I had to take a guess on the Irish vs English since I hadn't been there in a while and there's that new Paddy Coynes Irish Pub chain around now too, starting to get easily confused.
$28 bucks for just riding the elevator to the top of the Space Needle is retarded, I had no idea it was that expensive now.
A cheap way into downtown is to park your car around the Seattle Center and take the monorail into downtown, yeah the monorail is kind of crappy but parking downtown is either expensive or not that great.
T-town (Tacoma) smells a little funny imo, and I'm always stretching when I think of something to do there, the downtown area is ok but the city in general is not as cool as Seattle. The glass museum is nice but it's only worth the price of admission if they are doing some actual firing that day and you can watch.