It cost seven or eight bucks to go up the Space Needle. I waited in a DisneyWorld-like line for a while, and there was a Space Needle employee who walked around asking people when their birthday was, and then they would look in this book and tell you some famous people who were born on your birthday. (On a side note, people born on my birthday:
Tom Hanks,
Courtney Love, Fred Savage,
Richard Roundtree,
O.J. Simpson,
John Tesh,
Jimmy Smits,
Kevin Nash (
Big Daddy Cool),
Kelly McGillis,
Anjelica Huston,
Dean Koontz,
Brian Dennehy, and about 10 or 11 million other people).
Anyway, there's not much to do inside the needle, except for the revolving restaurant, but there's an awesome view from the observation deck. I threw a yellow Sour Patch Kid off the observation deck and watched it accelerate towards Earth at almost 10 meters per second per second. It didn't hit anyone, though. It just landed harmlessly in the grass. Later on, after I went back down the ear-popping elevator and through the spacious gift center, I looked for my Sour Patch Kid in the general vicinity of where it landed. No luck. So I went past what looks like a giant steel elephant carcass to the Seattle Monorail... which incidentally, has only one stop.