The day we poked a Starfish.

This morning we decided to head over to pier 39, to get there we hopped on a bus before catching a street car that took us the rest of the way. It was a pretty hot day so the crowded bus was traumatic enough but then when we reached the street car - woah nelly! It was a whole new level of trauma!! The streetcar was rammed and to top it all off we swopped drivers half way! The new guy jumped on shouting ' I'm a new driver!.. Hold on!!' before muttering 'I can't work this new stuff' whilst honking the horns and ringing the bell manically. He took a shining for us though and adjusted the mirror so he could ''see the beautiful people in the back *winks*'' LAD!

Once we got to the pier we mooched around looking at the shops and restaurants, the place hasn't changed since either of us were last here and it is still full of tourists - like ourselves! We decided to go to 'Bubba Gump' for lunch because Amy had heard good things from people about it and it had jumbalaya on the menu so I was game! The restaurants theme is inspired around the film 'Forest Gump' and the character Bubba's obsession with shrimp. The place is full of quotes, photos and trinkets from the film - the staff even come around to your table to do 'Forest Gump Trivia' - very American.
The food was good though and we got to take home a cup that flashes!! Also our waiter was freaked out by me being gluten free/wheat intolerant so got his manager to bring me my food invade he killed me or something?! Very odd, but lets not lie - I enjoyed the attention ;)

After lunch we went to see the famous Sea Lions... Well all 8 of them. There were hardly any there! I'm talking 8/10 max and usually there's hundreds!! They obviously are getting bored of being photograph so waltzed over to Sea World or something. However the ones we saw were still as amusing as ever, fighting and shoving each other off into the water.

Our city pass meant that we got into the 'Aquarium of the Bay' for free so we went just for the crack. It was pretty rubbish to be fair, the staff were very friendly though which distracted us from the awkward lack of fish aspect.There was one aggro looking octopus and that was about it! They had some of the standard pointless fish on show and a glass tunnel you could walk through where fish and sharks swam over you which was okay, although the glass was a bit odd so Sparks felt sea sick and I felt dizzy - a dangerous combination when around sea life.
Near the end of the aquarium there was a section where you could touch some of the fish and other creepy things, I poked a starfish then made Amy, it took her a good 10 minutes to man up enough and then a further 2 minutes to reach the starfish in the water. Her reaction was 'oh... Is that it?' as they feel like some sort of rock. Needless to say I don't think she was impressed but hey it's been a month and Amy has now eaten fish AND poked a starfish! Papa Sparks the 'fish fear' is gone!

Tonight we booked our tickets to Vancouver to visit friends and family, which means we aren't going to seattle anymore *sad face* the tickets there and accommodation was ridiculous considering we only were planning to go for a few days, so instead we are going straight up Vancouver and then Vancouver Island! We're both tres excited and I'm sure you'll all be glad to know we're skipping the greyhound this time and flying, no traumatic bus journey for us!