Aug 1, 2013
One of the organizations that C.J. helps support is the Pac. Sci. Ctr. at Seattle Center, the site of the 1961 World's Fair. The attraction this season was a traveling exhibit called Imaginate which presented various examples of innovation from straw bale house construction to paper airplanes. One of the exhibits provided fabric wings that could be slipped on over your arms. A counter indicated how many beats per minute were achieved. The wings were nowhere near large enough to achieve a glide, much less a flight but were nicely constructed. A nearby scale showed that C.J., for example, would need a wingspan of 5.25 meters (about 16 ft - hmmm, much less than the span of a hang glider).
Near the theater there was a good display on the International Space Station. One of the animations showed an interesting timeline of the construction of the space station. We also toured the large, new interactive exhibit on health.
When it got to be lunch time, we went over to what used to be called the Center House [Remember when there used to be a spherical, glass elevator called the Bubbleator?] and is now back to its original name, the Armory. It's still a large room lined with fast food kitchens. We opted for one with a Middle East theme, Kabob, and ordered a falafel sandwich and a gyro. Both were freshly made and passably good.
The science center was quite busy with foreign tour groups and lots of day camp kids in green t-shirts plus the usual local families. By 1545 we were ready to head for home. Even that time was a little too late as traffic was backed up on Mercer and Denny didn't seem that much better. The GPS kept insisting that we take the route through downtown; that worked out maybe a little better. Once we were on the freeways, we could use the HOV lanes and we made good time.
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