A Green Seattle (St. Paddy's Day Parade Tomorrow!)

This is the thing, everybody's Irish on St. Patrick's Day. So from wherever you may find yourself there is just one thing to do this Saturday morning. Come down to 4th Avenue and Jefferson Street in Downtown Seattle at 12:30 p.m. That is Saturday, March 15, for the St. Patrick's Day Parade! The parade will travel north on 4th Avenue to the reviewing stand at Westlake Park (that is 5 minutes from our office!) and it officially ends at 2 p.m. at Seattle Center. With Formalities! Closing Ceremony! What might you encounter if you make your way down?

http://www.irishclub.org/parade.htm

This link will take you to a site which has all the details, and not only that but photos from last year's parade! Which includes a wonderful photo of what is undoubtedly The REAL St. Patrick! Since he was at the parade last year, there is no reason to believe he will not be there again. In fact, I am counting on it.

Something else that sounds worth attending...a St. Patrick's Day Mass for Peace. Details are on that same site.

And there is an Irish Week Festival Noon-6 p.m. Sunday at Seattle Center. The excitement includes "booths selling Irish and Celtic products, Irish food and libations, Irish music, singing, dancing, an Irish Film Festival, workshops, lectures, cultural displays, children's contests and activities, etc. For more detailed information, call 206-223-3608."

More! Everett's Irish Cabaret Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. at the Historic Everett Theatre, 2911 Colby Ave (at Hewitt), downtown Everett. It's an old fashioned Irish event with humour, dancing, music, and singing, MC'd by an Irish Storyteller and an Irish Singer. Gotta be there!

For the fast (preferably not furious) among us, there is the St. Patrick's Day Dash Sunday (Mar. 16) at 9 a.m. It goes downhill from T S McHugh's near the Space Needle to F X McRory's near Safeco Field! It's nearly 4 miles, and last year over 15,000 runners participated. You have to register PRIOR to the day, go to this website for details: http://www.stpatsdash.com/.

And on the day itself, more Irish Week Festival at Seattle Center, noon - 4 p.m.

Something a bit more bouncy where you can down a pint or two and tap your toes to great Irish music? On March 17, St. Patrick's Day, $5 joint cover gets you into both Molly Maguires (610 NW 65th St in Ballard) with music from 1 p.m. to closing and into the Ould Triangle (9736 Greenwood Ave N) with The Raybourne Experience performing all day. Click on this link to hear some of the promised music:

http://www.myspace.com/ouldtriangle

See you all there!

Alligator Soul in Everett

We met a young couple in Everett to look at some houses in Lake Stevens. They have been using our website to check out the homes and values and knew exactly what they were looking for! We saw about 5 houses that they liked, and also one in Everett which was a craftsman from early in the last century...I think around 1910, with a lot of charm and character. It had three fruit trees in the back yard, a cherry, an apple, and a plum...amazing how much that affects me, when a yard has been cared about, and something special about people growing fruit and also vegetables and herbs. It really makes it feel like a haven, to me, a loved place.

After they left to go to work (they both work for Boeing) we went downtown to look for what the City Information Center had as a guide to Everett (they have a nice "Welcome to Everett" in newspaper format, I got several copies) and then about half a block away we found a great restaurant with the following on a sign outside:

Southern Cooking
Orders to Go
Daily Specials
Alligator Soul
LIVE MUSIC

This restaurant, Alligator Soul, took our breath away with the amazing food we had! I was not expecting to nearly swoon from having a NEW DISH that was truly the best food I'd eaten in a long time (and I've eaten very nice food at restaurants recently).

Crawfish Etouffee — A lighter, richer version of the traditional Southern favorite. Loaded with lots of buttery crawfish tails & finished with mango salsa. Served up with white rice & cornbread ……………… $16.95

Highly recommended! On the wall was the reprint of a vote by Seattle Magazine readers that Alligator won for Best Other restaurant in Pudget Sound!

By the way, here is the virtual tour I took of Alligator Soul, the street with the event center and the downtown area, and some of the neighborhoods and houses when we drove west to look at the Sound:

photo tour of Alligator Soul, Everett Downtown Streets and some houses, driving toward the Sound.

Alligator Soul Restaurant

And I was checking out Everett websites and here are 3 I thought were very useful:


Everett Chamber of Commerce

Everett, Washington, USA

Map of Everett Neighborhoods