Monday January 27 - around the Space Needle

Only a short blog today and not many photos!!

After a lazy start I wandered up to the Space Needle. Along the way I found a post office to send some postcards and also update the stamps I had purchased as the price just went up by one cent! The area around the Seattle Centre generally looks very tired and in need of a facelift, this does appear to be happening a wee bit. This area was at one time I imagine obviously the centre of things but I get the feeling that is no longer true. Maybe it is because it is a dull Monday in winter that I get this feeling!

Today was not a day for going up the Space Needle even if I had the desire to, it is very cloudy and I bet there would not be views like those we had from the Columbia Tower! So I wandered on and found the Bill and Melissa Gates foundation but, of course, the visitor centre is closed on a Monday!

 

There was an exhibition by Dale Chihuly of his glass works for a garden but as it was $20 to get in I decided not to go. I did catch a couple of photos form the outside. We saw a lot of his work at the Tacoma Glass Museum.

I then found the McCaw Hall behind the Seattle Centre. This is a food court and made a beeline for the Starbucks for a coffee. What a surprise I had when the woman who served me asked me where in New Zealand I was from, when I told her she replied that she was from Taupo, about an hour and a half drive from Napier. She has been here three years and has totally lost her accent!

I wandered back to the hotel and went down to the Wholefood Store to get a few supplies. I am lucky as it is less than five minutes walk away. I spent the evening working on my arrangements for the weekend and until I travel to Chicago on Thursday February 6. There have been some exciting changes to my itinerary!!