Our first stop in Seattle was to be the flight museum, however unlike the rest of America, road signs and junctions in Seattle are confusing beyond belief. Roads in Seattle frequently split and merge, have both names and numbers (sometimes each road has more than one name or number) and just to top things off, include compass directions.
For example, East Marginal Way (where the museum was located) was sometimes the same as highway 99, but at one point the two roads split and then converge again - so although we never appeared to leave E. Marginal we missed the museum entirely. We doubled back but got confused by the fact that West Marginal Way is not further along East Marginal Way but is in fact a completely different road.
Still, eventually we arrived and donned our purple wrist bands (far too tightly, I always fall for that) so we could access the various parts of the museum. First stop, going on-board Concorde and Air Force One where I regaled Amy with geeky flight facts - although I admit most of my knowledge of Air Force One comes from watching The West Wing so it might not be entirely accurate. The rest of the museum was interesting but doesn't translate well into text (unless you really want to read a long list of the planes we saw) so I won't bore you with details.
After the museum we headed for Dan and Katie's (where we would be staying), foolishly driving through Seattle in rush hour traffic which turned a 15 minute journey into an hour, and almost making another Seattle navigation error (116th St. NE and 116th St. SE are several miles apart).
Once there we had a lovely dinner that Katie had cooked (it makes a refreshing change to have some home cooked food) then went to the local bar for a couple of drinks. It was your typical American bar with pool tables, and an electronic darts machine, which Dan was spectacularly skilled at. Despite claiming he was rubbish at darts he won every game, seemingly able to hit the bulls-eye and any other number on demand. He's a hustler I tell you, beware.
A spot of Wii Sports back at their apartment (I thrashed Dan at Wii Boxing as revenge for the darts) rounded off our first night in Seattle.
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