Friday, December 29, 2006

A Fistful of Cuteness, plus Craggy McSnowsalot

I sort of promised some photos from my trip to the PNW, so here they are:

First, we must establish that Z loves chanukah:

Here he is with his first gift and grandpa herman’s menorah - DO NOT DISTURB a child in the zzzzzone....

He loved chanukah so much he’s like a menorah himself in a way -

He keeps going till he just burns out.

One afternoon, K and Z and I went to the Seattle Center (which is curiously eccentric, disconcertingly enough) to visit the Children’s Museum and whatever else they had going on.  The SC is where the world’s fair once was, and hence, where the Space Needle still is.  Here it is through a skylight of the big exhibit space/food court where we spent most of our time:

The lobby of this structure (the “Center House,” though “house” didn’t make any more sense than “center” does) had a big ol’ model train running on an enormous track laid out in the central area of the food court.  Zach wanted to make sure I didn’t miss it.

The Children’s Museum was a lot of fun and featured, among other exhibits, some “habitats” from other nations.  One was Japanese and included a train station variety kiosk where the japanese peoples buy all manner of comestibles.  This photo shows some of the drinks on offer in the display’s vending machine. 

For my fuller life, indeed.

Just outside the sun was setting and we were getting hungry so we just took some photos as we wandered back to the car:

A few days later we took a drive up through the Snomoshpit pass (I may have some of these details fuzzy) to a great “snow play” area, with plenty of authentic water-based snow:

Zach had never seen snow before and when he woke up in the car he was pretty dumbfounded - but as soon as he got out into it he was totally stoked, as I believe the young people put it:

We left as the sun began to drop behind the mountains and the air filled with an ethereal mist:

yeah, messed-up link, sue me I am moving on regardless to, finally, this tourist shot I took from the car on the way back to our place.

That’s all the photos we’re going to bother with right now, I think.  Maybe I’ll get a chance to post my “overcoming entropy” piece before the new year starts - it’s sort of thematic, if I can get off my ass to make it happen.  Right now I’m satisfied that I got these damn photos cropped down and posted.  Hope it’s a good way for you to conclude 2006.  It might just have to work for me.