Monday in Seattle

Monday I was on my own. Byron forgot some stuff so I met him for coffee by his office across the street from the Farmer’s Market. This was actually fortuitous as it gave me a chance to sample the “best mac and cheese” from Beecher’s that really was quite delicious. Beechers makes their own cheese right in front of you:

Afterwards I took the monorail to the experience music museum. The museum shares space with the sci-fi musuem. Both were a little underwhelming, but the $12 (student) admission covered both.

The scifi museum had the miniature of the tree of life from The Fountain, which I was enamored with but seemed to confuse everyone else.

Exterior of museum:

I still had about four hours before I’d have to meet Byron for dinner so I checked out the pacific science center…which I didn’t realize was for children. The insect exhibits were cool and the little butterfly room was relaxing (although would have been infinitely more without hearing “britney, don’t touch thayt!” every five seconds).

Giant Scorpion.

An Axolotl. I want one.

I bought a ticket to the planetarium and was sorely disappointed, it cost more than the Griffith park planetarium but was basically an antique light box with a kiddie astronomy quiz. I saw another disgruntled adult sneak out the exit about 5 minutes into it. I was on the other side of the room so I was trapped.

Outside the museum I found some flowers with lots of bees:

I took the monorail back to downtown and headed down to the market to meet Byron after he got off of work. We were going to meet at Beecher’s, but I decided to walk across the street to the bathroom in the farmer’s market. As I crossed I walked past a guy with his wife and kids. Our eyes met and I thought he looked familiar. And then I thought “that guy looks like Tobey Maguire“… he kept looking at me, looking kind of irritated which I later realized (I’m assuming) was because I had my camera in my hand and he was worried I was going to take a picture. After I walked by the nearby teenage girls realized the same thing and started forming a circle. At that point I stepped back and took a quick blurry photo (since everyone else was at that point).