A sunny afternoon stroll through Seattle

Friday morning and the impact of the last few hectic days hit hard.  We are both shattered and decide to spend the morning just chilling in the apartment.  We have decided to use the website airbnb wherever possible.  Instead of staying in an impersonal hotel, we get to stay in somebody's home.  This apartment is in the Fremont area of Seattle and has a beautiful view over Lake Union.

When we venture out we find that our luck with the weather is still holding.  It is a beautiful sunny afternoon.

We head to the Seattle Olympic Sculpture park.  This is a beautiful space, that is a delight to wander through.  However, it cost a whopping $85 million dollars to build.  And now I have to confess what complete and utter art philistines we both are.  The joy that Stuart and I found walking through this park was in the descriptions that had been attributed to each piece of art.

To share the joy I have put together a little quiz.  

1- Match the sculpture with its description, 

2 - Figure out which description is false.  

See answers at the bottom of this post

To be fair, not all the artwork descriptions were a pretentious load of old cod (did I mention what philistines we are?!)

There was one piece that we found particularly engaging.  The description is as follows:-

This sculpture is functional but also has content that you discover through participation.  You need to put the meaning together by sitting on it, and then recomposing what you have seen and experienced in your mind's eye.  Only then will the theme - the process of love and loss - be revealed for you to sit here and contemplate.

We quickly figured out that the words love & loss were the sculptures.  The letters L are the two benches, the O is the table between them, the child is playing on the two Ss and the V is the base of the tree.  However, we couldn't find the E!  So I am wandering around the sculpture, climbing on it looking down at it and Stuart starts talking about it to the other folk walking by.  We had quite a crowd gathered by the time we all figured out that the letter e was the table top where the man with the umbrella is sitting on the right side of the photo!

I think when we get home I'm going to send Stuart into his tool shed and ask him to build something big.  It doesn't matter what, so long as we write a description that is beyond rational thought or meaning.  We could make millions!

The rest of the afternoon is a very leisurely stroll along the waterfront enjoying the sunshine

This week we have been very good with healthy eating (another reason we have chosen to stay in apartments rather than hotels).  However, it's Friday night so we decide to treat ourselves and book into a seafood restaurant called Brooklyn.  (A recommendation Stuart sourced by talking to the fishmongers at Pike market!)

You can see the delight in my face as I study the menu!

I think we are both pretty relaxed by now!

Quiz Answers

Qn 1

A - 2

B - 5

C - 3

D - 6

E - 4

F - 1

Qn 2

None of them are false!!