Seattle

We packed as much in as possible in our short stay in Seattle. My brother and his family were still in school, so we started out by going to the Space Needle. We haven't been to Seattle since December of 2010, so it was fun to see the Space Needle with Hudson at a time he will remember it. It was a gorgeous day with blue skies, so we could see the entire city! Hudson, who is at times apprehensive of heights, was a little fearful of going out on the observation deck, but once he got out there he didn't want to leave. After that, we headed to Pike's Market.  Ric helped Hudson avoid the smelly fish, and the weather was perfect.

Another highlight of Seattle was going to the Chihuly Glass Museum. Hudson's school does a program called Art Adventure where they learn to examine and explore different works of art from the Minneapolis Institute of Art. This year one of the arts he explored was a Chihuly sculpture called Sunburst. Because of this we were very excited to see more of Chihuly's art installations, and it didn't disappoint. I can't wait to visit the Tacoma Chihuly exhibit the next time we come.

We also got to hang out with my brother, his family, and their two adorable ragdoll cats at their house. Hudson loved playing with them with a laser pointer. Buttercup is certainly not that entertained! After that we headed to Din Tai Fung, which was amazing. Soup dumplings!!!

I wish we would have been able to stay longer, but hope to get back soon. After all, we have lots of airline miles now! Check out some of the pictures we took here:

looking out from the observation deck

Chihuly sculpture

tired boy!

hanging with uncle Ric

Ric looks very relaxed.

Cousin Freyja!

Freyja, Ric, Tennille, Hudson and Chris

they are making dumplings!