320 Miles down! Rain! Hooters!

Another Greyhound journey, another blog entry. We've just boarded the Greyhound south to Portland. It appears we sat next to the bus nutter, and there is a small child crying at the back AGAIN! I think this might be a constant theme on the Greyhounds, only time will tell. Guess we should get onto Seattle's adventures.

So after disembarking the Greyhound at Seattle, I found the hostel pretty quickly, reception quickly upgraded me from "only a room for tonight" to "a room for two nights, but you'll have to change room" then Rosie and Piers turned up and it was "a room for two nights, sharing with your friends". That evening we went and got a Burrito, Piers and Rosie gave me a present, which was a toy plastic ninja, and a toy soldier equipped with parachute. We went to bed fairly early that night, as we were pretty tired, and didn't really do anything constructive that evening, apart from try and get on the broken internet.

Saturday! We got up at 9ish, looked out the window, and it was cold and damp. Not a good start. We had breakfast and got ready and decided to start our day by going to Bainbridge Island, it started to rain. Sad times. We got the ferry which slowly swam its way over to the island, we disembarked and decided a walk around the "sea trail" would be a good start. This trail took some 15 minutes to complete, so we had a coffee in the town centre... and at that point we had pretty much done all Bainbridge island had to offer. It had been a lot better last time when it was hot sunny, and the sun was setting, this time it was just chucking it down with rain. We returned to the ferry to head back to Seattle, at least we got some nice photos of downtown on the return jouney. We returned to the arcade to win some more ninjas on the ball game thing Piers and Rosie had perfected. It was still raining heavily, but we decided it was time to get something to eat. Piers suggested Hooters, and me and Rosie were game, so that was our next stop, it was a fair walk away, but it looked like the rain had abbated, so we started our walk. About half through our walk it started to rain... a lot. Plus we kept having to stop to check we were heading the right way. by the time we got to Hooters we were soaked and tired. Hooters is obviously famous for its tacky orange deckor, and waitress who wear very little, tight tops and tiny tight shorts, and extremely sexist employment policy. But NOT its food. I had a chicken burger, and it was the worst meal I've had since I've been traveling. It tasted like the kind of thing you would feed a fussy kid who only likes fish fingers. Rosie ordered fish and chips, and essentially got fish fingers and chips. It did not look tasty. At least the food was cheap, we watched as one of the waitresses went bright red as she was forced to sing a birthday song to some guy in his 50's, and another creepy looking guy on another table kept letching at the girls. I don't think I would go back to one to be honest. It was essentially a cheesy strip club, with strip club standard food.... without the stripping. The rain stopped for 5 minutes, and we decided to head back home while we still could. It was evening by the time we got back to the hostel, and we played card games and drank some cheap beer. (12 Corona for $15! Bargain) got  a bit tipsy, watched an episode of south park, then it was pretty much time for bed, as we had been feeling really tired the whole day.

Today! We got up and the sun was out. We did a bit of window shopping, prices are so much cheaper here than in Canada. Clothes are essentially a third cheaper, and food and booze are also a lot cheaper. cigarettes are literally half the price. We headed back to the hostel, finally managed to get on the internet for 15 minutes. Then headed down to the greyhound and stood in the sun for half an hour while we waited for the bus.

No quotes, as I can't think of any good ones. Done and Done!