Seattle

Kenny had never been to Seattle, so we stayed a few days thanks to my mom graciously letting us use her condo timeshare. We stayed at The Camlin in downtown Seattle (near Pike's Place) and we liked it fine for something in the city.
One of the biggest reasons Kenny wanted to stop in Seattle was to see the Nintendo Headquarters of America in Redmond (turns out it is literally next door to the Microsoft headquarters).

It ended up not having much for tourists, but we got to take pictures and go to the gift shop, where we bought a soccer ball that looks like a chain chomp and a plush bumble-bee Mario.
We also walked to Pike's Place market, where I got to revisit the store where we bought my first harp in 1998. We had a lot of fun just looking around, and I'm very proud to say we didn't buy a thing.
We hit up the Seattle Aquarium as well, but I remember it being a lot bigger and cooler than it was. Daniel enjoyed that he got to put his hand in the water at a few places (though he couldn't reach the anemones that I got to poke):

Walking around Seattle is tough, there are so many hills:

It really tired Daniel out:


The highlight of our stay in Seattle was something I didn't even plan: there was a Jim Henson Exhibit at the Seattle Center.


It was awesome. We got to see this delightful little video of a very young Kermit learning about visual thinking and Jazz:

And Kenny got to be a muppeteer for a live Muppet band (videos will be posted sometime):


We got to see my high school friend Megan Spencer, which was a lot of fun (sadly I forgot to take a pic). It was so good to see friends and hang out with Lori (and see her new house, which I'm way excited about.) Then we headed on down to Vancouver again... (to be continued)