Every time I visit Seattle, I force my daughter & her husband to take me to Archie McPhee. If i could navigate my way around the city I'd drive myself there. However, I find Seattle very confusing and hope to live my life without ever having to drive in that city.
Archie McPhee has the best selection of just everything you've never wanted until you saw it and then realized you had to have it. They have viking hats and fez's and rubber chickens and space suits and chairs shaped like hands and cigarette holders and teeny tiny plastic babies and purses shaped like coffins. They have bazooka joe gum that is printed in hebrew. They have ganesh and vishnu stickers for your car. They have rock-em-sock-em robots that aren't robots, but are rabbi's and nuns instead.
go here. drive to ballard. Eat some good ballard food (pickeled herring and the like). Buy tons of junk at Archie McPhee. Give it to friends for christmas. They will love you for it.
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