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Seattle is a Playground for Adults

Our first morning in Seattle, after having breakfast at our hotels restaurant, we hopped on the shuttle to the Seattle Center, which is home of the Space Needle, the Experience Music Project, theaters, parks, performing arts venues, fountains and the Key Arena. We had eagerly been anticipating the EMP and we weren’t disappointed. The design of the building was totally awesome; it’s the brain child of Frank Gehry. Inside were well-designed exhibits all about Jimi Hendrix, an interesting history of the guitar and of the music scene concerning the Pacific Northwest. The highlight was the music lab! We got to play with all the musical instruments: drums, electric guitar and the keyboard; we had a blast!
From there, we took a brisk walk to the waterfront and went through the Olympic Sculpture Garden. The weather was absolutely perfect, which made our expedition more pleasant. We back-stepped to the Seattle Center and found an Italian Heritage Festival taking place in another area. They had grape stomping, food booths, cooking demos by some famous TV chefs, singing groups, a cured meat competition, a bocce ball tournament, a beer and wine garden, which had a strolling accordion player. Then there were the vendors selling everything from olive oil to t-shirts. We soaked up the fantastic atmosphere and had a cannoli!

We returned to our hotel, which wasn’t too far away from the Seattle Center. We found this luxury hotel on this site: http://www.seattleluxuryhotels.com, it had the best location and reasonably priced. We were beating ourselves up for forgetting to take the elevator to the top of the Space Needle. There were too many wonderful distractions. Besides, there’s always tomorrow, since we plan to head back to the Seattle Center and see what surprises are in store for us and to play along.

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