Pike Place Market is a 100-year-old farmer's market here in downtown Seattle and is one of the oldest continuously-operating farmer's markets in the country. It's a major tourist attraction, but is also a place where locals go to buy fresh fruits & seafood, cheap flowers, and a variety of good foods. We'd been to the market a few times before but weren't really familiar with it and haven't bought much there. We read about a food tour of the market and it got really high reviews. Even though it was expensive, we thought that it would be a good way to learn our way around the market and get samples of some of the food.

So, we headed out early Saturday morning and met up with the tour group. Our first stop was a donut place in the market. The donuts were really good but really greasy. We also stopped by a place that sells spices and tea, we tasted some fish, had some grapes, and drank a shot of hot dark chocolate. The next three stops were the best, we stopped at a cherry place which had great chocolate-covered cherries. Then, we stopped at a cheese place, which had great cheese and very tasty macaroni and cheese. The next stop was at a Russian bakery, which tasted as great as it smelled. Our final stop gave us some coconut cream pie. After the tour we got a coupon for 10% off of any of the places we stopped at, so I'm definitely looking forward to going back this week to eat more food. I hope to visit Pike Place Market more frequently in the future and incorporate its great variety of fresh and tasty foods into our regular diets.