Sunday, 7 September 2008
We had gone to the Olympic Sculpture Park before, but this time we got photos with these giant steel sheets that remind us of giant cargo ships.
Wednesday, 10 September 2008
We took a Harbor Tour, which is a tour of the harbor here in Seattle. We basically went around and saw everything that we had already seen before, but this time it was from the water side instead of the land side. We tried and tried to get a photo of us with the city, but the sun was in our eyes. This is the best we could get.
Thursday, 11 September 2008
This was the view from my office while here in Seattle. Well, it really wasn't from my office. I was in a small closet with a couple of desks, and this was the view through the door, across the walkway, past some cubicals, through another doorway and into the small conference room. But I looked at this every day.
We went to the Seattle Art Museum, or SAM if you really know what you are talking about, and went to the Impressionism Exhibit. We discovered that I really like all those old old paintings with crisp lines and lots of detail. Kim likes the impresionism with lots of color a bunch of feeling, and little detail. We could pick each other's out easily since oftentimes there would be both types of painting displayed to compare the two styles. Afterwards there was another art piece that was just too much fun: a table with hundreds of blocks with different designs on each side so that the blocks could be turned to create unlimited designs. Wouldn't this just be the best coffeetable in the world?
Friday, 12 September 2008
The Underground Tour. Seattle has lots of tunnels underground. There is a tunnel for the Alaskan Way Viaduct. There is a tunnel on I-90 between Seattle and Bellevue. There is a tunnel for buses and light rail underground the downtown area. And there are sidewalks that are tunnels. But these are no longer used. The quick story is that when Seattle burned down, they rebuilt it, but needed taxes from businesses to pay for filling in the entire city with dirt so that their sewer system would work correctly. Yes, none of this really makes sense. So they built the businesses first to collect taxes, then years later filled in the entire area with soil to cover the first stories and perhaps second stories, but did not do that with the sidewalks. So some years later they finally covered over the sidewalk areas which means that the existing sidewalks are basically bridges with tunnels underneath them. At least a few of them.
The Underground Tour. Seattle has lots of tunnels underground. There is a tunnel for the Alaskan Way Viaduct. There is a tunnel on I-90 between Seattle and Bellevue. There is a tunnel for buses and light rail underground the downtown area. And there are sidewalks that are tunnels. But these are no longer used. The quick story is that when Seattle burned down, they rebuilt it, but needed taxes from businesses to pay for filling in the entire city with dirt so that their sewer system would work correctly. Yes, none of this really makes sense. So they built the businesses first to collect taxes, then years later filled in the entire area with soil to cover the first stories and perhaps second stories, but did not do that with the sidewalks. So some years later they finally covered over the sidewalk areas which means that the existing sidewalks are basically bridges with tunnels underneath them. At least a few of them.
1 comment:
I love it that you guys are making the most of your brief time there. How fun!
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