Washington

Yesterday, we left Portland and headed north. On the way, we stopped in Tacoma at the Museum of Glass. A very cool museum where you can watch people blow glass while someone explains everything you are seeing. Dale Chihuly is from here and there is a bridge of glass that he created attached to the museum.




From there, we drove on to Seattle. Our hotel was not the nicest, especially after the last two. It had the longest hallway I have ever seen and we had to walk through the parking lot to get to breakfast. However, it was just three blocks from the Space Needle, so we walked over there and headed up for the 500' view.

After that, we went to the Experience Music Project. This is a very cool place. The building was designed by Frank Gehry (he also designed the Weisman museum on U of M campus). This is even more curvy and it's colorful! The inside was fun too. You could play instruments as though you were playing along with a great band. We rock! There is also a science fiction museum, so we got to see ET, R2D2, Spock and a whole wall of Star Wars action figures. There was an exhibit of Hatch show prints and even a Jim Henson and the Muppets exhibit. Mara got to be a puppeteer! Whew.

The next morning, we walked to the waterfront and wandered through the market area. I saw someone catch a thrown fish, but I don't think Mara was able to see over the crowd of tourists with video cameras. Now we are in Wenatchee and tomorrow morning we catch a boat on Lake Chelan and head up to Holden Village for our week without electronics and phones. We will check in again on the 25th. Have a nice week!

Sara and Mara