Seattle Vacation: Exploring Fremont and Gas Works Park

Monday, June 29, 2009

It was an exhausting day! I’m now staying with Scotty in Seattle and so this morning I took the bus with him over to University of Washington where he works/is in grad school. I toured around a bit while he worked and saw the fountain, red square, a Washington statue, the quad, and some other random statues sprinkled throughout campus. I grabbed a coffee at the coffee shop at the physics building and then we met back up for lunch and got some delicious Thai food.

He went back to work so I grabbed a bus to Fremont…which is, by the way, probably the most Val-friendly area in America. Just sayin’. Fremont not only has topiary dinosaurs, not only has a giant rocket ship, not only has a statue of Lenin (that was advertising Taco Del Mar)…but also has a gigantic bridge troll! How in the world can that be topped?

Space rocket in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.

Lenin statue in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.

Fremont: the Center of the Universe

Waiting for the Interurban in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.

Fremont troll under a bridge in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.

Fremont troll under a bridge in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.

Fremont troll under a bridge in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.

Fremont troll under a bridge in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.

So I spent most of the afternoon touring around Fremont and being enamored by the sheer amazingness of it…and then I headed over to Gas Works Park which is a big green park offset with all these huge gas tanks. Pretty neat. Also neat was that there was a glorious view from there of the city skyline. Glorious.

Gas Works Park in Seattle, Washington.

Gas Works Park in Seattle, Washington.

Gas Works Park in Seattle, Washington.

Gas Works Park in Seattle, Washington.

Gas Works Park in Seattle, Washington.

Gas Works Park in Seattle, Washington.

Then I headed back to Northgate to meet Scott for an all you can eat sushi dinner. And boy did I all I could eat…and boy am I stuffed…

Travel to Seattle Washington. Exploring the Fremont neighborhood and Gas Works Park.

Bucket List: See the Fremont Troll in Seattle, Washington.