We slept in until about 10 in the morning on Sunday and then rode the Seattle Streetcar into downtown. I think David and Karen liked the cleanliness of the Streetcar and how smooth the ride was compared to buses. It's just too bad the Streetcar only has one line right now. Anyway we walked to Top Pot donuts for breakfast and Karen had a maple glazed old fashioned donut, David and Troy had regular glazed old fasioned, and I had the chocolate bar which is basically just a regular chocolate covered donut in the shape of a bar. Karen also got some tangerine juice which I don't think she'd ever had before.

While in Belltown, we stopped in the Seattle Glassblowing Studio and watched some artists blow glass. I've always liked glass art and would love to have a piece to display in our apartment some day. Glassblowing is a popular art in the Northwest, with lots of galleries everywhere and the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, which we unfortunately didn't have time to go to.

We briefly walked by the Cinerama on our way to a bar to watch the World Cup Final between Spain and the Netherlands. Every bar we stopped in was pretty much completely full with small areas of standing room only. We found a small cafe that had room, but they were charging a minimum of $15 per person to watch it. After standing the first 20 minutes of the game in a very crowded bar, we went to Spit Fire which was less crowded for the rest of the first half. It was fun watching the game with so many other people who were so into the game. Everyone would cheer and go crazy during good plays. Unfortunately we just got tired of standing, so we ended up walking back to our apartment during halftime and watched the second half in our living room.

In preparation for David and Karen's visit, I bought a can of Cougar Gold Cheese that we all shared with crackers during the game. We also had some of the Vlaskaas Dutch cheese we bought in Leavenworth. We also had a peach I got from Pike Place Market, some apricots, and beer.

After the game, which the Dutch lost despite our eating Dutch cheese, we rode the bus into downtown where we walked around the retail core. We walked through Pacific Place and went through Nordstrom. We also stopped at the Seattle Central Library which had really neat architecture and lots of interesting art inside. I think David and Karen really thought it was cool.

We took them to Pioneer Square next, which was were the main part of Seattle was in the early 1900s. There's a lot of old buildings and architecture to see in Pioneer Square. We decided to do the Underground Tour, but had to wait almost an hour for the next tour. We tried to go to the Waterfall Gardens close by, but they were already closed, so we stopped for a small snack at a cafe instead.

Finally we started the Underground Tour where we learned about Seattle's history and why we have an underground in Pioneer Square. David and Karen were really interested in the historical aspect of Seattle, so it was good that we did the tour. It was basically the same tour Troy and I had done before with slightly different stories. There's all kinds of weird old stuff still down there, even though most of it was cleared out decades ago.

The tour was over around 6:30 and we had tickets to the Sounders-FC Dallas soccer game at 7:30, so we didn't have much time to eat dinner. We hurried over to the International District, which is sort of on the way to Qwest Field. We ate at Jade Garden, which had really good Chinese food. I got the chow mein, which I actually didn't care much for, but I liked what everyone else got. David got some kind of veggie stir fry and Karen got the stir fried rice, which were both very good.

We walked to the soccer game and arrived about 20 minutes into the game. It was already 1-0, so we missed Montero's goal in the 14th minute. Everyone was standing the entire game, which is normally a good thing, but Karen and I were so tired from walking all day that we sat down occasionally. Unfortunately FC Dallas dominated the second half and one of our players got a red card and was ejected from the game, so we had to play the rest of the game down one man. FC Dallas ended up tying the game when it was almost over.

After the game, we took Link Light Rail back to the Westlake Center downtown and then walked the rest of the way home. It wasn't too late, so we decided to drive to Kerry Park to show them the view of the city at night.

When we got back home, we went to Paddy Coynes in our apartment building for a few drinks and snacks. We shared the fish and chips and potato skins. It was a really great second day of their visit.

PS: Unfortunately we didn't take that many pictures during the first few days of their visit. We took more as the trip went on though.