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Hello from Seattle and happy July 4th!

Well I have been busy (as usual when I'm on vacation). We flew JetBlue from JFK to Seattle and were pretty impressed. For a discount carrier I think they have more free stuff than most traditional airlines flying domestically in the US. Dunkin Donuts coffee, animal crackers, blue terra chips, etc.

One strange thing was that because of a nut allergy on board they asked everyone not to eat nuts. A woman in our row said she couldn't eat her sandwich because the bread had nuts in it. I'm no doctor, but how can me eating a nut kill someone else? My only guess is that nut particles in the air could bother the other person or something.

Anyway, the flight was fine. Seattle has been pretty good and last night we saw fireworks from the space needle observation deck which was neat. We've also found a good restaurant (Wild Ginger) and done an underground tour (strongly recommended and fairly interesting but not that great).

Now I'm off to the Pike Street market. It's quite a trek from the Chambered Nautilus B&B to downtown Seattle - maybe 20 minutes walk to the bus and then 20 minutes ride to downtown. My wife got pretty mad that I didn't book something more central but the people are nice and the food is fine so she's feeling better now.

Tomorrow I'll try to blog from the cruise ship.

Posted by James Trotta at July 6, 2008 2:15 AM | TrackBack