Seattle Day 3

Ellie again woke up early but went back to bed so we ended up sleeping until about 8:30 Seattle time...it is going to be hard to switch back to Raleigh time! We had breakfast and then walked over to the Experience Music Project.

This is one of the major thing Jason has been looking forward to and it was pretty cool. He got to play drums on stage in a simulation of a real show and Ellie and I got to watch his band "Ella's Headphones" from the lobby. We also jammed in the Sound Lab. Ellie and I sang into the big microphone and she loved beating on the drums. They also had all sorts of memorabilia like Hendrix's guitars and Michael Jackson's sequin jacket and glove. Ellie even got to feature in her own album cover:

We also visited the Sci Fi Museum which is connected to the EMP. In the Sci Fi Museum we saw ET, Donatello the Ninja Turtle, and all kinds of dorky Star Trek stuff (we walked quickly through this!)

Around lunchtime we ventured up the Space Needle again this time during daylight. We sat inside for awhile and just enjoyed the view.

I liked this better than last night because it wasn't so chilly and we could kind of figure out what we were looking at better. Seattle is a big city! We enjoyed seeing the sound from up high and looking for our hotel.

We had lunch in the Seattle Center food court (Fish and Chips again for Jason...3 days in a row and a burger for me) and walked back to the hotel. At the hotel we picked up the car and drove over to meet Jack and Paula at the big Fremont Troll.

It is very strange....just an enormous troll under a bridge and he is grasping a VW Beetle. Tourists flock to this thing! After the troll we all drove over to the Chittenden Locks and got to watch 2 boats go through the locks.

We also walked through the Fish Ladder and saw 1 salmon! We were happy to see one as it isn't really the right time of the year to see the Salmon going

up the ladder. Very cool! Then Jack took us by a beach because Jason wanted to see what the beaches were like. It was neat to see how different they are from the NC beaches. Lots of rocks and they have fire pits right out on the sand. Pretty cool! The water was really clear and pretty.

On the way back to the hotel we spotted Theo's Chocolate which is a local chocolate factory that is pretty big. We stopped by and tried all the yummy samples! We bought some chocolate to take back to work and headed back to the hotel.

Unfotunately when we got to the hotel we discovered that we left our beloved ERGO baby carrier at the chocolate shop so Jason drove back over to pick it up. On the way home he picked up Phad Thai and Fried Rice from Bahn Thai which is just down the street from our hotel. It is super good Thai food! I think we'll have a little bit of Key Lime Pie for dessert and then head to bed. Tomorrow will be a busy day for us and then we fly home at 11 PM. We still haven't decided what we'll do in Seattle but we'll figure that out sometime :).