Sunny Seattle... er...

Sara in front of the Seattle troll. That's a real VW Bug under his left hand. Better the Bug than Sara, I say.

Last week, Sara and I went to Seattle to visit her maternal grandparents, her aunt (Elizabeth), her aunt and uncle (Pamela and Mitchell) and their two little kids (Andrew and Elena). We had a blast! Though I had been to Seattle once, I didn't remember too much of it; just the Space Needle and the underground tour. This time, we went to the Experience Music Project museum, where we saw an exhibit detailing the development of the electric guitar from the 17th century to the present--it was fascinating. We had some local food (though no seafood), went to an awesome park (Gasworks) where kids can climb all over the old machinery that constituted a gasworks, watched boats being raised and lowered on the locks separating the Puget Sound from Lake Washington, and played lots of video games. We had a blast--if only the rain would ever abate...