Starbucks, Seafood and Seagulls

 As you may know, Seattle is the home of Starbucks Coffee.  

In fact, it’s the home of the very first Starbucks.  

There are 8,791 company-operated and 6,250 licensed stores in the U.S. as of  2019.  World-wide, there are 31,256.  Quite a phenomenon from these humble beginnings.  They say there is always a line and today was no exception—so we got in line.  

It was drinks only, no pastries or breakfast sandwiches, but you could buy bags of coffee.  It was a small shop with only 5 employees, and they were efficient.  

Coffee in hand we strolled through the Pike Place Market one last time.  The bouquets of flowers were brilliant and very reasonably priced at $10.00.  

We found a Zoltar (Swami) but didn’t ask him any questions. 

 Lunchtime!  

We had seen Ivar’s the other day when we were looking for a place to have lunch.  

Today, it was the place.  We ordered fish and chips and fried clams, it was a hit!  

It was also a hit with the seagulls when Tom made some friends.  

As we were leaving Ivar’s I decided to sit down and have a little chat with Mr. Ivar. I did all the talking!

We have just about come to the end of our visit to Seattle.  Time to do laundry, pack and get ready to move on in the morning.  

Thanks, Seattle—You have a lot to offer!