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Spending The Holiday In Seattle!


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eleep Enthusiast

I'm going to be visiting my brother in Seattle from the 18th to the 27th -- I just confirmed my airline reservations.

I'm going to do a search on this board for restaurant recommendations and such, but I was also wondering whether anyone knew of stuff I should just plain do in Seattle while I'm there for the holidays -- I know it's going to be cold, but I'd be particularly interested in anything that might involve _hiking_ and _mountains_. My brother's a big hiker/kayaker and will definitely have some ideas, but I'd love to hear what anyone else has to say.

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Yea!!!

Hike the Ho rainforest. Walk the Dungeness Spit. Kayak from Bainbridge to one of the nearby islands.

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Go to <www.rei.com> and check their calendar. Sometimes they have some cool stuff (like guided snow shoe trips) around Christmas.

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Gluten-free Girl's chef-fiance's restaurant is in Seattle. He makes almost everything safe for people with celiac, so that she can eat there. It's called Impromptu Wine Bar and you can find posts about it on her blog: Open Original Shared Link

I can't vouch for it personally, but the way she talks about the food makes me want to go to Seattle just for dinner!

Sweetfudge Community Regular

Check out: www.pacificcoastrestaurants.com for some good grub!

Some very high class restaurants in the NW. Stanford is great, as is the grill, and Newport Bay.

Good luck! Try and stay dry :P

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do you subscribe to "living without"...they just had a huge list of gluten-free restaurants (both chain and local, separated by state). you might want to pick it up if you can!

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Welcome!

If you were staying any longer, I'd say that we should do something on the 27th! :) Unless you've got the 22nd open... :P Anyway...

Some things to do:

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Some places to eat:

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(These are just ones that have gluten-free menus, I've had good luck at Open Original Shared Link, Open Original Shared Link, and Open Original Shared Link as well.)


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eleep Enthusiast

Wow -- this is great, everyone. I'm definitely going to Impromptu and the hiking ideas sound great -- although my brother seems to have his own mysterious plans about what kinds of outdoor activities we'll be doing (all I know is that he asked me to be sure I've packed my rainpants as well as my regular shell)! He's also been talking up some kind of Seattle underground tour...

Edit: Uh -- now that I'm looking at the weather, I realize that those rainpants may just be an everyday precaution! Wow -- looks like the Pacific NW is getting hit hard!

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Wow -- this is great, everyone. I'm definitely going to Impromptu and the hiking ideas sound great -- although my brother seems to have his own mysterious plans about what kinds of outdoor activities we'll be doing (all I know is that he asked me to be sure I've packed my rainpants as well as my regular shell)! He's also been talking up some kind of Seattle underground tour...

Edit: Uh -- now that I'm looking at the weather, I realize that those rainpants may just be an everyday precaution! Wow -- looks like the Pacific NW is getting hit hard!

eleep

The Underground Tour is great - ask him to sign you up for the 'adults' tour; it's better. :P

Yeah, the weather has been... interesting. Snow the day after Thankgiving, massive rainstorms earlier this month, and the windstorm last night.... 700,000 customers without power, said one of the main power companies around here. (Seattle proper wasn't too bad, but we didn't have power for ~24 hours, and we're one of the ones back on early.) Lots of snow over the pass (got to learn how to put on tire cables today!), and trees down all over the place, including one in our back yard (so now we own a chainsaw!).

I'm sure you'll enjoy it, but I am curious what sort of hiking he's thinking of. I swear I'm going to need snowshoes. (If you have skipants for that sort of thing... Might be good.... :) )

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