Lesley and I went to work on Tuesday and left David and Karen with directions by bus to the Aquarium. Lesley worked a full day, but I only worked a half day and it went by very quickly. After I got off work, David and Karen were just finishing up at the Aquarium, so I went to the waterfront to meet them. They had enjoyed the otters at the aquarium, but didn't seem particularly impressed overall.

We walked along the waterfront briefly and stopped in one of the souvenir stores. We then headed down to Olympic Sculpture Park. David remembered the centerpiece of the park, Alexander Calder's Eagle, from its time in downtown Fort Worth, where he grew up. After walking through the park, we headed back to our apartment to eat some of the leftover Chinese and Thai food that we had.

While eating, we watched the hilarious Double Rainbow video and the catchy auto-tuned version.

After lunch, we took the bus to Seattle Center and went to the top of the Space Needle. We spent a good amount of time up there and I pointed out everything I could. They had a lot of questions but I was able to answer most of them. By this time, Lesley had gotten off of work, so we took the bus back to meet her at the apartment.

We then headed to the Chittenden Locks in Ballard, which separate the salt water of Puget Sound from the fresh water of Lake Union. There's a fish ladder there to allow salmon to return to where they were spawned, and typically we don't see a lot of fish here, but this time there were a lot, the most we'd ever seen.

For dinner, we ate outside at La Carta de Oaxaca, and then walked through Ballard to pick up some cupcakes for dessert from Cupcake Royale. Before heading back home, we stopped at Gas Works park at just the right time. The sun was low in the sky, igniting the skyline with sunlight and since it was a Tuesday, Lake Union was full of sailboats. We then went to the top of the hill and saw a sun dial that we didn't know was there. It took a little while to figure out how it was supposed to work, but it was pretty cool. We also drove through Fremont to point out the unique sights (Lenin statue, Waiting for the Interurban sculpture, and Fremont Troll). We made a quick stop at Kerry Park right around sunset and had a beautiful view of the city and Mount Rainier.

Once back at our apartment, we ate our cupcakes, which Karen loved. David got the triple chocolate threat, Karen got the vanilla lavender, Lesley got the carrot cake, and I got the chocolate coconut bunny. We also then watched The Sting with Paul Newman and Robert Redford, which Karen hadn't seen but is one of my favorite films. I also did some research for our next day at Mount Rainier.