The Gang Does the Needle, misses on the Museum, gets woozy on a great beer, fantastic salad, and generally chills with cool [Sun 18]

 After getting up at 8, we cleaned up, chilled for a while, had oats and fruits for breakfast and walked by the highway to a sketchy-looking bus-stop. There we took a bus ride that took forever to get us to main Seattle City. The plan for the day was to do the Space Needle, attend the Museum of Pop, and whatever else would come our way.

We went to the Needle at 12 ish, and discovered that the tickets were all booked out until 4.15. Which was a bit of a bummer, but we didn't need to worry, we had the Museum! Which actually...we did not. Because it was a weekend and the last day of exhibition for the Minecraft exhibit so it was all sold out. After spending half an hour dazed and confused on what we wanted to do and how much things sucked, we decided to get some food. So we walked over to this local chain called Zeke's pizza where the server and the cashier were extremely rude but the salad we ordered was fantastic. And the beer I ordered, a locally brewed one specially for the chain was perfect. One drink, ten percent, and I felt like the king of the world, as if I could very much rule every being like a benevolent dictator.

We puttered about after Zeke's for a while, and then eventually it was time to go into the Space Needle. We spent an hour in their gift shop before our turn. And the experience was totally worth the cost of entrance, which wasn't cheap. You get a really good sense of where things are at, and what you need to be looking, you see the mountains, the lakes, Mt. Rainier, the rest of the city, and the suburbs. And there's these massive planetary gears slowly rotating the top floor, which is...quite an experience. The lower floor is transparent, so took a few really cool pics in there.

We took the online taxi to the nearest train station, discovered they were having shuttles, so walked couple of more blocks on the shuttle. Changed to a train after the shuttle was over. Spent 20 minutes trying to pay for Orca card to get into the train, but the machine wouldn't take our money at all, even though other people could do it just fine. The transit cop was so frustrated he just let us in.

At Othello we divided tasks. I went into Safeway to get some supplies, I was at Domino's to collect our order. We took the bus back home because it was really tiring and hot and I didn't want the pizza to get cold. We had warmish pizza, and drinks for dinner, watched tv, talked a bunch, and went to sleep, ready to make more limited plans for the following days.