EMP Anniversary

Jeff and I have officially been married for two years (I know, such a big milestone) and we still love each other and haven't wanted to kill one another at least at the same time yet, so I would say we're doing pretty good. We went to the EMP and then to fancy sushi. The EMP has some serious nerd exhibits happening right now. The ones we saw:

• touring Star Wars costumes - super cool. Because I'm a huge nerd, I'd already seen about half the stuff they had but it was still cool. The fabrics and beadwork on all of Padme's outfits are amazing. My favorite was her wedding dress. The beadwork was crazy and the lace was super intricate. The other crazy thing was the amount of people who worked on just her costumes alone was insane - something like 80 people. The other thing that the quotes on the walls and videos kept talking about was how bc of all the green screen that was used in Episode 1,2,3 (which is basically the entire movies) the costumes were really the only thing the actors had to connect with the story so they became really important for them.
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• Infinite Worlds of Sci-Fi - so Paul Allen clearly has way too much money, even after helping Bill Gates save the world. This entire exhibit is literally sci-fi show memorabilia that he has collected over the years. An entire exhibit! But Jeff and I decided that if we had that much money that's probably what we would do with it too.
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• Indie Games - so this was a whole exhibit about Indie video games and how the process of building an indie game rather than big money game is completely different. But the cool thing was there was 20 stations throughout the exhibit where you could play a game. Jeff and I found a few that we like: The Floor is Jelly (this one Jeff really liked and I wanted to throw it), Lumino City (I really liked this one), and Quadrilateral Cowboy (which according to the site is still in production yet we were playing it...)

Then we killed 40 minutes waiting for our reservation by going ot the same bar we went to last year when we went to Shiro's for anniversary sushi (last year was when we came to Seattle for Nickel Creek and stayed in the really nice hotel) - except it wasn't the same bar. It has a new name but other than that we couldn't tell any difference. But anyway, I ordered a "Green Tea Fizz" which is basically this. It was amazing and Jeff was appalled that I would drink a cocktail with a raw egg white in it, but it didnt taste weird - just added a nice creamy-ness to it.

And then we topped it off by stuffing our faces with Shiro's sushi. Always delicious. While we were talking we discussed all the things owning a house would let us do (more on that in the next post) like painting and running wires through walls rather than around them (although we decided that might be a project we tackle later). 

A great low key anniversary.