I Said I Would, And I Have

I have said it before and perhaps, by the grace of God, I'll say it again one day, that we are like geese and we mate for life. For those of you who don't know, this is the 25th anniversary of our wedding. That's right, we've made 25 complete orbits around the sun together and have continued to share common goals and have remained as attracted to each other as a couple of oppositely charged atoms. Of course, at this point my metaphore must end as it would be illadvised to describe one member of this union as positive and the other negative. Thank you for understanding.

Anyway, I know that some of you were privileged to see a short post on Facebook yesterday. For those of you who didn't, we took the opportunity of this occasion, to take a short trip up to Seattle. Though to some it might be considered unusual, we chose to invite our seventeen year old, Jonathan, along for company.

It has been a number of years since we've been to Seattle because my impression the last time I was up there was "Why in the world does this place need three more people?" Well, nothing about Seattle has changed that I could tell. It still doesn't need three more people. We were elbow to elbow with folks everywhere we went. Perhaps I have gotten a bit more tolerant of crowds through the years as I didn't feel as nervous as I remember feeling last time we were there which had to be 13 or 14 years ago.

Let me share some of our adventures from this latest trip. Our first stop in Seattle was EMP/SFM. That is the Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum.

Firstly, the building itself looks like some kind of modern art exhibit. In the words of Commander Spock the architecture was "facinating".

The museum itself is equally as interesting. Though I don't know to what degree exactly, let's say it has been significantly sponsored by Trailblazer owner and Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen. Let me share some of the highlights of the tour through the museum. I hope you can forgive the photography as it is dimly lit inside and our cameras are not low lux models.

Some of the exhibits are reproductions but many are actual models and costumes worn in Hollywood productions. Additionally, there are communicators and weapons and spaceships and robots.

Now we originally came to this museum to see the sci-fi stuff but the music side of the museum is probably equally worthy of one's attention. It just happens that our family unit has a very shallow interest in the history and developement of American music so though we wandered through, we neglected to take very many pictures. However, let me show you a few of the attactions one will encounter in that side of the museum.

This piece of artwork was too large to get an adequate image. It is made of over 700 musical instruments.

These are costumes in a collection that will be displayed for the next few months that were worn by the Supremes on stage. There are a lot of video exhibits with interviews of performing artists. Interestly, there were a bunch of broken guitars and other musical intruments that had been smashed at the close of certain band acts. I guess it is no wonder why it costs so much for tickets to a concert if the band is going to have to go out and buy new guitars after every show.

There are also a lot of interactive displays. There were tiny sound rooms where one can play a guitar or drum and then replay it back to yourself. I suppose that would be a lot of fun for someone with some musical inclination. This part of the museum seemed to be quite popular with the patrons and I am quite sure that the museum is very proud of this feature as well.

Ok. This post has gone on a little long so I'll save some of our other adventures for a little later. Don't worry, I'll be back!