Apart from that, I have seen the famous flying fish (Pike Place Market - apparently anyone who has been to business school has heard about these flying fish). They are thrown around by these gentlemen, one of whom gave me some free crab (ok no jokes):
The hills are pretty steep here too, but not as steep as they used to be. (Warning: history lesson) After a massive fire in 1889 the founders of the city decided to do some earthworks to level the hills out. They didn't do a great job as the hills are still worse than Wellington. However the shopkeepers were in such a hurry to rebuild that they got started before the earthworks did. They went ahead and built, but put the fancy entrances to their shops on the 2nd (or even 3rd) floors, and basic ones on the bottom. When the earthworks were done a year or two later the ground floors were filled in with the dirt and the 2nd floor (and in some cases the 3rd) became the new ground level, with the entrances all ready. These are the remains of the original ground floors below (now underground).
Weird..but not as weird as the fact that apparently they ran out of money partway through, so for a year or so they had the roads at one level and the footpaths and shops a storey lower .. so to cross the road you had to climb a ladder up to street level ... and back down the other side ???
Weird..but not as weird as the fact that apparently they ran out of money partway through, so for a year or so they had the roads at one level and the footpaths and shops a storey lower .. so to cross the road you had to climb a ladder up to street level ... and back down the other side ???
