Arrived in Seattle yesterday afternoon. We were impressed by the efficiency of the ferry system for our speedy crossing of Puget Sound. We are renting a small apartment in the Queen Anne neighborhood on an incredibly steep hill. The hill appears to be 45 degrees- maybe I am wrong- but it provides a great workout on the way home. We are only a few blocks away from the Space Needle.
This morning we slept in and got an uncharacteristicly slow start to our day. We first visited the Experience Music Project http://www.empsfm.org/ which highlighted many of the local music influences and is housed in a building that is suppose to look like Jimi Hendrix smashed guitar from above. I think I may have figured out my interest in mean music based on a quote by Dave Grohl of Nirvana and The Foo Fighters, “I think the lure of punk rock was the energy and immediacy; the need to thrash stuff around.”
Rode the monorail to the City Center and ate lunch at a Bolivian restaurant – llamas on the cover of the menu made me think of Alyse- luckily no llamas in the menu. We sat outside on the second level of the restaurant under an umbrella at this Pike Place Market. The market was an experience with products, produce, and entertainment. The Blue Angles were doing a show in Seattle and we saw them fly overhead several times.
We walked along the shoreline to the Olympic Sculpture Park. The sculptures were very unique and the park was nicely laid out.
This evening we took the Duck Boat Tour and went up in the Space Needle.
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