Becky and I had an afternoon and evening to explore Seattle, so we didn’t get to see a whole lot. Luckily, it wasn’t raining, so we were able to do a good bit of walking around the city. We went up in the Space Needle, toured Experience Music Project, and had an excellent Mexican dinner at Peso’s.

Here’s the Space Needle’s underbelly. As you can see, Seattle’s most famous landmark is not very tall. Actually, the Space Needle stands 605 feet tall and was constructed in 1962 and opened during the World's Fair.

Signage defined. KOMO’s office is situated caddy-corner to the Space Needle.

We wasted about US$7 on a ride aboard the Seattle Center Monorail. We thought we’d be taken around Seattle and would get to see a good chunk of the city, but we were wrong. This little horsey took us down a stretch of track that couldn’t have been more than a mile-and-a-half long, stopped, returned on the same stretch of track, and the ride was done. The whole ride took about five minutes. The train itself was clean, comfortable, and modern. If the track were stretched out about fifteen times its current length, riding the train would be worth seven bucks.

I snapped this photo inside Experience Music Project, the personal project of Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen. Mac users will instantly recognize the alert box in the center of the poster, which asks if the user would like to save his or her Adobe Photoshop document. If I’d been this poster’s designer, I never would have thought to add such a screenshot. I’m guessing the designer was trying to instill a live feeling in the viewer as if the viewer were standing behind the designer as the poster was being developed.

Here’s another photo from Experience Music Project. This guitar sculpture is one of only a few things visitors are allowed to photograph. A zillion guitars and other instruments are fastened to this cone-shaped structure that widens as it gets taller.