Seattle Adventure with Sam and SAM

As promised, here are a few shots from our downtown Seattle adventures yesterday. "Adventures," of course, being subject to perspective. One thing about exploring the city with a 4 year old: most everything is an adventure...to him, to me, or, on occasion, to others. It's either new to him or newly complicated for me. We rode the bus down to check out the current exhibit on impressionism at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM). It reminded me of my most favorite museum in the world, the Musée d'Orsay in Paris to which I long to return. Admiring the art with Sam, we didn't get to spend as much time as we would have liked, but actually, we did devote a surprisingly satisfying amount of attention on the exhibit. As we have learned to appreciate: Some is better than none. And, who knew that Sam could get so interested in impressionistic paintings of ships, windmills, or boys reading--to name his top favorites? Of course, in the interest of full disclosure, he was most amused, as always, by the toilet in the permanent collection.

We took a quick trip through Pike's Place Market (which per usual on a summer Sunday was insanely crowded) to pick up some spices and watch some cheese making.

Then we walked down the waterfront to the SAM Olympic Sculpture Park.

As we wound down, we grabbed a quick early dinner, hiked to the closest #12 bus stop, waited and waited for the bus, detoured to the bathroom, then waited for the bus again. Ahh, the boy slept well last night!