The first shall be the last

The last full day of my holiday (before travelling) was "First Thursday" in Seattle. This meant that it was the first Thursday of the month, and therefore several attractions were offering free entry. It was also a very wet day, with the heavy rain that was threatened turning up. Still, to have gone this far in the holiday without a fully wet day (considering where I have gone to) was quite good going!

My main stop of the day was the Seattle Art Museum. This, with free entry, had a selection of art from different ages and styles. For my taste there was slightly too much focus on Native American/First Peoples art and not enough contemporary art, but it passed a few hours quite successfully! After this I sheltered from the weather in a coffee shop for a while, and also went round a few shops.

My final stop of the day was the Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum located at the "Seattle Centre" (near the space needle) which was offering free evening entry. The Music part of the museum offered some historical displays (on electric guitars and Jimi Hendrix to name two), often with multimedia aspects. It also offered a hands-on room where you could use many instruments. I took the opportunity to have a go at playing the drums. Not sure I will be taking it up professionally though... The Sci-Fi museum was a bit disappointing though - the focus was on Star Trek/Star Wars and I didn't manage to find one reference to Doctor Who in the whole place!