Sunday excursion

In the winter, we like to go to the Symphony on Sunday afternoon, but in the summer we seem to stick closer to home on the weekends. The traffic! hassle! tourists! Getting around Seattle can be a real headache. Our garden is a nice little sanctuary this time of year, so why leave home unless you have to?

We made an exception yesterday, and went downtown to the Seattle Art Museum to see an Andrew Wyeth exhibit. He is perhaps most famous for his painting "Christina's World."

The paintings in this show were from private collections, and most featured his famous neighbor Helga, whom he seemed to admire (at least as a model) a bit more than his wife! Along with other parts of her, he loved painting her German braids.Afterwards, we went across the street to the Pike Place Market to search out some lunch. The Seattle waterfront was lined with massive Alaska cruise ships, and I think everyone was on a shore excursion to the Market. Wall-to-wall people! We elbowed past the tourists gawking fish throwers and flower stalls to the lower level, and found a quiet Chinese restaurant with a killer view of Elliot Bay. Nice, fresh food too-- John enjoyed his "little" bowl of won ton soup.