Downtown Seattle on Saturday

Yesterday, we met up with some friends that were visiting from Portland. We had been planning on going to Leavenworth, but there was too much snow and ice to make it up there safely. We decided to go to the EMP (Experience Music Project) museum instead.

The pic above is one of the fabulous gingerbread houses at the Sheraton this year. Every year, they have a display of gingerbread houses for charity. This year's theme was "Superheroes", and the house above is full of ordinary heroes doing extraordinary things every day.

After looking at the gingerbread houses, we took the Monorail to the Seattle Center and went to the EMP. Even though it's been here in town for years, I've never actually been in it. Chloe and I really enjoyed the science fiction exhibit. It had many movie props that were really cool to see.

We went to the music part of the museum after that, and saw the exhibits on guitars and the "Northwest Passage" showing Northwest bands and trends. Ray and I decided that we were born too late - it looked like the kids from the '50's and '60's were having the most fun! Louie, Louie, anyone?

For lunch, we went to the Pike Place Market, and had a a really good lunch, can't remember the name of the place, though!

Well, gotta go...Survivor's starting!