About a year ago I drove my wife to downtown Seattle to a networking event for her Executive Coaching business.
We came together to downtown Seattle because it saves time on the drive aa we were able to use the carpool lane and I was providing the security from and to the parking garage.
It was a beautiful evening and I took my four and a half year old phone Samsung S20 FE and went for a photowalk along waterfront in downtown Seattle
I used to work in Downtown Seattle four days a week and would go for a jog from my building to the waterfront and all the way to the Olympic Sculpture Park:
I would jog up to a place in this waterfront park that had a pull-up bar and bars where I would do pull-ups and dips.
In the picture above you see another sculpture from the park as well as one of the most famous Seattle landmarks: the Space Needle.
Seattle has changed a lot in the last four years, they really built out the waterfront park after taking down the ugly structure that was known as a Viaduct.
They replaced it with an underground tunnel that was created using a giant boring machine called Bertha.
Even my mother was a part of that project as she worked for the city of Seattle at the time.
Waterfront also has a bunch of cruise ships as well as bots that take you to Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.
They also have big ships that take you on Alaska cruises as well as smaller cruise ships for the shorter cruises around the Puget Sound.
A lot of the buildings on the waterfront are new. For example I have not seen the structure above back when I used to work downtown.
The structure below of Seattle Aquarium is also new, though we did come with our daughter here after Covid:
The aquarium has a nice display of various fishes as well as other aquatic animals and frogs.
One thing that never changes in Seattle is that there is basically no free parking, but at least these days there are a lot more spaces in the parking garages and it is much easier to park.
In the far distance you see the two stadiums: baseball field and football field where Seattle Seahawks play.
In the distance you can see the Seattle Wheel, also a fairly new structure on the waterfront in downtown Seattle, but it has been around for a while prior to Covid and we took a ride on it more than once.
And in these last two images you see the ferry coming into Seattle.
It was a very nice walk which brought a lot of memories going back to 1999 when I first arrived in Seattle after graduating from the University of Kansas with a masters in Accounting and Management of Information Systems.
I was working in one of the office towers on September eleven when the planes hit twin towers in Manhattan and we continued working despite fears that some of the planes were headed for downtown Seattle at the time.
I was also working as a consultant in downtown Seattle when I got a call from my wife at the time that I need to get back home and drive her to the hospital as our son was about to be born.
That was around six in the evening on a Sunday. And I remember my boss saying that they are expecting me to be back on Tuesday. Things have really changed since then and I no longer work for that company and my son is going to be twenty-four this November...