Seattle in a Day

Lately I've been in the mood to "go somewhere different and see something new". Paul had the wonderful idea to make a quick trip up to Seattle. There is so much to see in do in Seattle. We barely scratched the surface with our day trip.
Our day got off to a cold and foggy start. We could barely see the top of the Space Needle. We walked around the Seattle Center grounds for a bit, but the boys had donuts on the brain so we headed for Pike Place Market.


We decided to take the monorail, which got us within a few blocks of the market. During the ride Fuller entertained me by pretending to be afraid of the monorail


We stopped for a family pic on way to Pike Place Market.


-PIKE PLACE MARKET

We saw the most amazing flowers, for unbelievable low prices.


And beautiful veggies!


But the boys were most interested in the donuts. There is a little stand there that makes mouthwatering little fresh donuts. Here they are ordering their first dozen donuts. By the end of the day they ate almost 4 dozen (they are small after all).


MMmmmm....hot, fresh donuts!


While we were there Grayson and Rowan both got their fortunes from this machine. They had recently watched "BIG", so I think they were expecting something a little more exciting.


- Original STARBUCKS
We're not coffee drinkers, but couldn't resist stopping to see the FIRST Starbucks.


- SEATTLE'S GUM WALL

Pretty much the boys' favorite sight, and my worst nightmare.

While at Pike Place I asked the information guy for directions to the waterfront. He sent us past Seattle's grossest attraction, and told us to be sure to stop and see it.

It was amazing, and gross.



-OLYMPIC SCULPTURE PARK

After a lovely and quite long walk down the waterfront we made it to the Olympic Sculpture Park.
Where we posed with giant eyeballs,


enjoyed the beautiful sunshine that had come out,


and got a good workout on our way up.


The "Giant type writer eraser" was one of the items to help start our conversation of "what IS art?"


Then these three made their own lovely sculpture.





Then there was this bit of art- basically large hunks of rusty metal that Paul got scolded for touching. Not sure what damage Paul's fingers could do that years of rain, sun, snow and pooping birds hasn't, but they seemed very strict about the no touching rule.


- LUNCH AT DICK'S
Yum, yum, yum! (Thanks for the recommendation Washington friends!)

-Our last stop in Seattle was Archie McPhee, which sells a truly amazing selection of weird things. Rowan was most impressed by the odd variety of mints you can buy. They have flavors like garlic, bacon, nacho cheese, onion ring and ranch flavored mints. But in the end he decided he didn't want to waste his money on something that might be gross. He opted for coconut mints and a 75 cent monkey finger puppet. Paul bought all of the boys (himself included) potato guns. We'll see how long those last before I have to confiscate them.


Fuller spent most of his time at the store tormenting me with this demonic doll. The stuff of nightmares for sure!


It was a fantastic day all around! We forgot to visit Bruce Lee's grave, and didn't see any of the museums, zoo or aquarium. I guess we'll have to take another trip there soon!