We visited the Seattle Children's Museum. Melissa's favorite parts were the stations they had set up in children's size. This is her in a cafe selling us foreign food...
In a mini kitchen making us soup...
And here she is in her favorite station, the grocery store. Don't know if I've mentioned it on here before, but Melissa has an obsession with being a cashier. Everywhere we go that has a self-checkout, she does it for me. Right down to swiping the card. Needless to say this was right up her alley, and we had to tear her away as other kids were interested in having a turn too!
And for us adults, we did the Seattle Underground Tour. It was very interesting to say the least. Educational and entertaining! (Very simply put, Seattle had a fire back in 1889, destroying the majority of the city, and they decided to build up). The tour took us into a number of the underground parts...
Here are a few interesting pics I took, a sign saying rooms 75¢, writing on an underground grocery store wall, an original "crapper", and an antique bathtub...
We rode this monorail often from the Space Needle to Downtown Seattle. (those were its only 2 stops!)
Our hotel had an indoor pool which we enjoyed in the evenings. Melissa made some great progress with her swimming confidence. She worked her way up to doggy paddling across the width of the pool. (she does have a slight floatation device built-in to her swimsuit)
Here she is leaping into the pool... countless times!
The night-time view of the Space Needle from our hotel window...
Our hotel room. We loved our hotel - Hyatt Place - it was only 2 months old and had great design/function. Would highly recommend it. It was in a perfect location for being a tourist, just 2 blocks from the Space Needle.
The most memorable happening of our trip was at a kitchen store we went to in Pike's Place -Sur La Table. We had a great time looking through all their ingenious gadgets.
I had been looking at this tool I had never seen before, it is designed to cut the kernels off of a corn cob, a "Corn Zipper"...
I moved along to some other gadget and was showing it to Ken, and right beside me Melissa suddenly starts wailing in panic. We noticed she was bleeding profusely from her finger tip. Ken immediately took to tending to her as I picked up the corn zipper on the floor, finding a decent sized slice of her fingertip in it. All she says she did was take the cap off of it, and as she did this it sliced her finger tip.
The staff immediately were abuzz around us, and pretty much right off the bat they were on me to fill out an accident report. We tried to get the bleeding to stop, but it just wasn't happening. After a lot of discussion on how to proceed, they decided to call an ambulance and see if they could tend to her on the spot.
So the ambulance came, sirens blazing! The medics were wonderful, and bandaged Melissa up and gave us a supply pack.
Then they gave Melissa a mini-tour of the ambulance...
Seeing we were there, and Melissa was taken care of, we walked around Pike's Market for awhile. There were lots of fresh fish stands, and when someone would purchase one, they would start throwing them around!
Later that afternoon, we met up with the McMillans, who were just starting their holidays in Seattle. We walked around the Olympic Sculpture Park and saw many different interpretations of "art"...
Melissa was very diligent in keeping her hand at her heart, she even slept this way (with her new "Hello Kitty" stuffy)...
Didn't go up it this visit, but took a pic of Melissa with the Space Needle...
2 comments:
We were down in Seattle for a weekend this summer, too. Loved the Underground tour. That was so fascinating to me.
Oh my goodness.... I can't believe what happened with Melissa - poor kid! I'm glad she's ok. What a freaky thing.
Next time we'll have to take the kids along and go to the Children's Museum you talked about. That looked like a lot of fun.
Aw, poor Melissa with the finger incident!
She's so cute, though. I had to giggle at the cashier video. She's like a mini adult!
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