THANK YOU! Firefighters!!

After getting off the Ferry, you are in Downtown, near the edge of Pioneer Square, one of the oldest parts of Seattle, and the location of some amazing architecture, and art galleries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Square,_Seattle


Jaime and I try to head up to Seattle each Spring, to attend two wonderful festivals happening there. THe first is the Northwest Folklife Festival, a huge festival of music and dance from around the world http://www.nwfolklife.org/ The second, is the Seattle International Film Festival http://www.siff.net Since we can't afford to tour the world, it is a way to take the tour in our imagination, supplemented with Seattle's wonderful mix of ethnic restaurants!

Normally Seattle is known for cloudy and rainy weather. But on this trip, the weather was incredibly beautiful, and it was the first time in 30 years that the four days of the folklife festival were all sunny! We enjoyed it, but couldn't help think that it might be the result of global climate change.

Very informative website by the City of Seattle http://www.pan.ci.seattle.wa.us/html/visitor/

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I just angrily read about several thousand Native Americans, in South Dakota, who have been left without power and water on their reservations for more than two weeks, after being hit by huge snow storms and frigid temperatures. These same reservations also suffer unemployment rates of 75-85%, seemingly ignored by our government.

http://ndnnews.info/news/2010/01/thousands-of-downed-power-poles-leave-south-dakota-sioux-reservation-without-heat-water-melting-snow-to-use-in-toilets/

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