Thursday April12, 2012 Glass Museum

Today our 'Explorers Club' (all 2 of us) went to the Tacoma Museum of Glass. It was AWESOME! From the very beginning when you start your adventure I was amazed at the beauty. To get to the museum you first cross this awesome bridge of glass. A partnership between the Museum of Glass, legendary Studio Glass pioneer Dale Chihuly and the city of Tacoma resulted in the Chihuly Bridge of Glass, a 500-foot-long pedestrian overpass links the Museum to downtown Tacoma and its cultural corridor.

At the approach to the Museum is the Venetian Wall, an eighty-foot installation displaying 109 sculptures from three of Chihuly's series: Venetians, Ikebana, and Putti. Three distinct installations comprise the Bridge of Glass. Furthest from the Museum is the Seaform Pavilion, a ceiling made of 2,364 objects from Chihuly's Seaform and Persian series. Placed on top of a fifty-by-twenty-foot plate-glass ceiling, the forms are suspended in midair and make dramatic use of natural light. As we walked under this pavilion, it was like we were walking in an underwater world of glass shapes and forms a few feet above our heads. The bridge of glass was so beautiful... and we had not even entered the building yet! It was kind of a chilly day so my favorite part of the museum was the Museum’s Hot Shop and watch the visiting artists demonstrate the fascinating process of creating works of art from molten glass. Glassblowing is a mesmerizing and magical process, and it was so nice and cozy.... with the heat coming off the 'hot pots' of molten glass! Yoli and I had a wonderful day. I can't wait till the next Explorers Club outing!

Saturday, April 7, 2012 Newbee Run Tahuya

QuadraPaws 4X4 Club / Tahuya State ORV Park. Ben and I searched the web and found a local 4X4 Jeep Club. We went to a meeting to meet everyone and they invited us to join them on what they call the 'Newbee Run'. The 1st Saturday of every month everyone meets at the Safeway in Bellfair and then heads out for the Tahuya ORV park. What a fun and beautiful park. There are 4X4 trails exclusively for Jeeps and other off road vehicles, 4-runner trails and motorcycle trails. All the trail are desperate so you don't have to worry about coming around a sharp corner and running into a 4-wheeler or motorcycle! The weather was BEAUTIFUL a little cool up on the mountain but it was so nice to be in the woods! I had forgotten how much I loved the smell of trees and earth. The group is composed of young and old, men and even some women drivers... and everyone was so nice. One of our members is a Washington state trooper... so NO drinking on the trails, now THAT'S different from our usual Jeep trips, LOL. As a non-driver, I could have a cocktail when we stopped for lunch... but NO open containers! (Poor Ben). So we have to attend 3 meeting and go on 3 4X4 runs to be eligible to join the jeep club.... so 2 more meeting and 2 more runs. Can't wait!

Saturday, March 25, 2012 Kales Birthday

I have been falling down on my 'blog'. OMG has it really been almost 2 months since I last sat down at the computer and recorded our journey??? So I have decided to 'backtrack' and record some of the events over the past several weeks... ok months....  It's like I have got so far behind in the Blog I don't know where to start???? So I will begin on a happy note, our Grandson Kale's 3rd Birthday.

Ben and I drove up to Port Hadlock to spend the day with our 'little man'. The weather was great, we had the party outside and Kale loved having a party that was ALL ABOUT HIM. He got a new bike from Mom and Dad, complete with training wheels although he thought it was much more fun to have Dad push him than to actually work and 'peddle' on his own. LOL

Kale and Grandma had fun in the Bouncy Castle, although I got my butt kicked when the rest to the kids climbed in.... God I wish I had half the energy these kids have! All in all it was a great day. I ate lot's of "Cars" blue cake... I think I still have blue teeth......