Bellevue

Seattle’s skyline looks so different from here, not the typical skyline we’re used to from seeing around Seattle; it’s a different perspective. So maybe that’s why Bellevue got its name from: Belle>beautiful; vue>view ;)

I got an internship here, so I’ll be living in Bellevue for the summer!

Oh and the best place to go here is the Bellevue botanical gardens!

It sucks.

I was there on business and in the short three days did not see anything spectacular. I did, however, like the Russian pirozhki place at the mall.

I ate dinner every day at the Tap House Grill at the Bellevue Galleria. Can’t say I was blown away by the menu, but the setting anf beer list worked for me just fine.

I like this city. Interesting places are close to each other, so you don’t have to go back and forth with your car. and from bellevue arts museum to Bellevue Philharmonic Orchestra, Bellevue Square, there are many good places to see, and live.

Food & restaurants. Good.

.. the main downtown area around the mall seems to be kind of rebuilding or building up a bit, and there’s a pretty nice large open park right in downtown which is kind of neat, but other than that is mostly just suburban sprawl.

hahaha

Bellevue is a suburb of Seattle that has grown like a cancer to become either the third or fourth largest city in the great State of Washington. It is my great honor (ahem) to toil away five days a week (for the man) in Bellevue. My commute from Seattle could be worse if I had to travel across beautiful Lake Washington via the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge (a.k.a 520) rather than the more modern and higher-capacity Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge (a.k.a I-90). The commute to work is aggravated by the foreknowledge of spending the next eight hours in a netherworld of strip malls, cul de sacs, and parking lots. People are rarely seen outside their SUVs except at the gas pump.

There is one area of Bellevue that has managed to build a certain character and that is the area around Crossroads Mall. A large influx of new immigrants has given the scene an international flavor. However, it remains an American mall, complete with Starbucks, Barnes & Noble, and a dozen other national brands. It’s just that the population isn’t 95% white and English-speaking.

But I hesitate to complain too much while there are people living and working in much more depressing places, such as Renton.