Day 11 - Seattle Space Needle, Chihuly Exhibit and The Underground

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Started the day off at the Space Needle climbing 520 ft to the top in an elevator. Skies were bright and clear so many great views. Blue Angels gave us a real show with a 4 team formation and a 2 team formation buzzing near us for a long time. Then headed over to the Chihuly Exhibit which is an incredible array of blown glass sculptures - hard to imagine the skill and talent required to make these. Headed to an Underground Tour in the Pioneer Square area to see the city that lived below the streets for a time after the great fire in the 1880s - creepy and cool at the same time. Topped the day off with a night visit to the Space Needle to see the beautiful lights of the city and sunset.

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Photos

Space Needle
View from the ground

Space Needle
4 Blue Angels do a fly by in formation across the city

Space Needle
4 Blue Angels with the beautiful Mt Rainier in the background

Space Needle
Sean and Drew at the base

Chihuly Exhibit
Depiction of the sea waves and sealife

Chihuly Exhibit
His vision of a garden

Chihuly Exhibit
In Finland he thru glass objects into a river and local children recovered them in boats - he loved the way it looked and recreated it here.

Chihuly Exhibit
A "chandelier"

Chihuly Exhibit
His mother called these ugly and he decided to just call them spotted which in Italian is "Macchia" so he called this with many others in the room the Macchia Forest.

Chihuly Exhibit
He built this glass house just to accent the flower piece he created for it. It is assymetrical to play off of the Space Needle to the left and the Pacific Science Center to the right.

Chihuly Exhibit
Blown glass in the garden

Chihuly Exhibit
This one is titled "Sun"

Chihuly Exhibit
Love this "ball" in the garden

Chihuly Exhibit
Great color contrast in the garden.

Chihuly Exhibit
More chandeliers

Lunch Treat
Go into a sports restaurant and what do we find.....

Pioneer Square Underground
Old sign

Pioneer Square Underground
Former bank vault

Pioneer Square Underground
Street level "skylight" for the underground

Pioneer Square Underground
Smith Building was the tallest building west of the Mississippi when first built

Pioneer Square Underground
These windows used to look out but when the town was rebuilt and retaining wall built at every street that's what they looked out to.

Comments

[Lynda]

Love the blown glass exhibit!!