Touring Seattle

On this day we went into downtown Seattle to see some of the Museums ans the Space Needle. We got a late start and so we didn't get to do as much as we had planned to do on this day, but oh well, it was a nice day anyway! We went to the Space Needle first and didn't really take any pictures while up in the observation deck. Up on the observation deck we called Yury (at work at the time) and told him where we were.. He had is binoculars with him in the office and was able to see us waiving at him from the Space Needle.. haha how cool is that. After being on the observation deck of the empire state building, the height of the Space Needle wasn't all that impressive. But it was an interesting building and there was a really great view of the city from the observation deck.

After the Space Needle we then met Yury and Caryn and family for lunch at a tiny Pho resturant. I had never had Pho before and it was extremely good.. I got Curry and Andy got the Pho and then we shared our food so that we could have some of each. After lunch we headed to the Science Fiction Museum A.K.A. nerd heaven!! There was so much stuff there and they wouldn't let you take pictures of anything so that's why there nothing but the cool outside of the building on this blog. But there was a ton of stuff to see. Another part of the same building was the Music Project. There was this huge sculpture in the middle of the Music Project building made out of every kind of guitar ever made... it was sooooo cool - I wish I couldn't at least taken a picture of that. There was an area that went through the musical history or the Northwest and who came from Seattle and what they did and how they contributed to the music stylings of the generation. There was also this really awesome room that went through the life of Jimmy Hendrix and showed clips of him playing and different things that he accomplished in his life as well as old guitars that he used and outfits he would wear to his concerts.

There was a Jim Henson section where they went through the initial drawings and ideas that Jim had before actually making Sesame Street. They had some puppets that the kids were able to play with, but other than that, it was a lot of seeing what he did and how it all came to be.

We were all so exhausted after walking around all over the place that we went home rather early. It was nice, we relaxed and watched some TV before bed and visited with everyone.