Day 3 in Seattle

Tuesday we went to the Experience Music Project which is a museum/interactive music based centre. There is a lot of memorabilia and also interviews you can watch with musicians, producers and writers. There was also a very cool sculpture made out of guitars that went through the middle of the building. The centre was opened by one of the co-founders of Microsoft to house his massive collection of Jimmy Hendrix memorabilia. If you are a die-hard Hendrix fan, this is THE place to visit. Attached to the building is the Science Fiction Museum which if you like your Star Trek, Star Wars and other sci-fi stuff, you would probably quite like it. This was free when you purchase tickets to the EMP and vice- versa so we had a look. We didn't like it. Surprise surprise.

Little fun fact: Forbes voted the EMP/SFM building the 3rd ugliest building in the world.

The guitar sculpture at EMP

Outside EMP

Outside SFM

Next we went up the Space Needle which we both feel was a waste of money. After this we caught the monorail, which has only one stop, to the shopping area and had a look at the stores. I finally caved and bought two books at Barnes and Noble. One is a present, and also happens to weigh a ton, the other is for me :)

Space Needle

View from the Space Needle

Pioneer Square is a small area between Pike Place Market and the sport stadiums in Seattle. I imagine during the summer it is quite a nice bustling place but during the winter, while the buildings and gardens are still nice, most of the people hanging around seemed to be homeless. We didn't really feel all that comfortable so I quickly snapped a picture of a statue that I liked and we headed back to the other side where there was more traffic. Here there is a hilarious store called Utilikilts which is the only store that sells 'useful' kilts. The utilikilts are cargo kilts with pockets, kind of like a kilt with a handyman belt sewn on. Hilarious.

Statue honoring Seattle's fallen fire fighters

Utilikilts!

For dinner we headed across the road from our hostel to a little bar called Rendezvous which we really wish we had found on our first night so we could go back to it because it had a really cool atmosphere with really great food.

Apologies for the delay in posts! The internet at the last two hostels has been unpredictable.