Seattle Redux

This last weekend I went to Seattle to visit my good college friend that I haven't seen in over a year.  Wait, the fact that I've been out of college for over a year is making me feel old.  Anyways, on this visit my friend and I decided to find places in Seattle that we hadn't been to before.  This wasn't too hard for me.  When I was in college I rarely went out and explored new things without a lot of encouragement from someone.  If I could drag myself out of my apartment and go to the grocery store on the weekend I would give myself a pat on the back.

When I arrived in Seattle Friday we went to Red Robin, a restaurant that for some reason the both of us only visit when we hang out.  I indulged in an egg burger.  It had a fancy name, but I refer to all burgers with an egg on it as an egg burger.  Egg burgers are delicious.  Go find one and eat one.  Now.  Then, whenever you have a burger you will long for it to have egg on it and when you find a place that has an egg burger you will make a fool of yourself in your display of excitement.  Again, that may just be me.

Saturday we went to the Seattle Art Museum.  Lots of interesting art to see there.  We spent over an hour exploring the maze-like wonderment of the museum displays.  I enjoy most forms of art. That was until I saw two blocks of wood piled on each other that I assumed was part of construction, but, to my surprise, this was part of the art exhibit, taped off with a plaque and everything.  You can't tell me that's art.  There's a whole pile of logs in the garage, can I display that at an art museum?  I guess I'm not cultured enough to enjoy a couple of two-by-fours.

We then went to Pike Place Market.  I haven't been to Pike Place Market since I was a kid.  It was a lot bigger than I remember and a hell of a lot busier.  It was near closing time on a Saturday and trying to even look at any of the stands was impossible.  My main goal was to survive and keep the antisocial, introvert in me from completely losing it.  My friend seemed to be enjoying it however, and I had a crepe so it wasn't a complete loss.

Lens glare.

Sunday we decided to do a marathon of cool places.  We started with the Japanese Gardens.  Absolutely stunning.  Have a look.

I have 4 trillion other pictures if you're interested.

We then went to volunteer park and climbed a gorgeous old water tower.

Lens glare working its magic again.

There were around 170 steps up to the top.  I don't know about you, but when I go up or down long stretches of steps my eyes start to go all wonky on me and I try to skip steps and end up looking like a blundering idiot.  Thankfully there weren't a lot of people on the steps so not many people witnessed my embarrassment.   

We then went over to the Asian Art Museum, took a quick look around since we got in for free with our Seattle Art Museum passes.  Then we checked out a Dahlia garden and watched some LARPers having a beanbag battle of epic proportions.  We also saw some people dressed like fairies in another part of the park.  It felt like I was transported into some medieval fantasy world. 

We decided to see Gravity at the Pacific Science Center IMAX 3D before I had to catch a ferry home.  We checked in an hour before the movie, planning to go grab something to eat before the show, but the woman helping us said that we should stand in line instead, since it was sold out.  We grabbed popcorn and my friend went on a burger run so we could brave the hour wait in line.  It felt like there should have been a fun ride at the end of all that waiting.  At least Gravity was a great movie.  I even wrote a review on it, which you can find here.

Sorry for my long posts.  I enjoy rambling on it seems.  And I can never limit the number of pictures I put in the post.  I need you to see them all!