The daily blog of a tourist visiting the USA: Day 2 Seattle

Did you know
The first diagram for the space needle was drawn on a napkin at a restaurant.

There are 72 huge bolts that support the legs of the monument.

We had to ride a lift up the space needle which went at 10 mph. Somebody had painted a beautiful 3D painting of some spiders on top of a building especially for visitors. On top it was very cold and windy. You could a clear view of Seattle, with the tall buildings and the enormous port. There were many cruise ships docked along with some carriers. You could see Century Links stadium and next to it the Safeco stadium. There was a selfie camera where you have to scan your ticket and it takes a picture of you with the surrounding. Inside there were many screens which gave you different pictures of the place at different times of the day. A camera was mounted below the Needle and you could control with some levers above. It was cool and it was like controlling a missile launcher where you aim, zoom in and lock targets. I even took pictures of Seattle in clockwise direction. Soon it was time to leave and we went next doors to Chilhuly Gardens.

Chihuly  Gardens was right next to the Needle. It was an exhibit of the fine of arts made by a man named Dale Chihuly. They were glass exhibits. He used make glass sculptures. By heating it and using different techniques to get different styles and colours into the glass. He then established a factory and students came and learnt from him and they made different sculptures. However during this process he lost his left eye and dislocated his shoulder but still continued to create such beautiful pieces of art. We saw chandeliers and glass bowls and many different pieces that on their own tells the reader their story. However I didn’t understand much of it a and couldn’t crack what he was trying to communicate.

After an amazing visit to the the Museum of flight we finished up with going to another amazing place: Chipotle.

After that we split up into two groups. The ladies went shopping while the men went home along with my sister.

When we got home we went straight down to the basement to play Wipeout. We didn’t come up until we heard people talking upstairs. We had visitors. Everybody grabbed their Nerf guns and quietly crept up. It turned out to be my aunt. Since she also lived in Seattle she had come to visit us. We had a good pizza party. And when she left we all were put to bed.