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Alaska Vacation - Day 2 - More Seattle

Wandered through downtown Seattle on Thursday, but due to the weather threatning to "shower" for most of the day (and then actually commencing a light rain around 2 pm), we didn't actually do a whole lot.

Seattle has a whole bunch of pig sculptures, along the same lines as the Terp sculptures that are around Silver Spring, and the Elephant/donkeys that were in DC. I didn't get a picture of it, but the best one I saw was a bobble-head.

We went up the space needle and, though it's a tourist trap, we got a pretty nice view of downtown Seattle and the surrounding area, and I took a few pictures of seaplanes taking off from the lake.

The space needle has a rotating restaurant at the top, but it's so incredibly exorbitantly priced that it's not worth eating there, even for the novelty factor.

We rode the Seattle Monorail to and from the Space Needle. From the speedometer, it reached 45 mph, but the odometer goes up to 80. Hopefully, they never actually drive it that fast...

Afterwards, we want back to Pike Place Market and got lunch, then wandered around in the rain a bit. We were going to go on a tour of the old Seattle underground ruins from a big earthquake long ago, except that the tour was sold out and they were only running them every two hours.

We went back to the Seattle Museum of Art, where they have a bunch of Fort Taruses hanging from the ceiling with lights sticking out. We couldn't get into the actual exhibits without paying, though, even though the signage implied that you could get to some parts of the gallery without paying. Oh well. Not that it really mattered; we were too tired from the travel on Wednesday and the running around the city earlier in the day to really enjoy an art museum, so we just went back to the hotel.