Seattle trip

* Vising Space Needle: Parked @ 1st av N & Harrison. Had to pay $3 for 4 hour parking. Then I found "free" parking for 2 hours on harrison. That is $3 for 6 hour parking. After 6 0'clk road parking becomes free. So I parked on Republican street, which was all empty at 6pm. But when we came back from attending a concert in Seattle Center ~8PM, all parkings were full.

* its worth visiting Pioneer square (space needle), Pacific Museum, And waterfront/ Pike place, Seattle Library, etc all in same trip. These are within 1 mile of each other. Best is to come before 9am, find ~$8 full day parking. Then take bus. Bus is free in downtown area. find free bus route on city xport website & plan accordingly.

Places we visited in 2 days:
Pacific Museum
Amusement park
Space Needle
Seattle Center/ Attended concert of "Awesome"
International Fountains
Pike Place
Starbucks Center
Medina/ Bill gates house
Sleepless in Seattle House
DesMoinse Marina/ farmer market
Ferry terminals
Seattle Port Ship Yard

Houston Rockets vs. Trail Blazers

Yao Ming - earns ~$16M salary. 7 foot 6". Yao is married to Ye Li who is also 6'8". Yao was born in Shanghai but Both are believed to belong to a tribe in china which is believed to have decended from Chingez khan & every body in this tribe is extremely tall.

Yao is currently the tallest player in NBA. Tallest players ever were 7'7" (Manute Bol retired 95, Gheorghe Muresan, retired 00) but both were not really players. They were put in games as show pieces. Yao is best tallest highest scoring real player ever.

I went to watch Trailblazers vs. Rockets in Rose stadium portland. We set right behind Paul Allen owns Portland Trailblazers.

2009 game. Very intense game, trail blazers lost to rockets (score ....)

The funniest moment was to see Yao Ming playing against Joel Przybilla 7'1" who is giant of tail blazers. Even funnier was to steve blake (point guard) not even trying against Yao. He looked 1.5" shorter, only reaching his shoulers standing like a boy next to a man