Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

The Devil being my brother, Joey. I took him to the Seattle Science Center to see Deep Sea 3-D at the Imax theater. We had quite an adventure....

I THOUGHT that I remembered being able to walk to the Science Center from the ferry- knowing that it would be a long walk. I figured: its under the Space Needle so just follow the Space Needle and you would eventually get there. Needless to say, there are a couple factors I did not take into consideration:

1) The space needle is short in comparison to ginormous sky scrapers that crowd out the rest of the sky
2) 7-year old boys have to eat and poop- alot and quite often
3) 7- year old boys want to stop at every store along the way

After a couple minutes of feeding, buying trinkets, and getting lost, a cab ride sounded tempting.

Above: Joey mimicking a mummy at Ye Ol' Curiosity Shop

We finally got to our target destination in time to get drenched in line, find a vendor that sells soft pretzels (because, ugh, Joey wasn't hungry for anything else....) and eat in front of the water display (water makes such a great display, since we never get to see rain in Seattle).



The show was amazing. The cinematography= beautiful, the film shots = incredible, the subject mattter = other-worldly. We had to wear special glasses to see the six story (!!) screen in 3-D. Its amazing how creatures and the environment are so symbiotic. The film really drove home that we are all co-dependent on each other. This I have known for years. In college my roomate and I would regularly co-eat Snickers bars. My special talent was being able to eat the entire chocolate coating and leave the nougat and caramel intact for my roomate to finish. See....symbiosis.....

My favorite part of the film was watching the sea-turtles- you really feel like you are right there. In general, sea creatures are very violent. Its different watching them fight and eat each other in a real video as opposed to in Little Nemo!