Our trip to the Panama Hotel

I know that several of you have read the book entitled "The Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet." A wonderful book that was written with much historical background. It has to do with the Japenese internment in 1941. As serious as that was and as serious as that sounds, it is a wonderful story. It is a novel, based on history. The story takes place in Seattle's International District and a lot of it around the Panama Hotel. We discovered that the hotel is still there. It is over 100 years old and you can actually stay there. It is kept in very nice condition. Next door is a tea and coffee shop. We stopped in and have a pot of tea and a goodie. Was fun and we felt like we were sitting in a piece of history. I guess we were. This picture is of the stairway to the main floor of the hotel, no elevators. =)