microsoft trip - day 2
Solo dim sum is a bit dangerous, but the concensus on seattle.eats is that Hong\'s Garden is the best dim sum place in town, so I figured I had to give it a try. It was really good. Cheaper than Cedar Street Seafood too, I think. It\'s just too bad I couldn\'t try more. I ate too much as it is.
I got lost a bit getting up into Seattle, since I didn\'t feel like taking the freeway. But that was okay. This is a neat town.
I did all the regular touristy things. I checked out the Experience Music Project, which was pretty cool. I got a quick drum lesson. I kind of suck. In the same building is a science fiction museum and hall of fame, which utterly rocked. Unfortunately, they told me I wasn\'t allowed to take pictures. Which was sad because they had authentic props and costumes. Everything from Star Trek (the original captain\'s chair!) to Babylon 5 (Londo, Delenn and G\'Kar\'s costumes!). They even had a fun gun from the Happiness Patrol episode of Doctor Who! Cool!
*cough*
And all of that is right beneath the Space Needle. So, of course, I had to.
I\'ve got some nice shots of Seattle from the needle, which I might post later. After I did all that, I went down to the Pike St market where they toss fish around (That\'s a link to a minimally encrypted video. I have another video of a cool street performer guy, but that\'ll have to wait till I can get back so I can throw a decent codec at it. Check out the fish tossing guy! I\'ve seen these guys on TV a few times ( which probably means I watch too much Food Network)). I really wanted to take the monorail there (Monorail!!), but it\'s not operational, sadly. I just drove instead. Boring, I know.
Oh, and then on the way back to the hotel I passed a derailed train. I didn\'t take a picture of that because the train guys looked a bit harried (understandably) and I figured it would be a bit rude.
And now, it doesn\'t feel like 7pm. I still don\'t feel hungry at all, thanks to lunch. It seems a shame to waste my per diem for meals, though. I\'m just too tired to go out anywhere. Oh well. This is probably a good thing. Means I\'ll be up and alert for the Microsoft folks tomorrow. I hope they appreciated it.