Seattle Pike Place Evening Market

Seattle Pike Place Evening Farmers Market author Jesse Tam. The summer cruise ships are back in the northwest. Our famous landmark will provide downtown Seattle residents, families and workers a convenient opportunity to shop after work for fresh produce and support local farmers with extended hours on Wednesday nights. The late night hours are from June 1 to Oct 12  jessewa28.wordpress.com

Emerald City heading north to Alaska filled with tourists. One of the fun places to stroll is the Pike Place Market as a local or out of town visitors. Bellevue Eastside residences enjoy the short drive across the bridge to shop also. This year the market announced an Evening Farmers Market

Wednesdays from 5-8 pm, come fill your tote with just-picked-that-morning fruits and veggies, flowers and specialty farm products from more than a dozen farmers set up on Pike Place. Plus, enjoy live music, fun family activities and other special events on select Wednesdays

Evening Farmers Market   

Wednesdays, 5 - 8 pm

June 1 - October 12

Explore the shops, fresh produce, crafts, flower stalls and eatery at the market.  Make it simple or enjoy the music and festivities in the area.

Family Fun Nights

June-October, 2016

2nd Wednesdays

6/8, 7/13, 8/10, 9/14, 10/12

5:30 – 7:30 PM

On Pike Place

For families and children ages 3-12.

Join the Family Fun Nights on the second Wednesday of each month (June-October). Activities include hands on cooking demos, arts and crafts, live music, book readings with Seattle Public Library, scavenger hunts and more     .

All the fun is free! You can also pick up fresh fruits and vegetables from one of Pike Place Market’s local farmers while you’re here. Find us under the white tents at the north end of Pike Place, near the corner of Pike Place and Stewart St.

Bellevue Wireless Smart Store

Bellevue welcomes the opening of the newest Verizon Wireless Smart Store located in the Bellevue Square Mall. It's a popular mall where Jesse Tam see's changes and growth on the Eastside. The 5,657-square-foot store will allow customers to interact with new technology, new phones and "Lifestyle Zones".

The zones are part of a customer experience allowing them to get hands-on with the technology in the store. It will include  include "Get Fit" for sports, "Amplify It" for music, "Power" for gaming, "Home and On the Go" for home monitoring and energy management and "Anywhere Business" for professionals and entrepreneurs.

Stop by and take a peek next time you're at Bellevue Square Mall.  An example of the area is to show how smartphone can be turned into a house key or how sports fans can watch a game through a virtual reality headset. .  http://bit.ly/1sMp6Wf

Thank you for reading, share and follow more events.  Jesse

Our Goals and Accomplishments

The beginning of May with Jesse Tam  from Bellevue/Seattle, a time for us to reflect on our goals and accomplishments.  Seattle spring arrived with cherry blossoms at the UW Quad and Bellevue sheep shearing held at Kelsey Creek Park.  A time to take a breather from the daily grime to reflect on the real self.  Did you make a wish list of goals and targets  this year?  The list should be getting shorter or with a few items crossed off.     

The things we accomplish are slow and require hard work and at times, stumbling blocks before we reached the final step.  Success does not happen overnight and may require several do overs before it's just right.   The conditions change and can be unpredictable, but stay with it and don't give up the fight.  Our actions and reaction will predict the outcome.

Remember if the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, 

don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps

               Confucius

The Clipper Race

The Seattle waterfront, Bell Harbor Marina is the place to capture the Clipper 2015-16  Race fleet. Jesse Tam suggests this excellent event for locals and visitor. The fleet arrived for the first time in its twenty year history between April 15-20th. They will be in downtown Seattle until April 28th.  SR520 will be closed this weekend if traveling from eastside or Bellevue.

The public will have an opportunity to visit the yachts, meet race crew, attend public talks and participate in sailing experience. Race Village will open open daily from 1000 - 1900 on Wednesday, April 20 - 28th.  It will feature a variety of activities from public talks and entertainment.  See below for details for events.

https://clipperroundtheworld.com/race/port/west-coast-usa-2015-16

Free Open Boat Tours
1100 – 1900: Friday 22 to Tuesday 26 April

Find us at Bell Harbor to step on board the stripped out ocean racing yachts and meet crew preparing for the next race of their 40,000 mile extreme adventure.

1000 - 1600: Saturday 23 April - Also at Corinthian Yacht Club, Seattle, 7755 Seaview Avenue Northwest, Seattle

Experience sailing day
Have you got what it takes to crew in a round the world yacht race? This is an unique opportunity to experience for yourself what a stripped out 70 foot ocean racing yacht looks like, feels like and handles like.

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Mariners Opening Season Safeco Field

Seattle is proud to welcome Ken Griffey, Jr back to Safeco Field.  He will be inducted into the   National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown in July. Griffey is the  first player as a Mariner to be inducted.  A celebration is planned later in the season to recognized his induction.  Opening season for the Seattle Mariner's home game on Friday, April 8 against the Oakland Athletics was another sold out crowd.  A perfect spring evening with the first pitch by no other than our own Ken Griffey Jr. who came out of retirement momentarily.

A favorite time for families with a additional play area this season and more food vendors to help satisfy those hungry appetites during the games.  Let's hope for a winning season and get back into the lineup of wins and strike outs.reat memories for all the years playing baseball as "the kid".