On Saturday, This Boelter Family decided to do some real-live Seattle site seeing! We went to Seattle Center, which includes such notables as the Space Needle, The Experience Music Project, The Science Center, The Children's Museum, The Science Fiction Museum, and lots of other cool stuff!
That's the Space Needle, as seen from below (and behind one of the crazy sculptures on the grounds)—our number one destination on this trip.
Louis was excited about all the talk of elevators; it's a word he has recently enjoyed saying (although without most of the consonants, so it sounds sort of like "eh-yeh-yay-toe"). Here's Daddy and Louis in line for the ehyehyaytoe.
Once we got into the "moving room" (as defined in Louis's Sesame Street book The Furry Arms Hotel), however, he wasn't so sure he liked it. The elevator, which looks out over Queene Anne Hill, zooms up the 520 or so feet to the observation deck in a matter of seconds.
The city planners did a smart thing by not putting the Space Needle smack dab in the middle of downtown. Not only does it make for a really nice view of downtown's skyscrapers from the Needle, but it doesn't get lost in the jumble of buildings when you're admiring it from afar.
This is a patented Daddy-holding-the-camera-self-portrait shot, taken on the observation platform. The challenge level of this technique has increased with the addition of a certain camera-grabbing member of This Boelter Family.
Here's a corner of Puget Sound, and maybe the Magnolia neighborhood over there top right? I dunno, I can't keep all those non-North Seattle neighborhoods straight.
Mommy and Louis after we finished all the bunny crackers and apple snacks.
Louis points out the landmarks.
Mommy and Louis clownin' around.
Louis had the best view of all!
Back on terra firma, after walking around the park for a bit, Louis and Mommy wait for a fountain to start up.
Whoa! Did you see that!?
Some cool structures near the Science Center.
We stopped in at the food court for lunch, which, as you can see, was Louis's favorite part. There was some kind of Tibetan fair going on, and Daddy was impressed that Louis identified the Tibetan monks' chanting as "museekah!"
Here's just a chunk of the crazy architecture of the Experience Music Project (the Sci-Fi Museum may be in there, too), and the monorail leading up to (into? through?) it. We didn't check out these other attractions or any of the indoor stuff, really, on this trip; we'll save those for a rainy day.
We don't expect any shortage of those...
you guys are so gorgeous!
Posted by: didi | October 08, 2010 at 03:51 PM