Oh My Gosh It's October!

Hello and welcome to my ongoing series of adventures in Seattle. As you may remember, my husband and I took a recent train trip from the SF Bay Area to Seattle, Washington. I am writing about it as part of the October Ultimate Blogging Challenge. 

Yesterday I wrote about our trip to the Space Needle. I am glad we were able to see that as it crosses off something that was on my husband's bucket list. After we wandered around the gift shop on the ground floor we walked down the path to our next stop, The Chihuly Garden and Glass. I had never heard of Chihuly and had no idea what we were going to see there. When I stepped into the first exhibit it took my breath away. 

The black and white one on the upper left is called Winter Brilliance. Then there were some smaller blown glass pieces that looked like something you would see as a centerpiece on a table. 

As we wandered through to the next area, suddenly the colors started appearing. Such vibrant displays of art and amazing to think that it is blown glass. The rooms were divided into different displays, the Sealife Room, Ikebana and Float Boats, Chandeliers and Macchia Forest. These displays were huge and extended all across the floor. Just stunning. I took a gazillion pictures but won't bore you with them all here. 

There is a room with a glass ceiling and resting on that are tons of glass sculptures of all sizes and shapes. My husband turned his phone upside down and filmed it as we walked across. It's called the Persian Ceiling.

In the middle of a courtyard between the indoor exhibit and the outside garden there was a glass blowing demonstrator and some tables and chairs so you can sit and have a drink if you want. You walk through a glass house to get to the outside garden where there were more glass sculptures mixed in with the flowers and trees. Not quite as striking as the inside vibrant pieces but they were still very nice. 

I wanted to see what these outside sculptures looked like when they were lit up in the evening so I decided to walk back up from our hotel once it was dark to see if I could get in again since our ticket said it was good all day. Unfortunately you are only allowed one entrance a day but the guy at the desk said that I might be able to see some of them through the fence. I did my best to sleuth but it was dark, I was alone and I couldn't really get close enough to see anything through the trees and shrubs. I did get the Space Needle again at night and the fountain. 

After our wanderings through the Chihuly exhibit we went back to our hotel to rest before our next experience, a tour around the harbor. Come back tomorrow and check it out!