I put the Seattle photos up on flickr. I recommend scrolling through the set manually instead of starting the slide show if you want to read the captions and embedded notes.
A few Seattle observations:
Just about everyone we encountered was kind, friendly, and totally into their town, even the bored hipsters. I guess if you know you're cool you don't have to front.
The landscape is lush, dark, and beautiful, but people-wise, it's kind of a homely city. Most big cities have these ridiculously hot office people stalking around downtown, but not Seattle. There were cute people, and attractive people, and interesting-looking people, but very few hotties of either sex. Even the cute little kids looked a little drawn and frowsy there. In that regard, I felt right at home.
Downtown is impossible to navigate and I was tempted quite a few times to just drive the car into a tree and leave it there. I felt like a hopelessly bad driver for a while until I saw that even our cab driver had trouble and had to talk himself through his route back to our hotel. ("Well, I guess I could take Third--no, shit, wait, Fifth, and then maybe if I turn left here...") Then I felt vindicated.
Everyone kept asking if we didn't want to move there. And it's true that I loved it there and had a great time visiting, but I don't think I could ever live there. They had good beer, pinball, toys, books, and Asian food out the hoo-hoo, and that was great. But my other major quality-of-life issues are swimming, grilling, and porch sitting, and Seattle's weather is conducive to none of these. That's fine, it keeps the riff-raff out, I guess.
So that was my trip. I'll see you later. I have to go shave my legs for a wedding.