day 20 duck !

Lunch at pike market, rk had a really bad crab pasta, which he rated worst meal of the trip, until i reminded him of the meal at the grand canyon.

Caught monorail back to the space needle (as with most monorails, except maybe singapore/japan, it was a complete waste of time).

Went on a duck tour, driver with mucho comedy, such as butterfly was known as caterpillar hosue and the baseball catch outside of ball park.

Apparently down close to the water, they built a lot of the city too low and the bathrooms in the buildings were actually below the water line, so at high tide ... well yer it came back up. So the y had to raise the level of the road and the first floor of most of the buildings is really the 4th floor. But the old side walks still exist 3 floors down, and they run tours thru them at night. We should have gone on one of these tours but didn't have time.

Went up to the top of the space needle, pretty good view.

Good thai much food, 21 zagat rating.

Then back to the space needle for a night view, night view might be better than day view.

Came up with new rule for when on holiday, you should get to the highest point and go on some sort of duck/bus tour the first day.

PS: Earth quake in LA today, 5.4.