Thursday's main activity was supervising the students on a trip to the Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum. Paul and I took the opportunity to visit the rock band experience. We named our band The Carlin Blankout, in homage to George, whose book we'd been sampling throughout the trip. We got souvenir posters, and I got to keep my guitar pick! Although, I think I actually found the Rock Band game to be a more authentic experience. I enjoyed the Jimi Hendrix exhibit of the moment, which included several tables with embedded iPods for listening to the entire Hendrix catalog. I got to listen to one of my favorite songs, "Up From the Skies". It's not one of his best-known tunes, and it's a much lighter sound, but that's why I like it. See the YouTube video below:
And I discovered something super neat that I'll buy when I have money again: a bowl made out of an actual record. How cool is that?! The company also makes coasters, clocks, and picture frames from album material. Clearly, this is a line of products made for me :-)
On Friday, after waving goodbye to the bus, Paul and I met up with our friend/host Sean in Seattle's financial district. He and his wife KB had housed me once before and again gamely offered their place as lodging. Sean was going to be out of town that weekend, and KB had been in Colorado all summer, so there was plenty of room. Sean had a few hours to spare before leaving, though, and informed us that it was 7/11/08... aka Free Slurpee Day. Paul and I were unaware of, and thus even more delighted by, this fact.
While enjoying that serendipity, Sean, Paul, and I meandered around the Seattle Center (surprisingly close to 7-11...who knew?) and spontaneously decided to buy a few tickets and go on the rides: Music Express (I'm not sure how to describe it... It stayed low to the ground and raced briskly around an oval track. Is there a name for this?), Bumper Cars, a giant slide and... are you ready for this? A ROLLER COASTER! I went on a roller coaster! I was a bit freaked out but enjoyed myself immensely. It was a bummer that our time with Sean was short (and that we didn't get to see KB this trip), but we packed in a lot of fun :-)
Before settling down at The Sullivan Castle for the night, we met our friend Chris for dinner at The Ram in University Village. She joined us at Sean & KB's briefly and helped me assess directions to my WEST-B exam in the morning. To everyone's surprise, we discovered that the exam was in Puyallup. Yikes! It looks like we were going to have to get up early...
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