Washington Spring Break Pt. 8 of 9

This is how we found Gage this morning.  It seems like his air mattress might have sprung a leak!  He almost had to call for help to get extracted from his cozy bed.  Gavin was lucky and had an actual bed to sleep in, and Gage took one for the team and had this air mattress.  It generally worked out fairly well, though this wasn't what he was planning on exactly...

Today's big adventure was to head to downtown Seattle and find some stuff to do down there.  The first plan was to go to the Space Needle and see some of the art museums that are in that area.

It is fairly impressive to see up close, but it turns out it is quite the tourist racket.  Tickets to go up in the Space Needly are like $40 a person and you only get maybe 15-20 minutes up there before your turn is up.  Deciding that it wasn't worth that, we circled through the souvenir shop for a bit and then walked to our next idea for a fun place. 

We ended up at the Chihuly Garden and Glass Museum which turned out to be super awesome!  This kind of stuff is right up Gavin's alley.  All of the work in this museum is hand blown glass and they put together this massive art pieces.

They also do smaller stuff like this bowl-like or flower-like pieces that are beautiful under the light.  This was probably my favorite of all of these types of sculptures.  Some smaller versions of these pieces were on sale in the shop at the end and were quite expensive!

This is a little hard to see but is a glass blown black octopus on top of this whiter crystalline mesh.  I have no idea how they can do some fine work with glass, pretty impressive.

After you walk through the main museum, they had a live glass blowing show going on which you could see and learn about how to make simple pieces.  We stayed and watched this for about 30 minutes before finally moving through to the other side of the gallery, which was more of an outdoor section.