After visiting Seattle twice and living here more than 3 months, we finally went up in the Space Needle for the first time last night. My parents gave us a gift card for Sky City, the restaurant that slowly revolves around the top (it takes 47 minutes for one complete rotation). On Sunday we looked at the forecast and saw that it was supposed to be sunny with a high of close to 70 on Monday, so we decided to try and make a reservation. The only opening they had was at 8:45, so we decided to take it. The sun doesn't set until 9:15, so we thought that we'd have plenty of time before dinner to see the view during the day and then be able to see the sunset and the view at night. Unfortunately they don't allow you to go up to the observation deck until 15 minutes before your scheduled reservation, so we didn't have as much time to take pictures and video with daylight as we would have liked. Also, a lot of the mountain ranges were already hidden by light cloud cover, so we couldn't see them that well by the time we got up there. But the view was still very beautiful and we got some good pictures before we were called to go eat.

We sat at a table right by the window and started out with a view of Lake Union and then the restaurant continued to slowly rotate clockwise. Our waiter was rather slow and forgot our bread, so we had to ask him for it. We waited almost 15 minutes for our bread from the time we sat down to the time he brought it. Anyway, I ordered the honey and peppercorn crusted smoked king salmon and Troy ordered the Jidori chicken. My salmon was cooked pretty well, it just had too much pepper on it. Troy's chicken was a little dry, but his asparagus was pretty good. Overall the food was okay, but the view made up for it. Most of it was free to us, so that was very nice of my parents.

After dinner we went back down to the observation level and took some pictures and video at night. Going to the Space Needle was cool and it was nice to finally do that since we hadn't done it before. The view was great and it was something we'll certainly remember for a while.