Waving So-long I'm moving on//The road before me is everchanging...

---february 29 1:00pm---

Well, I didn't think. it'd happen, but we got to go to the museum of Science-Fiction and the Experience Music Project this morning, That was cool. the Sci-fi museum was so amazing. The whole place was themed a to be like a hitech space ship. It also has these uberly cool 3D windows where it showed all sorts of famous space craft from Star Trek and Star wars and other movies/TV shows of the sort. Next to it there were touch screen computers that told you about each ship and showed video clips from the programs each was from. There were also lots of- costumes arcs sci-fi weapons... Ooh, and robots! There was Robbie The Robot. And this other one too... forgot what it was from though. Hmm. Aw well. There was also R2D2. Oh, and there was also the robot from the Terminator too. Kinda scary...LOL! Wouldn't wanna see that jump out of my closet at night! Or in the daytime, for that matter. Then if you go to the lower level, there is this big area that looks like the insides of a space ship, which is pretty amazing. The floor even vibrates every now and then and there are occasional engine sounds. So cool!! Then also in that space ship room there is what appears to be a window and there are all these 3D space ships from different TV shows & movies flying around. Below that window are these little screens with buttons and you can select one of the ships that are flying around and then the little screen will show clips from the respective movie or tv program and tell you about the ship. I think that was probly my fave part of the Sci-Fi museam =) That and the afforementioned robots.

Up another staircase from the space ship room is the Experience Music Project. That is also pretty amazing... I never did decide which I liked more between it and the Sci-Fi museum. in the main entrance to it there is this HUGE tornado-shaped tower made of guitars, drums, a cello, some more guitars....It was really neat!! It was also the only place they'd let you take pictures, which kinda stank (yeah, you know me...shudder bug!), but hey, at least you were allowed a photo of SOMETHING. They have a lot of stuff about the history of music (mostly rock) in that place...one of my fave things was this whole room that was dedicated to guitars. It was amazing *grins* can ya tell I love guitars!? hehe :) It was really neat seeing all the different variations of guitars over the years. There was even a steel guitar! It never really made it big though cause apparently the heat from the stage lights would make the metal expand during shows and then the guitar would go out of tune....not so great.

Another thing that is pretty cool is this room where you can be on stage and actually see what its like to be the person on stage at a rock concert- complete with lights and a whole array of digital fans (or so I was informed by a sign). It's a really cool idea! They record you on video and take your picture too and then afterwords you can buy a poster of you being a rocker or a DVD of the performance. I didn't do it though cause it was kinda expensive (10 bucks for a poster or 20-something for the DVD). And let's face it- I'm not THAT great...yet. lol but I am working on my musical abilities. Taking choir and working at guitar.

The other favorite room of mine at the EMP was where they had all of these soundproof glass rooms you could go into and play the instruments. There were little computer screens by each to show you how to play simple tunes on them...that was cool! I tried out a base guitar and fooled around with this big funny thing that made all these drum sounds =) they even had a thing set up where you could use electric guitar foot pedals! I like the Wah-wah pedal- it's pretty sweet... now I wanna get one for my guitar...

----5:00 pm---

We just got back from the Space Needle-- Three words: THAT.WAS.AWESOME!!!!!!!! I can now say I've "lived the view", as it says on the website. The weather was absolutely perfect, too! It couldn't possibly have been better =D And it wasn't as crowded as I'd feared, either. So not only did I get some awesome photos, but Nathaniel and I also got to film a short action movie up there too! Who could possibly ask for a cooler movie setting than that?? I think that worked out pretty good. While we were up there, Nathaniel got freaked out by some dudes in turbans who looked like potential terrorists....lol. But nothing happend, so that's good.

I should post the video of the ride up some time.... it's kinda cool =) funny thing is that the elevator dude clames that it's a ten second ride up, but when I watched the video back, I checked the time of it and it was actually like 40 seconds o_0 lol, must be some sort of mental trick they do for people who are affraid of heights or elevator rides to make them think they're not on it that long XD

-----10:00 pm----

I"ve not felt all too grand this evening...blarg. The new nextdoor neighbors in the adjoining room have been playing loud music and smoking something weird that smells like a musty old basement. Eeeww. I felt pretty bad earlier...but then I hung out downstairs at the computers fro like half an hour. That was great. Talked to Anna and she's hoping to try and see me tomorrow when we go down to the museum of flight =) Also talked to Bo too, which is always fun. I was greeted with "you're alive!" LOL. Well, after our first introduction to Seattle's drivers I'm lucky to be. Well, everybody's getting ready for bed, so I better quit blogging on my pocket pc... *rubs cramping hand*

*yawn*

Good night!