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<\/a><\/p>\nWe took the light rail which was pretty reasonably priced at $2.50 per child. \u00a0I had my Orca card so it was free for me.\u00a0We travelled from Seatac Airport to downtown Westlake Mall. \u00a0The ride was pretty fun, something new for them. \u00a0We left Seatac at about 11:20 and arrived at Westlake almost exactly at 12.<\/p>\n
First thing we all kind of had to do was use the bathroom. \u00a0Westlake was being renovated and the only available bathrooms were on the 4th floor where the food court was.\u00a0My daughters each ordered a crepe and we all took bites as we walked to Seattle Center.<\/p>\n
When we arrived at Maker Faire there were some booths outside. \u00a0 We checked them out before heading, and that is where I saw my first 3D printer in person. \u00a0I was impressed, immediately I thought this is cool, I need to get one.<\/p>\n
There were other things like a pressure rocket launcher, computer controlled water fountain, and a marble paper artist.<\/p>\n We headed inside and I prepurchased tickets so it was no problem getting in. \u00a0We went to a smaller section first on immediately to the left of the entrance.<\/p>\n The thing that impressed me there was something called openbeam. \u00a0Normally it would not be something I would look into but this seems to be where people are headed when doing 3D printing.<\/p>\n Before leaving that side, I spoke to some book people, mentioned that I was interested in authoring a book.<\/p>\n We then left and headed to the right side and there were three times more stuff there. \u00a0 My kids did some sewn electronics, and artistic stuff. \u00a0Too much to post in this blog. \u00a0It was a busy day after all.<\/p>\n But the two things caught my attention on that side, a google team, and a sole Raspberry Pi team. \u00a0I told them of my plans to integrate the Pi and Arduino and they were for it.<\/p>\n We wrapped up and were hungry headed towards EMP where we had a year membership.<\/p>\n On the walk there we noticed more electronics (specifically engineering stuff) outside. \u00a0It was not really hackerspace makershed kind of stuff but more engineering and schools. \u00a0BUT there was a huge surprise on the way there… apparently there was a Filipino Festival going on, we had some Bar B Q steak, Lumpia, and Pancit. \u00a0We checked out the Filipino booths and it was pretty interesting. \u00a0Was proud to be Pinoy.<\/p>\n Also met some relatives while we were there, one of them mentioned we go check out the old home console museum. \u00a0I saw the venerable Atari 2600, Nintendo etc etc. \u00a0Just another cool stop in our awesome journey today.<\/p>\n Day was not over, by any stretch…<\/p>\n We continued on to EMP where we checked out the Fantasy gallery they had set up. \u00a0I was pretty surpised the kids took a liking to all that. \u00a0Then we checked out the bottom floor where we saw the the Sci portition and a Horror Movie section.<\/p>\n By now kids were beat, I wanted to walk on back from Seattle Center to Westlake (where we had to go back and catch the light rail). \u00a0So we took the monorail which I believe is another first for my daughters.<\/p>\n We got to Westlake and had another meal… we were still hungry. \u00a0After a bio break we jumped on the light rail and headed back to Seatac. \u00a0My wife who did not come with us had to stay at home to greet some relatives and take care of her mom called me and said she wanted some fried small fish called “dilis”<\/p>\n I quickly drove to the Asian store and just made it, they were closing up and I was the 2nd to last customer. \u00a0They also gave me some free palabok.<\/p>\n Took the I90 route home and saw the kids were beat. \u00a0My day was almost done too. \u00a0I still had to return some DVD’s to Redbox. \u00a0One of the things I wanted was a bent needle nose pliers, \u00a0they for some reason seem rare, but I found out they are also used for crafting, so tomorrow, its on to Michael’s or some other art store to see if they have this kind of pliers.<\/p>\n So I am here, day almost done, just need to get my pushups and situps in, the walking was certainly a workout though.<\/p>\n Overall it was a GREAT day A++.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today I got the kids out of the house to join me for Maker Faire in Seattle. We took the light rail which was pretty reasonably priced at $2.50 per child. \u00a0I had my Orca card so it was free … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n