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We visited Tumwater Falls, fancy fish climbing structures so the Salmon/etc don't have to attempt futility with the waterfalls (this
doesn't look so easy though)
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Who would WANT to swim there?
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I'm not sure the fish got the message that the waters were closed
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How can anyone manage to get that water into their mouth?
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Tumwater Falls
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Brad's extra off-camera strobes came in handy
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I hope these had some purpose back in the day?
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I wonder if the employees of the Olympia Brewery Co understood the irony of presenting a water fountain to a park, maybe
they were out of beer fountains
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This "park meter" was an interesting idea for donations I hadn't seen before
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Boeing headquarters, sadly we didn't get a chance to take the tour but I hear it is cool
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In Seattle's historic Georgetown area the Old Rainier Brewery was the largest on the west coast until prohibition and
the Stock House on the grounds of the brewery was used in ice making until 2003 when the freezer was turned off and the
ground under the foundation melted causing the foundation and walls to crack. Part of it
was then torn down for new development transforming the area into something other than the historic working class
neighborhood it had been for decades before...and perhaps you can own the last piece of that!
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The Seattle Public Library has a meager $43 MM
annual budget, the central branch opened in 2004 and was designed by Rem Koolhaas. It was listed in the the American Institute of Architects' (AIA)
Americans' 150 favorite structures in the US (wow, I'd hate to maintain their lists, Pakistani's favorite structures in Mali, Brits favorite
structures in Fuji, etc).
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We've arrived - wake up Joshua!
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Brad and the...pig of the market?
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Ah, the memorable Bill Nye of the "Bill Nye the Science Guy" PBS Series of yore
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Seattle Seahawk/Qwest Stadium with Mt. Rainier in the background
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Pike Place Market opened in 1907 and is one of the oldest continually
operated public markets in the US. Also more than 500 low income people reside throughout the facility which also includes a medical clinic
and provides fresh food vouchers redeemable at the market. About 90% are low-income seniors with rent control.
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We attended Mass at the super St. Leo's Jesuit parish in Tacoma, here's their
baptismal font and chrism oils
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Nice music
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A Kattelmann family portrait!
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LOTS of nametags for parishoners
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Joshua entertains himself
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The main fish thrower people in Pike's Place Market were off for the 4th of July, I was sad when I only encountered their ice
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Brad and Alison get these fruit rolls each time they visit the market and I can see why - they were really cheap and very tasty
rolled in coconut and flavors of cherry, kiwi, strawberry and more!
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Pike Place Chowder (recently lost the ownership of it's website domain name) was the stop for lunch in Pike Place Market's Post
Alley. It was very good (a bit heavy though) and has won the title of Rhode Island's "Nation's Best Clam Chowder" in 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2006 it seems.
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From this photo I can also tell you they save electricity with energy star CFL bulbs and close at 3pm on July 4th
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A restaurant across the way was closed but had a window on an American flag - is this a metaphor?
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An American pig, Pike Place Market holds a parade of pigs fundraiser each year
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Happy shoppers in the market
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Crabs...
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How can you rather be shopping at Pike Place Market when you're AT Pike Place Market?
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It is S-T-A-R..
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BUCKS! The first one ever...now I just have to figure out how to go back in time to stop this evil force from coming to pass. Daniel
does like them though...
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I thought I could find out what the heck this means, but no luck - I did find one other person who took a photo
of the exact same thing on Flickr
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Really nice flowerbeds on top of the parking garage
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A free ride...joy!
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Evil Real Networks - builder of the most annoying app in the world...(but to be fair in the early days of the internet before mp3/etc their
compression was advanced)
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Seattle has a very odd fire hydrant design...(perhaps it's all of WA since Tacoma/Ft. Lewis also had these)
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Pretty downtown buildings in Seattle
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Who will worship at the Labor Temple?
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Zipcar!
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I think this was a local TV station with a helicopter/pad on top
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Sun shining through a sculpture near the Space Needle
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The needle was built for the 1962 World's Fair and amazingly was built to survive 200 mph winds and a 9.1 earthquake, actually I suppose
it's not amazing until it survives one or both of those. It sounds more sinister if I tell you it was build by the "Pentagram Corporation" (it was!).
Rennovations in 2000 cost $21 MM and fireworks planned for the year 2000 were cancelled due to perceived terrorist threats on the structure.
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Hannah Montana is EVERYWHERE - even this arcade near the needle
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Brad and Alison play Dance Dance Revolution EXTREME edition as their child dreams of walking someday
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Bumper cars in fast motion
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That's the prettiest needle I've seen!
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Brad isn't sick, at least not physically - he's trying to get a good photo of Alison, Joshua and myself with the needle towering above
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The result
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No that's not 520 degrees, but 520 foot view...
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Does this mean Joshua is blessed or cursed?
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The Seattle Center Monorail is an engineering marvel, but sadly only has 7,000 riders per day. It cost $3.5 MM to build also for the
1962 World's Fair when it had 8 million riders and now it has about 2.5 million per year.
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Here comes the mo-no-rail
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The rails of the monorail
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View of the market from hillside above
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Lights in Pike Place Market
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The tiles at the market are numbered
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Yummy, the market was closing up and I hear someone mention fruit flies...fun!
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Floor of Pike Place Market (usually you can't even SEE the floor when it's packed)
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Leftovers!
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Nice mural seen from the elevator near the market
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This isn't the Seattle Hotel as that has been torn down replaced
with an odd modern parking lot called the "Sinking Ship" - it was the first razing planned as a part of a project to tear down
all historic buildings in the district that only succeeded in tearing down that one structure.
The pictured building is the Smith Tower at 42 stories was the tallest building on the
west coast from 1914 until 1962 (when the space needle overtook it). At the top is an eight-foot diameter glass dome that is
lit by a blue light 11 months of the year and in December it is green.
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In the Beacon Hill neighborhood sits the Pacific Medical Center formerly a Marine hospital now Amazon.com headquarters
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It's TACO TIME - I hope they get a better font soon - I swear their main sign is in Arial
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Brad and I went back to Tacoma to drop off Alison and Joshua (Alison gets crabby if she doesn't hit her bedtime on the dot - just kidding :) ) then
we went back up to Alki Beach to see the fireworks
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Competitor!
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Pretty cityscape
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Seattle Space Needle
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Then suddenly when Brad was letting me use his nice tripod the fireworks started
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Even though Brad was yelling at me to immediately give him the tripod I snapped a few shots before I feared for my
life and let him use it
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I wish we had a video camera or patience for time lapse photography - the fireworks smoke drifting through Seattle would have looked
quite neat
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