

After walking around through the city all day long we went back to the hostel, where we drank the beer which we had bought for a special discount from the brewery tour. After we were finished with the beer i felt really drunk, but we had to go to this improvisation theatre, were we wanted to meet some more people from the city walking tour in the morning.
The improvisation theatre was a nice surprise. As expected the admission was only 5$. We all walked into the theatre and sat down, expecting the improvisation play to begin. Then the show moderator showed up. He was carrying a big bucket of small little cards. He started walking around in the audience and giving away these cards to the people sitting in the audience. In the end there was only one card left. Because noone wanted to take it voluntarely i sacrificed myself and took the card.
Then it got exciting. What noone of us would have expected, is that these cards were made to sort out teams for improvisation acting. The improvisation theatre this evening should have been made and acted by the audience. There were like 3 teams infront of me which did a great job. Then they finally called the name on my card and i had to go to the stage. Because i still felt really drunk, i was not really knowing was i was doing. This was so embarrassing. Nevertheless me and my teammate seemed to do a good job all in all, because people were laughing. Although it felt for me like the teammate was doing all the hard work and i was just standing there and reacting to what he was offering.
After our trip to the theatre we all went together to an irish pub, with a local from Seattle who we had met in the theatre. He he, so in this pub we were sitting, talking and drinking and so on. After a while i went to the waitress to ask her whether she could take another photo of us. Then she responded to me with the voice of a man : " I am not a barmaid!!!". LOL then i realized that this was not the waitress but just a dragqueen who looked very simliar to the waitress. However, finally i found the real waitress and she took the photo of us which you can see here :)