Another big day of walking we are hitting an average of 16,000 steps a day which is helping to reduce the impact of the beer and fries we are having pretty regularly..in my dreams.

To get downtown each day we travel through the Seattle Centre which is a bit of a hub for the Queen Anne neighbourhood which I would describe as being a fringe theatre district for Seattle. As well as having the Space Needle there are a number of museums, as well as small theatres and exhibitions that I would have loved to have visited. I really hope to get back to Seattle again and have loved where we are staying as our surroundings have been great and the staff really lovely and helpful.

As well as loads of fabulous contemporary art here in Seattle there are a load of food vans, well I guess they are everywhere now aren’t they? The smells of Seattle are just fabulous (thank goodness they fixed that sewerage problem when they rebuilt) with so many choices and they change every day. There was a fantastic little Indian cart which smelt particularly divine and they served different dishes each day today was chicken tikka as well as a veggie dish yummo! But even with this and ad so many options available to us we chose to have our last lunch at the Cheesecake Factory.

It took me back to our last night in Los Angeles in 2011 when the show The Big Bang Theory was relatively new and we had dinner at the local Cheesecake Factory. Mum and I were reminiscing about that lovely night just before we headed off on this trip.

Lunch was good fun, great food and because we were close to the kitchen we could hear the machinations behind the scenes which included a very loud screaming match between a chef and a waiter. Very entertaining and according to our waitress the fight was not unusual – who knew there was so much passion behind the scenes at the Cheesecake Factory (not me).

Just a few blocks away was possibly my Seattle highlight – the Seattle Central Library. This building was built in 2004 (there were two on this site previously) and it is magnificent, I could have spent the day there. The library is eleven floors high with lots of glass and steel, has 699 employees and more than 1 and a half million (yes million) books. On each of the floors (which appear to be floating) there are little nooks to read or research with each floor having a different theme, so it could be children’s or teens, genealogy records, historical records about Seattle or oral history collections. There is kind of a spiral effect with books going between floors it’s just amazing and it is so far removed from what we have come to expect from a library. Apparently this building is loathed as much as loved – no surprise which camp I am firmly in.

I thought I’d finish this post, my last from Seattle with pictures of some of the wonderful places we have been and things we have seen. It is a really fabulous town and I’ll be back!