Tweets for Today

[veazey21]

• 01:19 It's so cute when Seattle talks about 86 being a record-breaking high, especially when there's zero humidity. #
• 21:34 Guess who gets to spend the night in Texas because American didn't overbook his original flight. This guy. #
• 21:35 Clarification: we got bumped from a cancelled flight, the later flight was way overbooked, and now I'm in Mr.

Comments

[veazey21]

I'll answer the second question first: Not as much as I would have liked. We only had about a day there, and we squeezed in as much as we could.
First and foremost, I was told to go to the Experience Music Project by my uncle. I was not at all disappointed and probably could've spent at least two more hours in there (and the sci-fi museum in the same building) had we not had other pressing concerns. And if it would've fit, I would've gotten a plastic bowl made to look like an LP of Springsteen's "Born to Run." Or a Led Zeppelin shirt, but they don't make those for fat guys. We went up in the Space Needle, because we're tourists and we have to do that sort of thing. We got lots of pictures, of course, and ate lunch somewhere in the Seattle Center.
After lunch, we checked into our hotel and I didn't feel well at all. We waited for about 45 minutes for me to get better and I didn't, so everybody else went on down to Pike's Place and the art museum. I slept. They had a really good time, but didn't get to see any flying fish as the market was closing. And lucky me, I ate a room service hamburger for dinner. But, we knew we wouldn't have a ton of time in Seattle anyway, and we resigned ourselves that we'd just have to go back and visit again when we had more time, much like with San Francisco.

[brighty18]

You pretty much hit the highlights. I love the EMP.

[veazey21]

If I lived in Seattle, I would be a member of that museum so I could go see all the cool exhibits in both. EMP had one on Latin American music in the States, and I didn't know this but Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs (they did "Wooly Bully") were Mexican. And Linda Rondstadt has some Mexican ancestry, too. Plus, they used Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass as an example of pachuco music.