Things to do: The Seattle Center is the grounds of the 1962 World's Fair. Today it houses the Monorail, Space Needle, Kraken, MoPop, Chihuly Garden of Glass, Climate Pledge
Arena, the Ballet, Opera, Seattle Children's Theater, Seattle Repertory Theater, Seattle Shakespeare, and more!
https://www.seattlecenter.com/
Get there on the Monorail.
https://www.seattlemonorail.com You too can ride this 1960's
vision of future transportation. (I want my flying car!) The monorail goes from Westlake Center (4 blocks from the convention center at the heart of downtown) to the Seattle Center. The monorail runs until 9pm most weeknights and 11pm on Friday and Saturday. It stays open later when there is a major event at the Seattle Center. Check the website for the daily schedule. It's $3.50 one way. This would be a great way for you to get to the MoPop for the Friday Night
USITT Party.
MoPop: Home of The Friday night
USITT Party I already talked about MoPop above. If you are a music nerd, grunge fan, scifi nerd, horror nerd, fantasy nerd, video game nerd, this it the place for you.
https://www.mopop.org/
The
Pacific Science Center: A pretty nice family friendly science museum. They have two
Imax theaters. The Boeing
Imax theater is 60' high by 80'
laser Imax screen with an HUGE sound
system. During the day they have nature films but at night they run major motion pictures. Looks like they will probably be showing Dune 2 when you get here. I generally avoid the
Imax shows in the Paccar Theater, it's a lot smaller
screen and more like going to the
Imax at your local theater. They also have a
laser dome that still does evening rock shows like many of my fellow GenX will remember.
Laser Pink Floyd: The Wall anyone?
https://pacificsciencecenter.org/
Our NHL team The Kraken
play on Monday March 18th and
Sunday March 24th in Climate Pledge
Arena. If you want to catch some Hockey you'll have to come a little early or stay a little late.
https://www.nhl.com/kraken/schedule No games means that the
arena is available for tours on both the 21st and 22nd
https://climatepledgearena.com/tours/
The Chihuly Garden of Glass is a beautiful museum. It's
https://www.chihulygardenandglass.com/ It costs $35
The Space Needle. Probably the thing you know the most about Seattle is this crazy building. On a
clear day it's an amazing view and I highly recommend it. The view of downtown, the mountains, the water. I think it's actually worth the $35-$39 they charge. On a cloudy rainy day, it's not worth $5. So DON'T buy tickets in
advance. Keep an eye on the weather and if we get a beautiful
clear day then go for it. Note there is a combo ticket for $59.50 that gets you into both the Space Needle and the museum of glass.
https://www.spaceneedle.com/
Looks like the Seattle Rep will be putting on a show called "Sanctuary City" in their smaller Leo K Theater.
https://www.seattlerep.org/plays/202324-season/sanctuary-city/
The Seattle Shakespeare company will be opening a show called "The Bed Trick"
https://www.seattleshakespeare.org/ssc-production/the-bed-trick-2024/
The Armory is a food
hall in the middle of the Seattle Center with lots of food options and they are generally pretty good. You can't go wrong at Wingdom, Skillet, or Mod.
https://seattlecenter.com/explore/attractions/armory
And be sure to stop by the giant fountain and tempt your fate getting wet... or be smart and sit back watching the fools.