A trip to the Space Needle was always part of the plan for our Seattle visit, but I must admit that I didn't expect to be impressed. After all, I'm a New Yorker, raised with trips to the Empire State Building and the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. So how big a deal is the Space Needle? Yes, it looks neat, a relic of the era when space flight was something new and amazing (okay, it's still pretty amazing), but I didn't expect to be too impressed by it.
Well, I was wrong. It's just neat! Marc and I went there for dinner tonight. We'd read varying reviews of it--some just bad and others good (like AAA's three diamonds). On the way there, the driver (we used the hotel's car service) told us it has gotten much better recently. Of course, we would pay for the view, as it's a revolving restaurant at the top of the needle, but the driver assured us that the food was quite good as well.
Fortunately, he was right. The food was fine, and the view was exquisite. The final touch was an ice cream sundae we split that they serve "space age" style. It shows up in a sort of double-boiler dish, used so they can put water and dry ice in the bottom. Your sundae is placed on the table, and it quickly covers the table with a dry ice-fueled carbon dioxide fog. It's really a cute trick. The bill was rather high, but I don't regret the visit--it was fun!
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