Our final morning in Seattle is spent at the Pacific Science Center, which is again in the complex around the Space Needle! The building is vast and houses a rambling collection of exhibits covering many aspects of science including dinosaurs, a tropical butterfly house and insect village, a model of Puget Sound, animal exhibits, an area showing you how 3D movies and images are made and several technology exhibits. As with most good science museums nowadays the exhibits are largely interactive. Unfortunately our visit coincided with the school vacations so there were hundreds of children on summer camp visits to the museum all dressed in their often brightly coloured camp t-shirts, resulting is some long waits to get on to some of the more interesting exhibits. As well as the inside exhibits, when the weather is fine (as it was on this day), there were some fun things to do in the court yard outside the main buildings. The one that caught Jack and Emily’s eyes was the High Rail Bicycle ride, where you get to ride upon a counter weighted bicycle around a circular track 15ft in the air. Once they were on it we struggled to get them off. Even Karen was tempted into taking a ride on it. After spending the morning at the Pacific Science Center it is time to start our long journey back across the country to New York. Rather than just hacking across we have some fun stops planned. Our first night out of Seattle was spent at Moses Lake. From here we slogged our way to tonight’s stop over in Missoula, Montana … 500 miles done only another 2500 to go!!
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