Cutters Crabhouse - Fresh Market Seafood

Cutters has a van that will pick up at the hotel and bring downtown to their restaurant.  This is was my last night in Seattle and I wanted seafood.  This is me after the great scallops.  I ended the meal with a chocolate soufflé.  It was also great.  I am off on the cruise today.

Pike Street Market, Seattle, WA

Pike Street Market is down near the waterfront.  I took the monorail to downtown and walked the rest of the way.  This is a really fun place to visit.

The man in the picture was doing tricks with his parrot.  The parrot is 16 years old and can live to 65.  He said they have been coming to the market for 16 years.  Unlike most people performing there was no tip container in site.

Inside there were stalls and stalls of gorgeous flowers.  I would love to have purchased some but what do you do with them in a hotel room?

All this sea food and no place to cook!  There were several other places like this one.  I got a picture of someone else taking a picture.

Bahn Thai is up the street from the hotel and where I ate Friday night.

Space Needle

View from Space Needle.  Everything I went to today was in the same area.  The Space Needle was a must stop and my last stop.

There is a sea plane landing in this picture.

You can see Mount Rainier through the haze.  It is very faint in the background.  I visited there when I was here last.  It is an active volcano and if it erupts Seattle is in trouble.  

 This group was playing outside the Space Needle.

Glass House and Chihuly Garden Exhibit

Display in the Glass House

This is the only piece that is not hand blown glass.  It is a molded plastic.

One of the garden displays.  They are tough enough to stand the weather outside.

Some are easy to see.

Some are really large.

And some are almost hidden.

There are a whole group hanging from the ceiling as you leave the display.

These two show up when you are outside the garden.

Inside the Chihuly Garden and Glass Exhibit

"I want people to be overwhelmed with light and color in a way they have never experienced."  Dale Chihuly  Chihuly is the guiding genius behind each of these creations.  All of the glass is hand blown.    There is a theater which shows 30 minutes of short films about Chihuly.  I sat and watched every one.  

This is a ceiling made up of many glass pieces.    I almost did not go to this exhibit but decided to pay of the combination Space Needle and Chihuly Glass Exhibit.  I am very glad I did.  I spent more time in this exhibit than I did in King Tut.

This is a large room size piece.  

Another ceiling shot.

Small part of the room size piece.

Another part of the room size piece.

I had left the room with the glass ceiling when I looked back and noticed what it did to the wall so I came back for another shot.

Two boats filled with blown glass shapes.

One of the many chandeliers in one room.

Hand Blown glass bowls in another room.  The gift shop had small bowls for sale.    They ranged from $6000 to $8000.   I didn't buy one.

Tropical Butterfly House

A visit to the Butterfly House was included in the price of the King Tut ticket.  You have to look close to see the first two Butterflies.  I got 10 good pictures out of around 50 I took.  I did wish I had my Canon or Nikon SLR.  The point and shoot has trouble staying steady when it is focused up close.  

On of the feeding stations.

I like this one.  The butterfly becomes part of the sign.

Pharaoh's Gold, King Tut

I went in with the first group at 10:00 and it was not crowded.   This is the line around 11:00 when I came out.  I did not try to take pictures.  I had only my small point and shoot camera and sometimes I have trouble turning off the flash.  I have been to three Egyptian exhibits.  This one was very good and I was glad I went.  Worth seeing if you are in Seattle.  When it leaves here it goes back home.    

There were a lot of school kids around and the courtyard had things they could play with.  Here they are trying to ture the metal disks with a fire hose.