Nickname: The Evergreen State

Capitol: Olympia

An apple tree grows pods of five blossoms. The first to bloom is called the king blossom and will grow the largest and best apple. The other blossoms are encouraged to fall, either by nature or by hand.

There is a delicacy enjoyed on the Puget Sound called the Geoduck. It’s pronounced gooey-duck and is supposedly elusive and terribly ugly. It lives in the sand and has a hard shell with long legs.

There is an espresso shack situated in a parking lot about every 100 feet in this state. (This is our assumption.) Some fun business names include the “Pony Espresso” and “Roundup Alatte” with a espresso bean-as-a-cowboy mascot.