Hello, I visited Seattle in July 2003. I for one was not impressed and found it very overrated. If you\'ve visited other big cities in the US (New York, Chicago, LA, Boston, San Francisco etc.)it has many of the same things as they do. I found the national parks in Washington State (Mt. Rainier and Olympia) to be much more beautiful and interesting. I\'m from New Jersey in close proximity to New York so other big cities do not realy impress me that much as they\'re all pretty much all the same with a few variations. I did not visit any churches in Seattle itself but I did visit a church in the Tacoma area for Divine Liturgy on Sunday. It was an OCA church and was kind of weird in that all the women wore really long dresses and head coverings and the men all had beards. Not that hose things are bad in and of themselves just that I found it a little over the top especially since the great majority of people there were converts and did not come from cultural backgrounds that did this. I recommend spending as much time as possible in the national parks as they are truly extraordinary. Just my opinion. Have a great trip!
Gerald
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