Pacific Science Center -- Mr. Wizard Would Approve

I finally felt some of that famous Seattle rain on Saturday. It felt nice. Not nice enough to stand around in though, so we decided to spend the afternoon at Pacific Science Center near the Space Needle.


We were starving when we got there so we found Center House Bistro and Bar in the Seattle Center just outside the Pacific Science Center, a much mellower venue that the PSC cafeteria.


I recommend the ABC Sandwich (apple slices tossed in honey, applewood smoked bacon, and cheddar cheese on toast) and a Manny's Pale Ale. Mmmm. It's always good to start an outing on a full belly. Beer makes mom and dad a little more laid back too. Okay, we're ready to get our science on at the...


Outside there were fountains and quick! look! Blue Angels zooming by.


Sage is a science nut. He devours books on insects, ocean creatures, dinosaurs, machines, The Way Things Work, skeletons, and the human body and it's functions. This place had all of that.


Plus live creatures to bother, I mean pet:

And a butterfly room:

There's something for everyone...


And if that weren't enough, there was an entire exhibit dedicated to the science of the Circus.

We stayed until closing time and got back to the car to find a $72 @$##$% parking ticket. In our hunger and excitement, we forgot that Seattle parking garages make you pay first, at a little kiosk hidden on some other floor. We're used to paying an attendant as we drive out... but not $72!

That's a crappy note to leave on. Here, this is better: