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Location: Hotel Max If we wanted to buy this robe it would have only cost $150 XD It was very nice but obviously made for a 7ft tall man. Ahhhhh, Seattle. Felt good to be back. It was sunny but cool the whole time. Perfection
Heading down to Pike's Market This little guy wanted to help me eat my cinnamon roll but I had to disappoint him. He wanted to help too
In Seattle any surface is game for taking a nap. I gotta admit his choice of locations looks pretty comfy. I'm always blown away by the amount of fresh flowers for sale in Pike's Market. Buckets and buckets of flowers! So purty!
Want some crabs? >;-) We're not sure whether this guys was homeless or just a homeless looking balloon man.
Pike's Market Place That's a lot of fortunes! For 25 cents I'll tell you want your day will bring! :D A very fancy way to display olive oil. Apparently you're welcome to taste it, hence all the wine glasses full of it.
I don't know if you're supposed to eat the veggies they have strung up or if they're just for decoration. Either way I thought it was very colorful and of course, I wanted one. Hehe. Color coordinated peppers! :D
No, we didn't go in but the "have an erotic day" cracked me up. A nice little area across from the Seattle Art Museum. I agreed to a lunch of Asian food and actually found it rather tasty. The breaded meat is pork tenderloin. Pretty yummy.
The Seattle Art Museum was so extensive Keith and I had to come back two days in a row to finish looking at everything. We walked by a large pier where you could rent Segway's to do your exploring.
Again, napping happens anywhere on beautiful days like this. I may have chosen a grassy place but each to his own. :D
We walked down to the Olympic Sculpture Park which is a part of the Seattle Art Museum. It wasn't originally in our plans but I'm glad we got to it. It had beautiful walk ways. I was very surprised to see an Claes Oldenburg sculpture. I was looking his sculptures for inspiration during my of my printmaking projects. This particular piece is called Typewriter Easer, Scale X.
I was also surprised to see a sculpture by Alexander Calder here. I'm most familiar with the large mobiles he makes.
Another shot of the Oldenburg. Aquilegia formosa or Western Columbine. This is my favorite color scheme and the first time I've seen it naturally occur. Gorgeous!
This is Wake by Richard Serra. Huge steel pieces. They had a really nice little amphitheater and grassy areas to sit on.
This stainless steel tree is by Roxy Paine. I didn't realize it wasn't a real tree until I walked right up to it. A ladybug!
 
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Description: May 2009: Our Alaskan cruise left out of a pier at Seattle so we spent a couple days in the city before the ship left. It's the second time I've visited the city and I enjoyed even more the second go around. Of course Keith's presence makes anything all that much more fun but the city itself was great. We spent a whole day just exploring Seattle. We visited the Seattle Art Museum (actually went back on the second day to finish looking through all the art!), walked down the Olympic Sculpture Garden, and found lots of yummy food to chow down on! It was blast! On the last night we went to a dinner and show performance called Teatro ZinZanni. If you ever go to Seattle this is a must see. It was an excellent show...even if the food was a bit odd for my tastes, hehe. :D
Location: Seattle, WA