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More Seattle Diary!
Wednesday, July 25
Pacific Science Center, Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, and the Space Needle. That's a whole lotta stuff packed into one day, right there. The science center was really neat, with dinosaur bones, animatronic dinos, and an IMAX movie about them as well. It was really funny to see them talking in the movie about how some of these fossils they've found where the animals had to be overwhelmed without warning by some sort of flood event. YA THINK??? I got some really nice butterfly shots, and they had a fun thing with how the body works and stuff.
The Science Fiction Museum was fascinating. Not just for the movie and TV show props, but for the meta and the history and the "this is where we've been and this is the seminal stuff and this is where we might be going" sort of thing. Sadly, a dearth of Firefly stuff, and not a whole lot of Farscape either, but just a wealth of books and information. I highly recommend this; it was one of the highlights of the trip for me. And the Hubby wasn't bored either. Interestingly, there wasn't a whole lot o' fantasy to be seen, if any.
The Space Needle was neat, although I'm not sure I need to do it ever again, especially not for that price. Cool views, about what you'd expect. Got to see a seaplane take off and land in the harbor.
Dinner at the Thirteen Coins, just out of downtown. Hubby had some sort of seafood stew, and I had a very tasty club sandwich with some amazing potato...things. They were french fries, but about twice as thick and long. Need to figure out how to make those.
Thursday, July 26
Whale watching! And wandering around Friday Harbor looking at STUFF. Whale Museum! Scored a plush jellyfish for the bathroom! There's a used bookstore with a bunch of neat rooms, and I nearly bought a couple of Gaiman books I don't have, but I'm getting short of money, so I decided to save it. It's not like I don't have enough to read right now. But then we hit another bookstore (new, not used), with the most eclectic collection of books I've ever seen. Ann Coulter is rubbing shoulders with Michael Moore, and they've got the Creationist books sitting right next to the ones on evolution. It was wild. And then I found something called "The Physics of Superheroes." Well, duh, of course I grabbed that. What do you take me for? I needed something to read on the ferry back, right?
The whale watch itself was a rousing success. We saw whales! I even got pix of fins! We saw some breaching way off in the distance. It was SO COOL. And we saw harbor seals and nesting birds too. I was really happy for my long pants, because BRR, y'all. If you go on one of these things, and you've got hair like mine, bring something to tie it back with. Wind-blown hair might be all romantical in a song, but practically speaking, it's a pain in the ass. The trip was really shiny, though.
One of the many dino exhibits at the Science Center:
Butterflies!
The Science Fiction Museum:
Space Needle:
View from the Space Needle:
Whale!
Harbor Seals:
Cormorants and gulls nesting:
Da Boy dressed as an Orca in the Whale Museum:
Pacific Science Center, Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, and the Space Needle. That's a whole lotta stuff packed into one day, right there. The science center was really neat, with dinosaur bones, animatronic dinos, and an IMAX movie about them as well. It was really funny to see them talking in the movie about how some of these fossils they've found where the animals had to be overwhelmed without warning by some sort of flood event. YA THINK??? I got some really nice butterfly shots, and they had a fun thing with how the body works and stuff.
The Science Fiction Museum was fascinating. Not just for the movie and TV show props, but for the meta and the history and the "this is where we've been and this is the seminal stuff and this is where we might be going" sort of thing. Sadly, a dearth of Firefly stuff, and not a whole lot of Farscape either, but just a wealth of books and information. I highly recommend this; it was one of the highlights of the trip for me. And the Hubby wasn't bored either. Interestingly, there wasn't a whole lot o' fantasy to be seen, if any.
The Space Needle was neat, although I'm not sure I need to do it ever again, especially not for that price. Cool views, about what you'd expect. Got to see a seaplane take off and land in the harbor.
Dinner at the Thirteen Coins, just out of downtown. Hubby had some sort of seafood stew, and I had a very tasty club sandwich with some amazing potato...things. They were french fries, but about twice as thick and long. Need to figure out how to make those.
Thursday, July 26
Whale watching! And wandering around Friday Harbor looking at STUFF. Whale Museum! Scored a plush jellyfish for the bathroom! There's a used bookstore with a bunch of neat rooms, and I nearly bought a couple of Gaiman books I don't have, but I'm getting short of money, so I decided to save it. It's not like I don't have enough to read right now. But then we hit another bookstore (new, not used), with the most eclectic collection of books I've ever seen. Ann Coulter is rubbing shoulders with Michael Moore, and they've got the Creationist books sitting right next to the ones on evolution. It was wild. And then I found something called "The Physics of Superheroes." Well, duh, of course I grabbed that. What do you take me for? I needed something to read on the ferry back, right?
The whale watch itself was a rousing success. We saw whales! I even got pix of fins! We saw some breaching way off in the distance. It was SO COOL. And we saw harbor seals and nesting birds too. I was really happy for my long pants, because BRR, y'all. If you go on one of these things, and you've got hair like mine, bring something to tie it back with. Wind-blown hair might be all romantical in a song, but practically speaking, it's a pain in the ass. The trip was really shiny, though.
One of the many dino exhibits at the Science Center:
Butterflies!
The Science Fiction Museum:
Space Needle:
View from the Space Needle:
Whale!
Harbor Seals:
Cormorants and gulls nesting:
Da Boy dressed as an Orca in the Whale Museum: