See-Att-Uhl, Day 4: On the Waterfront

I realized that family starts to descend on Milwaukee as early as tomorrow for Mr. Jonah's second birthday, and I still need to finish any blogging related to our Seattle trip from nearly a month ago. Where the heck did this month go????

With this in mind, I will try to make this one a bit less long winded than the previous posts. This was our last full day in Seattle, and we still had a couple activities left with our City Passes: The Seattle Aquarium and a Harbor Cruise.

We started the morning with a trip to Starbucks #1 store, which isn't in the original location, but is located on Pike Place, where it moved after several years in its first location.

Is it a real Starbucks? :)

The line to place an order wasn't bad, but the pick-up line took forever! I hung out with Jonah outside (he was in the backpack) listening to the guy with the guitar in this photo while Michelle waited inside for our order.

Then we continued the walk to the Seattle Aquarium. We got in quickly with the expedited City Pass lane. From the start, it seemed like it was going to be a good time. Jonah was enthralled by the big tank in the entry way, which had a diver cleaning the glass.

Checking out the diver with the other kids. 

"Fish!"

Happy boy at the aquarium!

Unlike the touch tank at the Pacific Science Center a couple days before, Jonah loved touching the star fish, urchins, and anemones at the aquarium.

The green anemone was one of Jonah's favorites. He still mentions it.

 

One of the employees brought this starfish down for Jonah, but other kids kind of took over.

One of Jonah's favorite parts of the aquarium was the jellyfish tank. It is a big ring shaped tank set into the floor that has a light that cycles through the colors of the rainbow. 

Jonah particularly liked when the jellyfish were green or blue.

We made our way through the rest of the aquarium and saw lots of cool stuff, but it was clear Jonah was getting tired toward the end.

The octopus was *very* active!

It even came over to visit!

"Big fish!"

Pointing out the fish to other kids.

As usual, lights and floor outlets were just, if not more, interesting than the exhibits.

Riding Daddy's shoulders.

The otters looked very comfortable.

If you go to the Seattle Aquarium, we highly recommend the cafe. They had great food and reasonable prices.

After lunch, we picked up harbor cruise tickets. With a little time to kill, we hit the carousel again before taking in the sights on the cruise. Jonah was excited to be on the boat at first, but he soon found it more interesting to climb from seat to seat.

Boat! Boat!

"I want to sit over there, now!"

Taking in the sights with Mommy.

Yoga on the boat?

This way works to get over, too.

After an active day, Jonah was pretty tuckered out, and fell asleep in the backpack on the walk back to the hotel. Plenty of people noticed the sleeping baby... 

Sleepy boy!

That just does not look comfortable.

We had dinner at a Thai restaurant that night. Jonah wanted "noodles!" but wouldn't eat the ones in his meal. Fortunately he ate the rice. The restaurant was at a mall in the area which had the most un-family friendly family bathrooms we've ever seen.

Really? Who is going to do this? Do these bathrooms (three of them lined up) ever get used?

All in all, it was a nice final day in the Northwest. We look forward to visiting again some day when we can better take in the mountains and surrounding area. Thankfully the flights home were uneventful apart from a somewhat tight connection at MSP where we had to make our way across the entire airport. Jonah was happy to ride the train at the airport, though.