Friendly Fremont

My favorite area of Seattle is Fremont. Why Fremont? Fremont isn't dangerous like the University district, and it isn't noisy or crowded like downtown. In Fremont, you can walk at a relaxed pace and explore the area slowly. When you take a bus to Fremont, you can get off the bus near an intersection between Fremont Ave N and N 34 St. As far as I know, bus of UW (#31/32) and Downtown (#16) arrive there directly.

 

My friend and I took bus #31 to get there. After we got off the bus, the first stop is "waiting for the interurban". This place isn't written up on our teacher's 50 City Walks card, but it is shown in my Seattle travel guide book in Taiwanese. Local residents or visitors sometimes put decorations on this statue. It looks fun!

We kept walking toward the direction of Evanston Ave N. We found the "Fremont Rocket",  a very big rocket connected to a roof of a store. Actually, we were not interested in the rocket. Haha~

Then we kept walking on Evanston Ave until we found the Statue of Lenin at the intersection bewteen Evanston Ave N and Fremont Place N. The Statue of Lenin is a huge statue. You can see the picture. I looked so small compared to the statue. Lenin was a very important person in Russia history.

 

What is our next stop? If you go to Fremont, you have to go to this place, the "Fremont Troll". The Troll is ready to climb out and its left hand is pressing down on an old mini cooper. Every time, when I take my friends here, there are always many visitors taking photos.

 

After we visited several places, we got hungry, so we decided to go an American restaurant, called Blue Moon Burger (703 N 34th St). It is in my travel guide book. We ordered two different kinds of hamburgers and a half and half (half fried onion ring and half French fries). It cost around $19.00. By the way, the clerk of the restaurant was friendly and nice to customers because he told us that we could drink free sodas if we ate at the restaurant. Haha~

 

After we finished our dinner, we went to the bus stop. While we were waiting for the bus, we saw the Fremont bridge being raised. WOW, we were so lucky to see it. In our country, no bridges can be separated and raised.

Above is my half day Fremont trip. In Fremont, there is an annual parade every June. This June, my friend and I also went to see the parade. The performers seemed be almost all local presidents. They had heavy makeup and played some musical Instruments or danced. Some people wore fairy-tale costumes. The most special thing is that we saw several naked people with body painted. I have never seen anything like this in Taiwan. Finally, I really recommend Fremont. You can take an afternoon to visit it and find some interesting things there.