Jason ~

Okay, I made it up to the top. It's awfully pretty up here, and less intimidating than the Sears Tower in Chicago. Too bad about all the dumb tourists around. I mean, I'm one too, but at least I don't have a screaming baby hanging off me. Actually, come to think of it, I'm NOT a stupid tourist. I came here armed with a great deal of information. I can stand here and point to the Puget Sound, and to Lake Washington, and to Mount Baker (a cruddy little thing in the distance, although in the right weather, it's probably beautiful), and Mount Rainier. I know that the Columbia Tower is the tallest building in the city, and that Mount Rainier is 14,000 feet high, give or take a few hundred... Amazing, some of the dumb questions the tourists come up with. Is that a lake? Is it going to rain here, because I heard it rains a lot here? Where's downtown? As of right now, I no longer consider myself a tourist. Okay, as of twenty minutes from now, after I've purchased my obligatory Space Needle keychain in the gift shop, I no longer consider myself a tourist.