Seattle Space Needle

The conference officially over, capped with an insightful and perspective-shifting presentation by Bruce Schneier of information security fame, we've returned via monorial to Seattle Center. Three sites in this area are on our agenda, the Science Fiction Museum, the Experience Music Project, and the Space Needle.

Of the two museums, I actually enjoyed the Experience Music Project the most, contrary to my expectations. There just weren't as many interactive exhibits in the SFM, whereas the EMP had a cool Sound Lab that walked you through playing the various instruments. I am more adept with drums and keyboard than fretted instruments, but it was all fun.

We are sitting now at the cafe in the Space Needle, after having absorbed and photographed every exhilerating element of the view from the sky deck. I don't know what it is about heights that give such a thrill, but the wind whipping around me and a cityscape sprawled out before me always gives me a natural high.

You can see Mount Rainier perfectly, it is so clear-skied today.

Well, my hot chocolate awaits. Later tonight we'll be joining the rest of our friends at a burlesque show. Should be an interesting experience...

Later: We've come all the way to Seattle, famed for seafood, just to wind up eating the best barbecue we've ever had. Jones BBQ in Columbia City, just around the corner from the theatre. Amazing.

So far, at the burlesque, the best exhibitions have been the trapeze artists, sexily soaring on skeins of silk high above the stage. The folk musicians, not so amusing to me, though their after-acts of balancing and juggling are impressive..

The show we're attending is hosted by the talented Tamara the Trapeze Lady, whose website should you care to visit is www.trapezelady.com