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We packed up from our shady hotel (and I don't mean a place away from the sun) and drove to downtown Seattle.
We were able to find another hotel for the next few nights to use as our base camp, we were lucky, they had a couple of consecutive nights available for use.

It has a great view of Seattle's Space Needle, and it's a short walk to the Armory with the mono-rail, which will take us into the Seattle Core.

We spent the day checking out some of the sights and sounds, we took in the Aquarium, Pikes Place, and we got to try a tall cup of joe from the first Starbucks.

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