Wacky Wilkins': Seattle Day 3 and 4

The next day in Seattle was our museum day. In the morning we stopped at this bakery which according to Buzz Feed, is one of the top 25 in the world you need to see. It was nice and delicious but I don't know if I'd go that far. JK.

Then we headed to some museums by the space needle. Crazy structure we passed along the way.

The first museum we went to was the EMP Museum. I think it stand for experience music project or something. It was pretty crazy and probably one of the best museums we've ever been to. They had an exhibit on fear and horror movies which was kind of cool.

Me next to the manuscript of Dracula or Frankenstein. I can't remember.

The Jason mask.

Practicing our scariest screams.

Doug with a light saber.

There was also a Sci-Fi exhibit that had Neo's costume from the Matrix and a bunch of stuff from Star Trek and Dr. Who.

There was also a Fantasy section that had this

and this from Labyrinth

And Yoda's cane and amulet

As well as this...

And the wicked witch's hat.

There was also a huge music section in this museum. There was a big Nirvana exhibit (they're from the area along with a million other bands). I took this picture of one of their set lists because the third song cracked me up.

This structure was kind of cool. Some of the guitars were even playing. Nuts.

Me by a giant carton of milk in the music video exhibit. The music video section was really cool. There were monitors everywhere playing all sorts of music videos and talked about different methods and how a lot of them are made. It was pretty cool.

This one is for my sister Eliza. It's one of the puppets from the Dark Crystal.

Me by Kurt Cobain's caridgan and guitar.

And terrible picture of me by some Macklemore stuff. They're also from the area. There was also a huge Jimi Hendrix exhibit but apparently we didn't take any pictures...

It was seriously the coolest museum ever. This is what it looked like from the outside. The monorail went right through it.

Here it is from the other side. Pretty cool.

Then we walked a million miles to lunch at another restaurant we looked up before we left. It was called Lunchbox Laboratory. The food was pretty delicious but the service was horrible. We had Guachos Tachos (or something like that) with devil's tears ketchup. It was pretty good. This restaurant was kind of by Amazon.com headquarters so that was kind of fun to see too.

On the way back we saw this sign. Made me miss my baby even more!

After lunch we went to the Pacific Science center. It was pretty cool and had these fun interactive exhibits like this anti-gravity mirror.

There was also a really cool spy exhibit they had going on that was kind of about the history of espionage in the nation. It was neat to see. Here I am by a piece of the Berlin Wall.

And me in my awesome computer generated disguise.

The science part of the museum was awesome. Once again, our kids would have loved it. Here I am by a giant slice of a Douglas.

And us by a huge scorpion.

The butterfly pavilion.

And some cute graffiti we saw. How precious.

This was outside the science center. These things were crazy!! If you bumped them (which was encouraged) they made these crazy almost spooky howling noises. It was crazy.

I saw someone wearing this shirt one day and it totally cracked me up. Then we found it in the gift shop!

At the end of the day we went to the Chihuly Gardens and Glass. A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. That's all I can say about that!! This was when you first walked in.

Then there was this whole south-west room inspired by woven baskets and stuff. Incredible.

Doug by an octopus sculpture. I thought the octopus was bronze but the whole entire sculpture (including the bowl it's sitting on) was glass.

Part of a ceiling that was entirely made of glass.

An amazing glass wonderland.

I loved the reflection these made.

Two really cool boats full of glass figures.

I didn't know this but Chihuly doesn't actually make most of his work. He had an accident in the 70's and is blind in one eye. He designs it all and oversees the production but doesn't really make any of it. After his accident he started painting and doing other artwork. He would burn some of the paint with a torch to get a cool effect. This is some of it and obviously some inspiration for his glass.

An amazing white chandelier

More chandeliers outside.

This was all in the garden. Absolutely amazing.

This is actually a real flower with glass behind it. Gorgeous.

There was a huge arboretum with this giant structure running through it. Crazy.

These were cool too. We were very grateful we did not have our kids with us here. There were some very miniature versions of these for sale in the gift shop for about $7000 a piece. Yikes!

Another gorgeous structure

More of his artwork

Arboretum selfie!

His signature framed on the wall.

And more from outside.

The little purple structure in this one was amazing. I couldn't tell if they were solid pieces of glass stacked together or if he'd smashed the sides of circles to make cube like shapes. Either way it was amazing!!

We walked around the space needle a little and discovered that if you download the space needle app and take pictures by these circles they have spread around they look like this.

Pretty funny.

The last day we were there we were pretty worn out. We went back to the market for a little bit but it was so crowded that we didn't stay long. We did see this funny shirt though.

Before we had to catch our plane we quickly went into the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation visitor's center. It was pretty neat to see. They're doing some incredible stuff.

They're pretty focused on getting people to start their own projects and things that will make a difference that they can donate too. There was stuff everywhere saying that they don't want donations. They have plenty of money. They want you to start something that will make a difference. Kind of a cool concept.