The Overpass is GLASS
Trip Start
Jul 08, 2006
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Trip End
Sep 03, 2006
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Tacoma, Washington
Sunday, August 27, 2006
For one, I wanted to do an "overnight" somewhere with the kids, and for two, well, I happen to like Tacoma, its beautiful setting, its easy-to-get-around size, and all the things there are to do. Like, Pt Defiance Zoo, which I learned is only a small part of Pt Defiance Park.
And like the Glass Museum, which has a Hot Shop the likes of which I don't think even exist anywhere else in the world. And the Glass Bridge? At least a million dollars worth of Chihuly glass on display (yes, I mean Dale Chihuly), you walk across a FREEWAY OVERPASS for gosh sake, and gaze right and left at hundreds of pieces of incredible blown glass, in security-wired glass cases; you gaze overhead at an ocean bottom of blown glass, thousands of recreations of underwater gorgeosity, it is a wonderland and yes boys and girls, it is FREE.
The Glass Bridge is a lovely pathway connecting the Glass Museum and the State Museum, and the State Museum is on a downtown street across from the Tacoma branch of the University of Washington, a tree-lined street that is, with the cutest little electric train shuttling you back and forth for FREE.
Zounds! Even with an overnight we don't have enough time to properly visit both the Museums, and the Hot Shop doesn't open till 1 PM on Sundays, so, we go for the Glass Bridge (as good as church!), and then, move on.
