10.08.06

Back in Canada

Posted in Canada at 4:25 pm by AB

Hello All,

Well the 12 month period has come and gone and i am no longer in Canada on a work permit. I am now simply just a tourist in this great country.

I spent the last few days in Seattle, Washington mainly to do to some more Mariners games (three in three days). I have become quite the baseball fan in the last 12 months and was keen to check out my newly adopted team in action a few more times. I have now seen 4 games at Safeco Field and the Mariners are yet to disappoint me yet. The highlight included Richie Sexon jacking a walk off grand slam in the bottom of the 10th to break a 1-1 tie and win the game for the Mariners. Also I sat in row one for one of the games right near first base which was awesome. No netting to protect yourself so you just have to watch every pitch so do don’t lose a whole row of teeth.

As a bonus while i was there, the spanish powehouse soccer club Real Madrid were in town to play an pre-seaon match against DC United, a team from the US MLS. I’m not much of a soccer fan, but as a sports lover how could you pass up the chance to see one of the world’s biggest clubs. Raul, Beckham, Emerson, Van Nistelrooy, Cannavaro etc… 66,000 people at the game it was pretty good a lot better than i was expecting.

I also took time to check out Seattle a bit, which is a sweet city up in the Pacific North West. Just like Vancouver it rains the hell out of you in winter and then is in near drought for three months in summer! Much to my disappointment i was unable to run into Dr Fraiser Crane, or catch his radio show…

I also got to the Space Needle to check out the view

The Original Starbucks, from where the virus began to spread…

Downtown Seattle as viewed from the water while riding a ferry.

Anyway i am off to catch up on some sleep. Riding the Greyhound that leaves Seattle at 12:45am is not a lot of fun!

Cheers,

AB

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