July 13, 2016, Wednesday — Falicovs

Breakfast at Betty and Alexis’ house on Mercer Island
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view from the living room

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Tasha the cat

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Anika holds Tasha

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Arthur and Betty in front of her Tesla

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Martha, Betty, Arthur, and Anika

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Martha, Betty, Arthur, and Anika

Anika's Notes


We all had eggs and apples for breakfast then started to drive into the city. Visited the science center and saw butterflies land on us, there was one with blue spots. Went up in the space needle and looked from the top. We could see the whole city!. We watched The Secret Life Of Pets in IMAX 3D. It was SOOO FUNNY. We skipped dinner because we weren't hungry and went to bed.



Then off to the Seattle Center. First we went to their science museum and saw a couple of exhibits, including a butterfly building and a bee colony.
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July 13, 2016, Wednesday — Chihuly Glass Exhibit

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a strange landscape of Chihuly glass

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two boat-loads of glass: one with spheres and the other with tentacles

Then off to the Chihuly Glass Museum, which was absolutely gorgeous. Anika got some great pictures there.
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Anika admires some of the huge glass blossoms

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another huge plate-bowl

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massive chandelier

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looking head-on at one of the exhibits

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We rode the monorail (on a round trip since we had no desire to get off to a shopping mall). It ends up going through a corner of a new Ghery Building, which was fantastic to see but did not photograph very well.
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Gehry buildings and giant maze

Afterwards, we went to a great park, including a fabulous jungle gym, a maze walk, and a sound exhibit where you can play music by striking different poles. We went to see a movie called The Secret Life of Pets” at the iMax in the Seattle Science Center. It was fun, but borrowed a lot from Toy Story. We had a late lunch of fish and chips.
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Anika on the geodesic jungle gym and slide

We went up to the top of the Space Needle to see the countryside.
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Anika and Arthur at the top of the Space Needle

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view from the top of the Space Needle



back to the Falicovs for dinner








Alexis

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