pikes place and emp

Yesterday I went with my roommate and a friend from school out to downtown Seattle to visit some places. Luckily it wasn't raining most of our stay! There was that weirdo drizzle at times. Seriously Seattle what kind of thing is this drizzle stuff? Is it raining? Is it not? WHAT.

First we went to Pike's Place Market. It smelled like fish, though I didn't see them throwing an around. Maybe next time :) Maybs.

I got some apple chips! I've enjoyed cinnamon ones in the past, so I knew I had to try these

It was very crowded in the morning when we went, and I could tell a lot of people were tourists because they stood around taking pictures (kinda like us lulz). I wonder what the best time to go is...?

Next we went to the EMP museum. It's a museum about music and pop culture. I wasn't terribly interested in the music aspects, but they had both Fantasy and Science Fiction exhibits going on at the time, and once I looked into what they contained I knew I HAD TO GO. HAD. TO. GO.

I don't watch Game of Thrones, but my friends were so excited to see this lol

It's not a giant museum, but since we got discounted tickets through Microsoft Prime it was well worth what we paid. Awww yesss discountssss

The chair above was near the entrance to the Fantasy exhibit, which had costumes and probs from a number of well known fantasy films and shows. I was most excited to see pages with handwritten annotations by Tokein, but I couldn't take any pictures of those. Though I hadn't seen all of the things represented, I knew of a lot.

Costumes from The Princess Bride!!!!

The fantasy exhibit was upstairs, while the SciFi one was downstairs. This is what I came to see: the captains chair from Star Trek the original series!!! Gotta love that 60s sci fiiiiiiii

Now with more tribbles!!!

They also had stuff from other star trek series, the matrix, and other series. Including Stargate! I am a big fan of the original movie, though I haven't yet gotten to the television series. I don't care what you think, the original film is great. HATERS TO DA LEFT

Going on in the same time was the Northwest Folklife Festival. I didn't take any pictures here, but we wandered around for a little bit after the museum. There were quite a few people playing instruments of various kinds on the sidewalks. It was like *doo doo doo dooooooo* combined with *vvvveeeeeeee* combined with *taptaptaptaptap* all at the same time. ._. 

The worst part of the day was when we realized the address on the parking stub did not actually correspond to the entrance to the parking garage. It took a while to find our car again... All I wanted to do was faceplant. But I drove home and ate a fudgesicle instead. Close enough

-Stripe