Be a tourist! I dare ya!

So, here's why I love when people come to visit me in Seattle. I get to do the touristy stuff that I'm supposedly too cool and "too native" (as someone SERIOUSLY said to me) to do. So, my pals Mark and Alex came to visit me last weekend and I got to do just that. Touristy stuff.

And you know the only thing better than doing touristy stuff with friends in town? Doing touristy stuff with a designer/art director with a super friggin' AWESOME camera. Behold!


Mark and Alex at Kerry Park, my favorite view of Seattle. Again.






<— See? I've taken this same photo at least a hundred times, but none of them ever came out this cool.




He was in a jam/He's in a giant clam! (Or, uh, oyster in this case.)










Them's some serious lobster tails!





















Yes, they do really throw the fish.




Hooray Pike Brewery Beer!












A collection of gum on a wall in Post Alley. Crazy/disgusting/cool.


So, it's great having people here to show off the town. But it also made me realize, I don't have to have friends here to go out and see stuff I've never seen. I barely did any of the cool stuff Minneapolis had to offer and I lived there my whole life. So, my suggestion to you? Go out and see something new. Take a bus instead of your car. Or, better yet, a bus with a guide. Be a tourist in your own town. You're not THAT cool.