Seattle Part One: The Space Needle

As I go through my pictures & experiences, I've decided the best way to go about it is to have 3 or more posts about our time in Seattle. Here comes the first, we'll see if I manage much more!!!

Seattle. The weather was nothing like you may have been led to believe. In fact, most days I took a light jacket and never even wore it!!!

Our hotel (actually, suite... said so right in the name) was in the middle of downtown, right near the convetion center. First shot is the view from our top floor room. Our last night before departure, we finally got a chance to check out the joint between the two, Cyber Dogs. Vegetarian hot dogs and interwebs access. I really liked the food, one of those where if you didn't know you probably wouldn't even know it was vegetarian. I didn't tell my oldest until the next day. No, I can't say enough about the place!!! The decor was awesome, and the music fit right in with it. That may be one of the following posts in itself.

Of course, we had to visit the Space Needle. Don't know how that'd be on a weekday, but on the weekend it took around an hour to get on the elevator. A pretty cool thing, it was. Shot 2 and 3 are, of course, the space needle, and the boys, looking up at it. Right across the street there's a McDonald's, and it has their logo painted on the top. Easy, effective advertising!!! I think the rest of the shots are all taken from the top of it. 50 year anniversary of the Space Needle!!!

I rented a car for the stay there. I don't think I'd do that again. Every place you go, you've got to pay to park. There's a bit of street parking avalible, but I was never able to get in on any. We even made a stop in at a Target. You'd think they'd do a little something with you there, but NO!!! $10 if you can keep it under an hour!!! Nice, my $14 purchase there ends up costing near twice that!!! I haven't figured it out exactly, but I think I spent about twice as much on parking as I did on the actual rental and gas. In fact, the rental was at the airport, and the departing dock for our cruise were pretty much on opposite ends of town, so we needed to take a cab to and from the dock, and THAT cost less than parking!!! I have learned.

In the same area there's the Experience Music Project. It's got a cool design to the building, reminds me more than a little of the Disney Concert Hall back home. In the same building there was also a Science fiction museum. Those could both be a post to themselves.

The next day we visited Pike Street marketplace and went on the crazy underground tour. There's another post!!!

I liked the World's Fair Space Needle hat. Would have totally gotten one of those!!! Haven't even gotten to all of Alaska!!!