EMP Museum

We had fun going back up to Seattle and going through the EMP museum, which is a museum mostly about music history.  However, they also had some cool collections from science-fiction and fantasy TV shows and movies.  They had some really cool exhibits with old guitars, hands on exhibits and one of my favorites was seeing a life-size Dalek.  Here are the pictures from our trip to the EMP museum.

This was in the center of the museum and went up three stories.

They had a bunch of really cool old guitars.

Alden and Daddy listening to music from a variety of bands.

The awesome life-size Dalek!

An original Cyberman costume.

A Star Trek costume and weapons from all different Science-Fiction movies.

Alden really liked the Superman costume.

Some original costumes from The Wizard of Oz and the Princess Bride.  The dress from The Princess Bride  was so beautiful in person.

Bow and arrow from The Chronicles of Narnia.

These are model buildings built from legos.  The one Drew is standing next to is in Dubai, close to where he will be next year.

Alden loved this section of the museum where he got to play with actual instruments.  He loved the guitar and drums.

Alden got the hang of using the drumsticks really quickly.

We had an awesome time walking around the museum and seeing tons of new things.  I loved the science-fiction and fantasy exhibits, Alden loved the hands-on instruments and I think Drew just had fun seeing everything.  It was an awesome day and a cool experience.

Alden's Lesson in Taking Turns

Playing Farkle with Alden was a very interesting experience.  Farkle is a game where all you do is roll dice to get sets, runs, etc in order to get points so it was easy for Alden to play.  The funny thing about it was that Alden did not like letting other people take turns.  He would pass the dice to the next person and wait but he cried the whole time he had to wait for his turn.  Here is a video of how Alden played Farkle.

Such a sad face.

Alden was always very happy when it was his turn.

If you can't tell from this picture Alden ended up winning his first game.  Although he wasn't the happiest winner, I was proud of how well he passed off the dice to the next person by the end.

Pacific Science Center

Okay so we went to the Pacific Science Center but my camera battery died and I had to use Drew's phone to take pictures of our time there.  However it took me over a year to get the pictures off his phone so this post is mostly going to just be a photo dump now...  Sorry the I don't have more to write about the experience but I am having trouble remembering all the specifics a year later.

I do remember that Alden had fun exploring all the exhibits that he could touch.

Alden also thought the dinosaurs were one of the highlights of the day.

They had this water feature in the middle of the courtyard and you could make it do things by turning the steering wheel and other things.

Drew had to show how strong he was on the pull-up bar.

 But then Alden wanted a turn too.

This was a butterfly house that we could go into.  Alden thought it was really neat that there were so many butterflies to see.

 Drew and I really enjoyed seeing all of the butterflies too.

I do remember that we had a really fun time at the Pacific Science Center and I wouldn't mind going back.  I am just sad that it took me so long to get these pictures and post them.  Oh well, it gave me a chance to look back and see how much Alden has grown in a year.

Pike Place Market

After we went up to the top of the Space Needle we walked around the Seattle Center and when Drew saw the Seattle Monorail he decided it would be fun to take a ride and see where it went, so we did.  The monorail took us to downtown Seattle near Pike's Place Market.  We ended up walking around Pike's Place Market and stopping to eat lunch at a place there.

Traveling on the Seattle monorail.

This was where we ended up and after we got off the monorail we just followed the mass of people to figure out where to go.

It was such a beautiful day to be exploring Seattle.

I should have taken more pictures in the market but in some places they had booths and booths of things to look at and in other places they had actual stores you could go into.  It was really cool to walk around and see everything.

The place we stopped for lunch was also a cheese processing plant.  You could watch them make cheese while you ate your food.

After we had walked around the market we headed back to the monorail to go back to the Seattle Center where we had started.