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First stop in Tacoma was the Museum of Glass. It was sweet – the cone thing below was a huge hot shop. A hot shop is a place where artists work with glass while it is hot. This one was complete with stadium seating so you could just sit back and watch the artist at work.
Phil loves the Museum of Glass.
Lastly in Tacoma, we got to visit with Aunt Frances and cousin Dean. It is always a blessing to get to hang out with family!
And also hello to my parents and the Middletons!
We had a great time in Seattle. We arrived on Friday night and had dinner with Kim and Zak, some of my friends from freshman year at Stanford in Larkin. It was so great to see them and catch up. They live in a cool neighborhood called Greenlake and just bought a place. Congratulations!
The next day got to hang out with my parents. We went to the Olympic Sculpture Park, right on the sound. It was just delightful. Our favorite part was getting to see a piece by Mark Dion there called Neukom Vivarium. From there we went down to Pike’s Place and the first-ever Starbucks.
Next we had a great opportunity to go on the Underground Seattle Tour organized by our friend Janice. Janice has a travel agency and has organized a cruise to Alaska out of Seattle (that was the reason my parents were coincidentally in town too!). We learned a ton about the history of the Seattle as a gold rush boom town.
We will post some more photos when we get a copy of my parents’ photos.
Before heading out for Seattle a few exciting things happened.
1. We went out for tea. Instead of going to a place that was heavily decorated in doilies, we found a little modernist house on a hill over looking some beautiful gardens. The couple who built the house met in 1926 and hit it off. However, they were separated by World War II during which they were each separately prisoners of war. They met again in 1946, got married and built a house! It was cool. And see, real men drink tea.
2. Phil was solicited to purchase marijuana. I ducked into a coffee shop to use the little girls’ room. Phil dutifully waited outside when some dude in a red hat says in Phil’s direction, “Bud?” Phil looked around. The guys says again, “Bud?” Phil says, “What?” Red hat says, “Ma-ri-jua-na. Do you want to buy marijuana?” Phil said, “No, my wife is going to the bathroom.” Red hat slunk off to a new block. Wow. I guess what we heard about British Columbia (pot is the third highest grossing industry there) it true.
3. One last trip to Spinnaker’s Gastro Brew Pub.
