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| This is the street I'm staying on |
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My building is the one in the middle of the photo
on the left |
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| Freeway park |
Another week has passed in the blink of a
coffee fuelled eye – I am going to miss the coffee machine at work. This week I
also found ‘Tetley British Blend’ in the store ($3 for 80 tea bags) the USA
isn’t quite a tea desert after all. This week at work I have been continuing to
learn cell staining and flow cytometry. It seemed to be going ok to start with
but every day I seem to kill more cells. The death of my experimental cells has
been reflected in the number of brain cells I have lost to a fruitless struggle
against the Mac computer I have been using for analysis. It has however been a
lovely sunny week and I have the photos of Mt. Rainier to prove it! The
fountains have also started flowing in Freeway park, I now understand the
purpose of all the concrete, which I presume is a mark of Summer.
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| Mt. Rainier from the bus. It's quite hard to get a photo where you can see it! |
On Saturday I had the day to myself and
headed into Seattle centre for the afternoon. I decided to go over to the space
needle for the first time. This gave me a good excuse to try the monorail.
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| Monorail (Downtown end) |
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| Monorail (Space needle end) |
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| Room 1 - experimenting with glass and fluorescence |
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| Space needle! |
I am
waiting for visitors to venture up the space needle but. I had a good time in
the gift shop! I couldn’t however resist the lure of the glass sculptures
peaking up above the fence around the Chihuly Garden and Glass exhibition. I
dutifully paid my $20 (yes it was a lot) and spent two hours staring so hard I
made my eyes sore. Chihuly is from this region and produces beautiful glass
installations.
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| Room two - inspired by native baskets |
For more information go to chihulygardenandglass.com and/or enjoy the pictures... a picture speaks a thousand words so 30 pictures is getting on for a thesis!
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| Room 3 - inspired by the sea |
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| Room 4 - Persian Carpet |
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| Room 5 - inspired by nature |
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| Room 6 |
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| Drafting out ideas |
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| Room 7 - glass chandeliers |
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| Room 8 |
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| Greenhouse |
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| Greenhouse and space needle |
After my eye achingly good start to the afternoon I decided to ditch cultural experiences and souvenir shop! This brought me back to Pike’s Place Market which I actually have some photos of now...
That's all for this time folks!
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