News From Fern Street

So our final day lead us to the Science Museum. It was pretty cool, really geared towards kids, but it was still really fun.

Turtle Statues with a sea-gull in the background.

Pretty cool Dinosaur exhibit.

Honestly, the butterfly house was the best part of the science museum. I really enjoyed them flying around us.

View of the Space Needle is looming closer and closer.

Yikes, here we go!

The trip up, only took a few seconds. . . crazy!

Made it! It was such a great view!

The whole city from this vantage point!

Another kind person willing to take our photo.

The look out point inside.

Heading towards the Experience Music Project Museum. Really interesting building design outside.

Insane inside!

This mosaic was really cool. All different kinds of instruments circled around this. mostly guitars, but it was pretty sweet!

This was in the Avatar room. Tom was getting into a simulation to become a character and act out a scene in Avatar. He had fun!

More of the Avatar room.

The top of the instrument tornado.

Outside the EMP, pretty cool!

Red Mill Burgers was just soo good!!!

The burgers in this place were amazing! The onion rings were hand made!

After our meal we headed to The Triple Door which was a night club downtown Seattle. It was pretty cool! Good jazz!

Day Five found us in our first full day in Seattle. Of course we made the trip to Pike's Place Market!

This place was amazing! Wish we had something like this at home.

Famous fish throwing vendor!

Getting ready to throw a fish. They only throw fishes when an order is placed. Lucky we came when we did.

Got the blurry fish toss!!

Really cool sign!

Made it to the first Starbucks Store!!!

This places was really cool! Probably the best Starbucks Latte I have ever had. Now, sorry to those loyal Starbucks fans out there. I have never been a HUGE fan or their coffee, but this place was different. . . maybe it was my cold, or the fact it was my first pumpkin spice latte of the season, but it was much better.

No glitz, no glam!

It was WARM!!! and Sunny!! So had to take a pic next to the giant piggy bank :)

Tom and I headed over to the Seattle Aquarium. This places was really cool. I've never been to one, and it was nice to check this place out. Diver feeding salmon.

Wall of jelly fish, the light would change color which would change the color of the jellies.

One of Tom's favorites, Seahorse.

The Crab Pot! We shall visit this place later, snapped a pic earlier though.

We took a harbor tour, so glad we did because it was such a great day to do it.

Space Needle!

Gotta snap a pic of us :)

WOW!! wait! is that Mt. Rainer! YES! We were super lucky, only 50 days out of the year is Mt. Rainer visible.

The breeze picked up, but a fellow tour mate took out pic for us.

City view

Closer view of Mt. Rainer.

This is a statue of a fisherman feeding pelican's. Tom had to take part.

The start of our Underground City Tour.

Check out these on the ground. Pretty cool.

Heading down. Okay, so the deal was Seattle was originally built at sea-level. Not the brightest idea. So in 1880's Seattle had a fire that burnt down most of the main part of the city. Everyone agreed that the city level should be raised. Well, the people who were going to build this wouldn't start for 8-9 months. Well the business's didn't like that because they weren't going to make any money. So they rebuilt, and then the city caught up to rebuilding the street. Only problem, the streets were 10 feet above the shops. Kid you not. Eventually, things were sorted out. But this tour was really cool.

Remember those tiles on the sidewalk, yeah their actually sky-lights for underground. Worked pretty well.

Good place for a haunted house! haha, pretty creepy.

We came up from the underground and saw this really cool building.

Back down below.

Our tour guide explaining to us.

Now, One-Step Program is thus: Since the business's were below the street level, one would get drunk, and to get back to street to get home, you would have to climb a ladder and well, a lot of people would get up to the street level and stumble. . . and yeah. . . get the One-Step idea? Apparently, they called the 17 deaths, invulentary suicides.

Yes, my best Price is Right Girl show. This is an original "Crapper" haha, Story of that. When they brought the crapper to Seattle, before the rebuild, plumbing should always be at the highest point, otherwise, you get water shooting back up at you. At high-tide ones toilet would spew out water. . . ewww

Outside the Art Museum. Didn't go, but I still thought this was cool.

We are now at the Crab Pot. YUMMY!! We got the boil, which came with dungeness crab and snow crab. It was soo wonderful!

My second cousin Kim and her fiance Curt. They live just outside of Seattle, so it was great to get together with them. Pretty cool, they both work at Boeing!