Seattle Day 2

Yes I managed to get up for 6am but I didn't sleep properly thinking I would oversleep. I went down to move the car (now the only one left parked on the street) I drove around the car-park and waited for it to open (40 minutes late) and parked up. Back at the hostel I had a coffee but was now so tired from not sleeping I went back to bed for a couple of hours and slept really well waking around 12:30. I had planned to go to the Space Needle a huge tower that literally towers over Seattle. The views on a good day are supposed to be fantastic however today was not a good day, rain squalls and low cloud persisted all day; I wasn't paying $25 to go and look at the inside of a cloud! I did walk up to the tower base as it's in a Exhibition Area Seattle walking first past the Convention Centre which was crowded with loads of teenagers dressed up in weird Manga outfits, hmm, I've seen some sights at Middlewood with the Live Role Players; but this took the biscuit. I followed the monorail which runs from the Convention Centre to the Exhibition Area and looked around the various buildings up here. There were two other 'museums' adjacent to the tower, one about Science Fiction and the other about Music neither of which caught my fancy however the building they were in was a like a huge metallised lump of Plasticine which the monorail passed through. Around the building was being piped all sorts of odd music, one minute, The Beatles, the next a German Um-Pa Band, the next some atmospheric 'Muzak' it must have been connected with the music museum, but next to this building it was quite surreal. Further into the 'park was a large bowel in the ground surrounded by a low wall you could sit on, in the centre was a huge 12ft high silver globe which had jets of water shooting out at various angles. It wasn't until you sat at on the wall around the fountain that you realised that the water jets were being fired in sequence to music which was being played through speakers on the inner side of the wall and you could only really hear them once you were 'inside' the ring. Even though it was probably about 10deg. there were still a load of kids running around and through the huge jets that were spouting from the globe. I would imaging in the summer it's packed here but there were only about 4 or 5 brave/daft souls in there today. In fact as I left there the wind got up and it was decidedly cold so I walked back to the hostel and decided to chill out there for the rest of the evening.