The Reel Inn Fish Market and Restaurant.
MMMM. Fresh fish and a beer outside on the patio.
I had the fish tacos and John had the sea bass. So delicious.......My last week of lay-off from FIDDLER is right now. I only have 3 more weeks after this until the tour is over: Toronto for a week and then 2 weeks in the land of Cleves. So I went to visit John in Los Angeles where his tour is sitting for 2 months.
John picked me up from the airport and after a brief stop at Target and then the apartment to drop my suitcase and change into gym clothes (John said he required it for the day) we were off to Santa Monica. We headed straight for the beach and strolled around on the cliff top.
The pier had it's permanent carnival going on and we headed that way.
While walking along the pier we passed the New York Trapeze School.
As we passed, I mentioned that it looked like fun. John told me that he had made us an appointment to try it as a Monday Adventure. After socking him in the arm and saying "no way" I realized that it had to be true and that was the reason I had to be in gym clothes.
An instructor named Morningstar, yep, it is California, hooked me up for the first attempt.
Clearly, this is my best angle. I could have killed John for this shot.
And into the net which was the best part of it, I thought. So I wasn't so good, but John was a natural. 
UP.
UP.
And away! John was so good at it that he got to be caught by one of the professionals.
When I figure out how to get the video off my blackberry, you'll be able to see the dare devil in action. And here it is!!!
Pike's has fresh flowers, fresh fish, fresh vegetables, fresh, fresh, fresh...you get the idea. One day I got some smoked salmon and a rosemary olive oil boule. Another day I got a whole dungeness crab that they'll crack for you so you can take it back to your hotel and have a feast. Delicious! If I had been in the mood for BBQ I could have found it at this rolling vendor.
I had an adventure on the city bus one day. Never in all my times in Seattle had I gone to see the Fremont Troll and I needed to rectify that situation. As it was a rainy day, it wasn't worth renting a bicycle, so the bus it was. The Freemont Troll lives under a bridge in the Freemont section of town.
He was designed and built in the early 90 by 4 artists. It is approximately 18 feet tall and is holding an actual VW bug in his left hand.
Unfortunately it was all too soon before I had to head back to downtown to go to work.
He's nearly 3 stories tall and looks into the side of the building.
Denver also has piles of interesting buildings. One of my favorites is visible from the Denver Performing Arts Center stage door. 
The shimmery strip in the middle is actually hundreds of small pieces of metal attached at their tops to the building. They move in the breeze creating an alive facade on the otherwise boring building. They remind me of paillettes or fish scales.
One of the girls on the show worked in DC for almost 10 years and knew people from all the museums. The newly opened museum in Ford's Theatre offered a free tour to our FIDDLER group and I was very pleased to take them up on that. I would recommend it if you get a chance. 
This is a playbill from the night Lincoln was shot. I never realized that John Wilkes Booth was such a famous actor. He was basically the Brad Pitt of his day. Lincoln was a fan and wanted to meet him (months prior to the shooting) and Booth turned him down!
This is the one shot gun that Booth used. He went up to the Presidential Box and the guard let him in because he was a famous actor and of course he would have an audience with the president. He then jammed the door with a piece of broken music stand that he had stashed there. He knew the play very well (obviously, because he was in it) and waited until there was a laugh line and shot Lincoln then so the noise would be hidden.
This is the Presidential Box. Didn't get a chance to go in, because I had to go to work before the tour was over. 
This is the fountain in Dupont Circle. As I was strolling through the circle I saw a bum playing the melodica. All you nun-instructed folks out there know what I mean. But for those who don't, a melodica is played like a recorder horn but has a mini piano-like keyboard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melodica
And now some random shots....this is in front of the Canadian Embassy. I don't know what it is, but I see it regularly because a good friend works there. Maybe I should ask sometime...
Snapped this one on my way out of town. The rest of my photos are from the Bachelorette Weekend, but I left those on Facebook. 