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Museum of Glass
Feb. 8th, 2009 10:40 pmYesterday it occurred to me that it would be my last free Saturday for a very long while. So we decided to go for a drive. I stopped in at "Gotta Lube!" for an oil change, did some shopping, and after lunch we headed to the Museum of Glass in Tacoma.
More pictures here. We parked the car at the Tacoma Dome station and caught the light rail into town.
We got the opportunity to see the very end of the day's demonstration as a finished piece of glass art was delivered into the heavily gloved hands of one of the glassmaking crew. I was struck by how little space is actually available for exhibits.
Afterwards we took some pictures on the plaza between the museum itself and the Thea Foss Waterway, and some more from the plaza on top of the museum where the Chihuly Glass Bridge connects the museum with downtown Tacoma over the rail corridor and I-705.
While waiting for the light rail train to return us to our car,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gmjambear noticed a succession of people taking their time entering or leaving the diagonal parking spaces across the street from the station, and recorded the resulting traffic backup with the camera.
On our return trip we took WA 509 over the cable-stay bridge featured in the pictures and followed it around the edge of Commencement Bay and up onto the high bluffs overlooking Puget Sound at Dash Point. The road leads to the home of our friends in Federal Way, where we joined them for dinner and a pleasant conversation before heading back to Everett.
All in all, a good way to spend a Saturday.
More pictures here. We parked the car at the Tacoma Dome station and caught the light rail into town.
We got the opportunity to see the very end of the day's demonstration as a finished piece of glass art was delivered into the heavily gloved hands of one of the glassmaking crew. I was struck by how little space is actually available for exhibits.
Afterwards we took some pictures on the plaza between the museum itself and the Thea Foss Waterway, and some more from the plaza on top of the museum where the Chihuly Glass Bridge connects the museum with downtown Tacoma over the rail corridor and I-705.
While waiting for the light rail train to return us to our car,
gmjambear noticed a succession of people taking their time entering or leaving the diagonal parking spaces across the street from the station, and recorded the resulting traffic backup with the camera.On our return trip we took WA 509 over the cable-stay bridge featured in the pictures and followed it around the edge of Commencement Bay and up onto the high bluffs overlooking Puget Sound at Dash Point. The road leads to the home of our friends in Federal Way, where we joined them for dinner and a pleasant conversation before heading back to Everett.
All in all, a good way to spend a Saturday.
