After being extremely nervous about the amount of empty space in our bags (though we managed not to forget anything), we started our exciting trip with a bit of time travel. We departed just after midnight on Wednesday, which meant we landed in Seattle on Tuesday again. We flew Hawaiian airlines and were really impressed with the airline. I would recommend them to anyone in the future, but be prepared to hear Mahalo (thank you) about a million times. Sean was also really excited about how much easier Customs was this time around.
We landed just in time for bed and found out that February was Museum Month in Seattle. If you were staying at a hotel in the Seattle area, you got half off all museums. We woke up and went to the grocery store to buy cereal. We got back to our room to find that the plastic silverware provided did not include a spoon and got to eat our cereal with a fork. It was entertaining. Then we headed to the Chihuly Glass Gardens. This was what I was most excited about in Seattle and it did not dissapoint. The MASSIVE glass installations were spectacular and the pictures don't do it justice. There was an outdoor garden as well, but unfortunately it didn't shine as much with overcast skies. We got lucky in that we never saw the sun in Seattle, but it never rained on us either.
We followed that up with a trip to the EMP museum. We had no idea what it really was, but the second we saw the building we knew we made the right decision. It was by far the coolest museum I have ever been in and I could have easily spent the whole day inside. A real effort was made to make everything inside unique. The museum was a music/pop culture collection. You walk into a 3 story screen and sound system playing music videos. There was a whole room dedicated to indie video games with a bunch of consoles to sit and play all the games. There was a massive area of music videos that showed all kinds of milestones in music video history in all sorts of genres. It was an extremely interactive museum, and you could even learn to play instruments or go in the recording studios and record your own music. There was a massive tornado of instruments that had a few instruments in it actually playing.
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| The tornado of instruments |
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| The back side of the EMP Museum |
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| One of the sides of the Museum. The purple/pink bit is all the massive screen I mentioned |
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| The museum from above. Note the monorail goes through the middle of it. |
After a short tour to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation we went home exhausted.
The next day we walked to the markets and did an underground tour. Seattle has a fascinating history which includes a massive underground sidewalk nextwork, and we really enjoyed the tour. I could talk about it for ages, but I highly suggest reading into it yourself or going on the tour when if you go there. We then did the obligatory trip up the Space Needle, but because it was still overcast, it wasn't at its peak beauty.
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| Thats probably the most blue sky we saw the whole time |
I didn't plan much for Seattle and it ended up being the biggest surprise of the trip. We both really enjoyed our time there. That being said, I think two days was enough, and we were excited to get on the train to head up to Vancouver to meet up with my family. We took a scenic train, and saw a number of bald eagles on the way.
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| The view from the roof of our hotel |
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