Montana and Seattle

After we left Yellowstone we were looking at a 12 hour drive to Seattle.  Instead of doing this all at once, we ended up driving for about 3 hours and staying in (I think) Butte, MT for the night.  As we headed out of Yellowstone and further into Montana, we discovered that MT is a breathtakingly beautiful state.  I don't think I'd want to live there, but I wouldn't mind taking some vacations there.  We stayed in a sketchy little motel on the outskirts of town for the night and prepared for a long 8 hour drive to Seattle the next day.  We left Butte fairly early the next morning and I was once again immediately struck by Montana's beauty.  One of the first things I saw on our drive that day was one of four or five rainbows we would see in Montana.
We arrived in Seattle, also known as "The Emerald City", in the early afternoon and didn't really have any plans for what we wanted to see apart from the Space Needle.  So we checked into our hotel and headed over there.  It turned out that the Space Needle was just about the only thing we did in Seattle, but it was worth it.  We took the elevator to the top and it was typical Seattle weather -- gray and cloudy -- but we still enjoyed it.  Overall, I didn't really like Seattle, but we were also only there for a very brief time so I think I need to give it more of a chance before I make any judgements.