We slept in nice and late today and hit Seattle again. First stop: fish and chips to make Tara happy. We went to Ivars, just off the street. I at first wanted to eat there in the restaurant for the clam chowder, but I didn’t care so much after the goodness of what we had yesterday. Mmmm.
I was really happy to get my fish and chips.
Nate really wanted to get a seagull to eat out of his hand. It took them a bit, but he got two of them to take a french fry from him.
I liked the sign.
In case you can’t read it, it says, “Seagull lovers are welcome to feed seagulls in need (Please do not feed pidgeons).” When Nate was tired of waiting for a seagull to fly in and grab the fry, he just threw it into the water and we got to watch them fight over it.
We walked up to the Space Needle again and went to the science fiction museum. I wouldn’t have been as excited to go if it weren’t for the Jim Hensen exhibit that was also there. Though I admit the science fiction part was pretty cool. And I was pretty surprised at how many of the movies and shows I’d seen. We weren’t allowed to take pictures of the exhibits, but we took as many as we could. Including the bathroom doors, which made me laugh.
I loved the Jim Hensen area. I forget how many different kinds of things he created. We were allowed to take pictures in the “recording studio.” They had a bunch of puppets and you could pretend to put on a show. We were fine just posing for a picture. I was Jimi Hendrixs and Nate’s was a mix of Animal and some drummer we can’t remember.
The building was part of the “Experience Music Project” so there were lots of things to do with locals who had made it big, especially Jimi Hendrix, as well as other artists who were big and made a big impact in the music world. And we have to include Michael Jackson, of course. They already had the glove that was in their collection out in the middle of a big stage with lights on a big screen sync’d to music from the Jackson Five. And I had to have a picture…for postarity.
We also bought a stuffed Cookie Monster for the little cookie monster growing inside of me. I know how it’s going to be, the rest of our kids are going to be upset that we bought more cool stuff for our first kid than for the rest of them. Oh well.
We tried to visit the Jones Soda corporate office, but had some issues finding the place. I don’t think we walked quite far enough, but we sure walked pretty far. It was fun to actually see Seattle, parts that most tourists don’t really go to since it’s pretty much every day sort of life for the people who live there. After 5 we decided it was probably closed so we headed back to the ferry with a slight stop at Pike’s to get some dinner. Nate really wanted a “yeero” from a Greek stand he saw yesterday (I like that they spell “gyro” phonetically so the rest of us will pronounce it correctly). It was very good.
We stopped at a pirate shop on our way back to the ferry. We almost bought these…it was just a little too expensive.
