we're still alive!

So . . .it's been awhile since I've posted. It's almost like I'm on vacation or something :) We done a ton of stuff in the past few days [and I've taken several hundred photos] so let's get to it!
Tuesday we took the ferry from Seattle to Bremerton to see Brandon's Grandma Virginia.

here we are on the ferry, heading to Bremerton. It was windy and about 65˙ - a far cry from Missouri weather :)

we met up with Brandon's cousin and uncle, and we all had a good meal at Tony's Pizza, where Brandon's Mom and Dad frequently visited when they lived there.

We went down to the waterfront to enjoy the sunny day; that's Grandma [on the left :) ]

we drove around for a while, and she drove us by Brandon's Mom's high school

after we visited with her, we crossed the Tacoma Narrows bridge to see Brandon's childhood home

you couldn't really see it for the 8' tall hedge, but the dog seemed friendly :)

Wednesday we got up and spent the day in Seattle. We started with the Olympia Sculpture Park, and we had fun with the Serra installation there.

neat-o.

one of my favorites - Eagle by Alexander Calder

fun and random type - I like this one a lot, too :)

then we headed up to the Seattle Center, and we visited the Experience Music Project - a very fun 'experience' [ha ha *sigh*]

pretty color shifts

um. . . .no caption needed.

that afternoon we went with my aunt & uncle to my cousin Joe's house, to celebrate his son Spencer's birthday. Great fun! He chose Arby's for dinner, and we had chocolate cake and ice cream.

the we drove by the Boeing buildings, which had doors open!
Then we went to bed as soon as we got back.

It was announced Wednesday night that the Supersonics were leaving Seattle, so here are the headlines from Thursday morning. Brandon was kind of bummed.

then we went to the art museum! It was great! They had a fantastic exhibition on Impressionism and their influences [but no photography allowed]

after that we visited Pike's Place Market [sorry for the gray pic - it was overcast and drizzly. imagine that.]

those vegetable peddlers had great sense of humor!

[if you look closely, he's catching a fish. I got really claustrophobic waiting for that pic, so there's only one]

. . . sucks to be a crab at the fish market.

we had tickets for the Mariners game that night, so we walked to Safeco.


this is a nifty baseball bat sculpture at the main entrace

this was taken in the middle of the game. there were lots of empty seats.

it was easy to get decent seats, though - and we did!
but we left in the 8th, when the score was 6-2, Tigers. Then we walked back to the hotel.

and I took this! I'm much happier with this one - what to you think?

So - I still have the 4th to blog about, but I may not. We've already started the trek back to Missouri, and we were on the road for 16 hours today. The 4th was nice and relaxing - sleeping in a little, the Seattle Underground tour, a nice meal and a nap. Then disappointing fireworks [I thought I heard people say you could see them at the Space Needle, but we couldn't. They were on the waterfront, so we walked a few blocks that way after they had started, so I have a few lame pics of the top halfs of the bursts]
So. . . .I think I'm done! Everything will be back to normal on Tuesday.

Good night!