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(Mostly) Monday – sightseeing in Seattle

This is going to be a photo post. I have the photos prepped so I might as put them up. I’m supposed to be boarding my flight home at 10:30 and it’s 10:15 now so I don’t think I’ll have time to write that much anyway. Also, it’ll give me something to do on the plane.

So pic spam it is!!

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Jedi Knights at ECCC. The guy on the far right actually threw me because he bore a striking resemblance to Alec Guinness.

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My peeps! L – R: Jared, Gay, Brian, John and Tim.

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I kinda look happy in this photo. Kinda. Still hate having my picture taken.

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Arty-farty shot of the lights at the convention centre.

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A variant of these in San Francisco gave George Lucas the idea for the AT-AT walkers first seen in The Empire Strikes Back.

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Seattle skyline as seen from Pike Place Market.

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Part of the roof of the Experience Music Project, Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame (EMP|SFM) that’s right next to the Space Needle. I’m wondering if it was designed by the same architects who did the Walt Disney Music Hall in LA. (And indeed it was – Frank Gehry designed both buildings)

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Shiny, pointy gold sticks next to EMP|SFM.

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This tickled me. It rotated and little lights lit up to mimic water falling from the elephant’s trunk.

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The Space Needle.

Views from the observation deck at the Space Needle, 520 feet above ground.
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This is the roof of the Experience Music Project, Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame building as seen from the observation deck. Pretty wild!

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So I might’ve tweaked the colours a tiny amount but not that much! The wall of the Sci-Fi museum really was that gorgeous purple colour.

And that’s it. Now I have a really long flight. My, won’t that be fun?