EMP, UW, and arboretum

Since we are cheapskates (not out of principle but necessity), we decided that the only way we could visit the EMP (Seattle's rock and roll museum) was if we went on their free admission night (the first Thursday of every month). We were happy that we got inside before the lines started to extend outside the museum and wrap around the block. It was fun to go around, but it's hard to really enjoy exhibitions when there are SO. MANY. PEOPLE. I felt like we were swept around in a massive current of museum-goer bodies. Luckily, we ebbed and flowed right past the guitar sculpture in the middle, and we were able to swim against the current long enough to take some pictures (although you can see a better picture of the sculpture here):

I know this picture is fuzzy, but I think you can see the different colors of the instruments better in this photo

The fountain at the Seattle Center (outside the EMP)

Sam wasn't too excited to see the Space Needle for the first time. He cared more about making propeller noises and mimicking the airplanes flying overhead.

I'm still working on my preparing my article for publication. Right now I'm trying to get copyright approval for all of the images that I want to include with my text. Unfortunately, I didn't write down the caption information for a picture that I used in my thesis, and I had to go to the UW library for 30 seconds to verify the information in a book. (Word to the wise: write down all of your image sources in extreme detail!) It was a little inconvenient, but we planned a day trip around the errand and spent time in the arboretum near campus.

Knowledge feels so tangible and exciting when I'm walking around college campuses. I love it. I also love cool libraries like the one at UW:

J and Sam standing outside one of the UW libraries. Who wouldn't want to study inside a Neo-Gothic building like this one?

And who wouldn't want to walk around a college campus that has a Neo-Gothic building right next to Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk? I think that's an awesome juxtaposition.

At the arboretum

There were tons of lily flowers and lily pads. J thought that the flowers looked like hard boiled eggs scattered across the water surface.

This is what Sam thought of our day trip to UW

And this is what Sam looks like when he anticipates the camera flash