Today was the day...sure the celebration of my birthday here in Seattle is not for a couple more days but this was the day...my dear wife had agreed to do this...and this was no simple thing as she is not a fan of science fiction...
Today we went to the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum! Now we had visited the Experience Music Project side of the building in the past but she had always outright refused to visit the Science Fiction Museum...obviously this is true love...
The buildings architecture is wondrously stunning and the Experience Music Project is a must see for anybody visiting Seattle. Its interactive exhibits, art and collections are fabulous...
The Science Fiction Museum was everything I was hoping for and more...Star Trek, Logan’s Run, Blade Runner, Battlestar Galactica, Star Wars, Dune, Terminator and all the other essentials of such a museum...this collection is to science fiction what the Louvre is to art. There is memorabilia from the start of sci-fi to today...don’t walk or run but beam or warp to the Science Fiction Museum. I will be posting more on the Science Fiction Museum at my Sci-Fi blog Star and Dragon...While Vancouver has its interesting Museum of Anthropology it is not even in the same league as the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum...score one for Seattle...
Later we beamed over to Starbucks to ruminate and converse on what we had encountered...my wife admitted that it was something good to experience with a sci-fi fan...then later related it as good husband pleasing. However I note that when retrieving our umbrellas at the coat check when we were asked if we enjoyed ourselves my wife replied that “it was good.”
We went for another walk in the local park in yet another snazzy neighbourhood and then went shopping...she at Lucy and me at Barnes & Noble...then over to an Asian restaurant with the perfect flavour combos. Comparing shopping between Vancouver and Seattle is more difficult than you could imagine...books cost more in British Columbia than Washington State (although I was just scoping out books to download to my Kindle!). Both cities have the top designers however there is no Lucy in Vancouver. The outlet stores in Seattle are excellent...but Vancouver is also currently cheap for the American dollar...
Next we expand our Seattle excursion and visit a major art attraction...
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