Monday is Sculpture Park, Aquarium and Oysters

The Sculpture Park is fairly new, and right on the waterfront (of course, up and down hills all the way). They have an amazing Richard Serra, which is just huge, and sort of gives you vertigo when you walk through it--it really feels like waves.

The Seattle Aquarium is small but very nice. My favorite part of the aquarium are the undersea glass tiles done by an elementary school --they are just beautiful. I found this photo of them online. They have several large tanks, and an outside area with sea otters and river otters which are so cute you could just die. They just don't stay still long enough to take a picture of them. They also have an open tide pool where you can touch everything. I think the best part of the visit is watching the kids. Above is a photo of a scuba diver doing an introduction to the aquarium from the tank!

I could not wait to get to Oyster Happy Hour at Shucker's at the Fairmont Hotel. Many of Seattle's Seafood Bars & Restaurants have oyster happy hours, where the oysters are $1 and drinks are incredibly reasonable. This place is totally out of our league, but not during Happy Hour :) If you have not had the pleasure of tasting West Coast oysters, they are phenomenal--tender, sweet, and lots of variety. We had 3 different kinds (Kumomoto, Evening Cove and Quilcene), a dozen and a 1/2 please :) Just yummy!

Oh, and by the way, here are the stairs we climbed to get from the Aquarium to Shuckers.


Dinner was at a lovely Italian restaurant in Belltown near our hotel called La Vita E Bella. I had been there before, and I knew Robert would love it.