Seattle

That's the Peace Arch at the Canada/US border. Check out that traffic! We were in line for an hour to cross the border.

And there you have it; entrance to 'the land of the free'... or so they say.

Mount Baker, shot from the grounds of the music festival we went to. You can see this US mountain from most places in Vancouver too. Looks pretty cool I think.

The Red Hot Chilli Peppers were kind of a let-down sadly. Plus I was starving coz I couldn't stomach the disgusting festival food. I threw out an $US 8 chicken noodle dish after 1 bite.

Plus we had pretty poor lawn tickets so we spent our time in the beer garden. We missed seeing Wolfmother so we drank the night away. Or at least I would have if the $US 7 beers were any good. Not the best festival I've been to.

Ahh, Seattle. Home of Frasier (YAY!) and Starbucks (BOO!). It's a cool city and reminds me a lot of Melbourne actually. I've added it to the list of US cities to live in should the need arise.

The Seattle Space Needle. Remember it from the Frasier titles? Looks cool but just kinda sticks up out of nothing on the edge of the city.

The best bus poster I've ever seen!!! A picture of a cute little girl eating a RAT and the caption next to it said; "Kissing a smoker can be just as bad" AWESOME!!!!!

The famous Seattle fish markets. The guys here throw the fish to each other across the room and to the customers. Pretty cool show. People come to watch it even if they're not buying fish.

A cool little alley-way just like in Melbourne. Not sure what that woman sitting in the background is doing though :)

I found buildings similar to ones back home. This looks like the Masonic Centre building in Sydney (note the tapered base)

Federation Square anyone? I wonder who copied who?

Lots of American cars have 'ribbon' stickers on the back. A closer inspection reveals that many of them are about national pride or support for the troops or some other freaky, naive or war-related idea. Disturbing.

Left to right: 'Navy', 'Proud American', 'Land of the free because of the brave'. There is a strong anti-America culture in Canada and I must say I'm sitting firmly on that band-wagon myself. I love the people (generally) but what a messed up nation it is!