We started our day in the Amtrak station, which is not the best of places to start your day unless you like being accosted by dirt-bags wearing mismatched shoes and asking if you can 'spare a little change'. I pointed out the rip in my jacket and sent him away with a flea in his ear – which is probably the best meal he had got in weeks.
We then headed for the world famous (at least in Seattle) Pike Market which is home to the world's first Starbucks (so now we know who to blame) and lots and lots of antique (or as I like to call them - junk) shops. There was also some really cool shops selling old magazines and posters from the 40s, 50s and 60s, and some old fella who had dressed his cat up in a dinner jacket and informed all listeners that his cat could tell the future, I wondered why he didn't just get the cat to mention who will win the 5.15 at Aintree so he didn't have to be standing out in the rain.
In the afternoon we put on our anoraks and entered full geek mode to visit the Science Fiction Museum – which was bloody brilliant. I'm not sure why I got so excited about seeing big bits of painted foam rubber (various Star Wars characters) or bits of moulded plastic (Terminator skulls) but I did, and we were in there for ages.
Our final port of call was the Seattle Music Museam which predictably had huge homages to hometown heroes Jimi Hendrix and Nirvana and bizarely another one to crap 80s soft rock 'legends' Heart – you know the band with 2 fat birds who only appeared in videos from the neck down.
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