Right now, I am staying in the Silver Cloud Hotel. There are no silver clouds around to marvel at, but there is green tea to sip on. Today, the two hour long flight to Seattle made me a little bit plane sick, but I had enough time to write some rough drafts and plot out some new questions that the prompt could possibly ask on the flight. It's a good thing that my mom, dad, and I all ended up making it to Seattle safe and sound. As soon as we got here, we hopped on a very eco-friendly looking " Courteous Bus" that took us to the place to pick up our ordered rented car.This gloomy afternoon, we got to visit the exciting Pike Place Market, the indoor Farmer's Market, and a bunch of other little stands where people sold drawn and photographed postcards of Seattle sceneries, colorful knitted messenger bags, beaded jewelry, seafood, wine, and a lot of yellow and orange tulips.

It was so amazing to visit the first ever opened Starbucks coffee shop today. My dad and I were both equally excited because we both love coffee so much in general. My mom just wanted to get pictures with any animal she saw-- like the horse that the policeman rid on and the statue of the big pig near the Farmer's market.

Throughout the entire day today, there were many family arguments and disagreements. We also got fined for this parking fee even after a pedestrian told us that the ticket we bought from before was fine. Who knew that Seattle had so many street rules? You could buy a ticket at one place, drive around the corner to park your car in a different spot, and that would be considered to be some kind of humongous crime because it's not counted as the same street even if it is within the same neighborhood--all resulting to a big fee that you will need to pay altogether later. So try not to trust all pedestrians and pay for every parking corner spot there is. 

Despite all of the trouble today, I just wanted to say that I really, really like the urban environment and the melancholy weather in Seattle. I would so very much like to stay here forever and explore more of the environment. It's like this place that's big but not too big, and small but not too small. Just right.