Seattle

When my friend Michelle and I learned that the King Tut exhibit would be coming to Seattle, we knew it was something our boys would love to go to. We got a mad hook up at the Residennce Inn in Bellevue and made a weekend out of it. The kids loved staying in the hotel, naturally, and slept really well. The hotel had a Kinect in one it's conference/lounge rooms and it entertained them for quite some time.

While the husbands and older boys toured the King Tut exhibit, Michelle and I hung around the Pacific Science Center with the younger kids. They all wanted to go to the butterfly house, and despite knowing my girls, we went. Avery and Briella have acquired a new phobia of anything that flys/crawls. If Briella is in the same room as a spider, fly, ant, etc. she will scream bloody murder. Avery can't fall asleep if she sees a shadow on the ceiling that may be a bug. But they love looking at butterflies so I thought it might be ok. They were terrified that something was going to land on them the minute we stepped in. Briella was on constant look out for incoming insects so the few times I tried to get a picture of them didn't go too well. 

 

 

 

Back inside and safe

After the butterfly debacle we wandered around all the safely contained bugs (while I tried really hard not to walk past the giant animitronic praying mantis) and then headed outside to let the kids blow bubbles. 

The boys had a blast seeing the King Tut exhibit.

The museum had tons of other fun things to do as well. This was a two-way mirror that had us all cracking up!

After we left the museum we wandered around the Space Needle and then headed to the fountain. We weren't planning on this but the kids had a blast and didn't get completely soaked.

The next day we went to the Children's Museum by the Space Needle. While we were there we discovered that our good friends from Arizona were just upstairs! They were on their way to see family in Washington and were killing a couple hours. Our two oldest kids were born just a few months apart and spent a lot of time together when we lived in Utah. It's amazing how much has changed in 8 years! 

We took the tram to downtown and tried to find a good place for dinner, that was an adventure! After dinner we headed back home. It was such a great weekend with wonderful friends.