Mary-MKS <mks.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alec Cawley wrote:
> > I have one day of leisure - next Sunday, to be precise - in Seattle.
> > What should I do/see?  was thinking of the Museum of Flight, because I
> > like aeroplanes. But even so, I think that would do the morning nicely;
> > what should I do in afternoon/evening? Or is there some other must-see?

> When we had one day in Seattle last year, we went to Pike Place Market
> and up the Space Needle, out of a vague sense that we were supposed to,
> and because it was easy. And that was a fun day.

> But my happier memories from going to university in the area include
> sailing on Puget Sound, hiking around Mount Ranier, the zoo and gardens
> and wooded paths around Point Defiance (in Tacoma, which also has a
> museum of glass I've been wanting to see), the Asian Art museum in
> Seattle, taking the ferries to other islands (and once, up to Victoria,
> Vancouver Island), picking blackberries that grew *everywhere*, an
> outdoor Celtic music concert at a winery, camping on the Olympic
> Peninsula, driving across the Narrows Bridge, shopping for strange Asian
> foods at Uwajimaya (google it) and the mother of all music festivals,
> Bumbershoot--alas, not until September.

> Actually we combined the Bumbershoot trips with trips to the
> fun-but-overpriced Experience Music Project and to the Pacific Science
> Center, which are both right next to the Space Needle, so they might be
> easy to squeeze in. My favorite part of the Pacific Science Center was
> the mathematics exhibit that showed 3D models of the Riemann-zeta
> function and a portion of a hypersphere, along with some non-Euclidean
> geometries... But I realize that's not to everyone's taste.

> If you can possibly squeeze any of the rest of that in, I recommend it all.

> Oh, and one other thing we planned to do on our "one day" and didn't get
> around to: a drive in movie (http://www.sterlingrealty.com/drivein.asp)

> -Mary