There is a lot of interesting public art in Fremont. This was an interesting piece where two separate statutes where intended to appear as though they were on television when you looked at it from the correct vantage point. We ate lunch near here at Blue Moon burgers which is a Seattle based joint with three locations. It prides itself on having local, natural ingredients, and the fries and burgers certainly hit the spot.
Some of the interesting art in Fremont is "The Fremont Troll," located appropriately under a bridge. Check out the link which talks about its construction. In the troll's left hand is a VW bug, and it is an actual VW bug.
The statue of Lenin is interesting and controversial. I wanted to pose with it but unfortunately there were some activists trying to get people to sign some petition and they were directly beneath it. Ironically I'm quite certain it was for a cause that probably had more allegiance with Lenin's views than opposition. Thankfully somewhere along the way someone had the foresight to paint Lenin's hands red to represent blood. Maybe the petition was to clean his hands.... I didn't approach the Che' look-a-like to find out.
The missle seen here in a couple of photos was once intended to deliver a nuclear payload. It is now attached to a Fremont bar.
I actually had a few photos of the hedge dinosaur below. It needed some TLC. Blogger has been having some issues and in my frustration organizing this I ended up deleting the photos. You are not missing much. I suggested here that Kate should pose as though she was being eaten. I know.... I know, needs work. You can see an eye on the head looking at her if you scrutinize it closely.
After exploring Fremont and getting thoroughly sun burnt (there is a story to that involving organic sun-block from a whole foods type store, the only place in Fremont I could find, and passing by youngsters with petitions multiple times. Apparently Kate & I do not care about women's health. We are jerks) we walked back up to 45th street. I found a Mom & Pop store where I scored not only some real sun block, but some fantastic sparkling lemonade that really hit the spot. On 45th we picked up our bus and headed to our next destination, the Chittenden Locks, where we saw salmon through a great viewing window.
The locks from the surface, we watched a couple boats pass through, kind of envious of the navigators' day on the water.
Blogger was giving me problems on this post. I actually started writing this several days ago but gave up when I was accidentally deleting photos and repeatedly getting them out of order. These pictures are from Discovery Park, which is an enormous untamed park. Many hiking paths, bike paths and dirt roads traverse this park, and it is home to Discovery Lighthouse, which we rushed to get to. The sun was setting fast, and between the emerging mosquitoes and a limited bus schedule we did not want to be too long!
We were pretty excited to see this, the first really good glimpse of Mount Rainier. It was surprisingly dominant in the skyline and we were thrilled to be in town on such a beautiful day.
Back in the city we ended up going to "Serious Pie," a great little "hip" pizza joint not to far from the hotel that had a nice atmosphere. Apparently it is one of these trendy famous-chef establishments with locations across the U.S., which had I know I may have avoided it. Regardless, ignorance was bliss and I enjoyed the meal, eating most of my pie and part of Kate's (oink oink). You can see the sun damage done in this photo! We were eager to collapse after this, exhausted after a productive day of urban exploration.
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