Seattle-Science Fiction Museum

Right next to the Space Needle, are the Science Fiction Museum and the Experience Music Project (also a museum of sorts), both combined in one building and founded by Paul Allen (co-founder of Microsoft). We started with the Science Fiction Museum which was pretty small, but had cool stuff.....

When I walked up to the building, I noticed a strikingly familiar architectural style. Sure enough, the building by designed by one of my favorite architects, Frank Gehry (see my LA, Disney Concert Hall posts).











Star Trek










The Industrial Designer side of me had to take these raygun pics....

Seattle - Space Needle at Night

After going to the Space Needle during the day and going on the Duck tour, we ended up back at the Space Needle for dinner in its revolving restaurant. We went back to the observation deck for some more pics.











I like this blurry one.

Seattle Duck Tour - Part 2 of 2

Here are the rest of the Duck Tour videos.

Another corner, another Starbucks....my kind of city!


"Justin Credible" referred to the duck we were in as "Daisy".


Going in the water, this one is pretty funny.


This guy has more wardrobe changes than a Britney Spears concert!


Another Duck passing us in the water.


Boats from the TV show "Deadliest Catch".


The Hill and Coal Factory from the pics.


Floating Homes....true lake front property.



Well the Gilligan's Island reference in the earlier video was lost on the kiddies, so he's one for them.

Seattle Duck Tour - Part 1 of 2

I am trying to keep these posts in the order they happened on our trip. After the Space Needle, we headed across the street to take a Duck Tour. Duck Tours are available in most major cities that have access to water to boat on. "Ducks" are bus-like land vehicles that can also boat thru water.

Another Duck we passed.






Duck in the Water!








A really cool park for flying kites.


I think this was some sort of Coal factory they made a landmark.




Videos!!!
My videos of the Duck Tour are way better than the pics that I took. You gotta see these!

Our tour guide was a total character. He could've been in one of the National Lampoon movies. His name was Justin Credible, hahaha. Check out his multiple hat changes between videos.


He wanted us to throw our hands up during "Can't Touch This" . Justin made the guy in the front right seat wear a crown since it was his birthday. Too funny.


Another hat...a new phrase: "STARBUCKS!..cha ching!" He made us do it for everyone we passed...which was a lot.


Downtown!!!


This bus driver was hilarious. A lot of people around town seemed to like interacting with the Duck Tour.


I'm having trouble uploading more photos tonight, so I will post the rest of the videos tomorrow as Part 2.

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Mt. Rainier from the Space Needle

I had trouble getting my camera to focus on Mt. Rainier when taking still pictures, but it seemed to focus better for video. Here is my video of Mt. Rainer from the Space Needle.



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