Well today was both exciting and traumatic! Jennifer took me out to the local coffee shop called STARBUCKS. Apparently coffee is a huge thing here cause we had to wait in a long line. We did finally get a cup of jo. Jennifer recommended that I take it easy with a cup of the Pike Place brew.
After the coffee shop we were headed back to the car when suddenly I fell out of Jennifer's carrying case AKA her purse. Jennifer did not notice that I had fallen and continued about her business. I was left alone for about 20minutes, all sorts of thoughts began to run threw my head. When all of sudden Jennifer came running back up and saved me.
Thankfully Jennifer has a friend who specializes in Traumatic Counseling after about an hour on his couch I was able to work out my thoughts and am now recovering from the trauma.
I was actually able to talk to Franklin D Rosevelt about D-Day on this phone.
Built in 1911 at the terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad, Union Station is one of downtown Tacoma's shining jewels. A magnificent example of the Beaux Arts style of architecture, the structure served train passengers into the 1980s but fell into disrepair as interest in railroad travel diminished. In the 1990s, the City of Tacoma bought the building for just one dollar and renovated the station into the lobby of a new federal courthouse.
These are amazing glass sculptures by a local artist named Dale Chihuly. He graduated from high school in Tacoma. Supported by his mother, after his brother George's death in a flight-training accident in Florida and his father's death of a heart attack, he enrolled at the College of the Puget Sound in 1959. A year later, he transferred to the UW of Seattle. In 1967, he received a Master of Science in sculpture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied under Harvey Littleton. In 1968 he went on to become the first American glassblower (but not the first American artist/designer) to work in the prestigious Venini Fabrica on the island of Murano. Chihuly lives and works in his 25,000 square foot studio, nicknamed "The Boathouse" for its former use, on Lake Union in Seattle. Since losing the vision in one of his eyes in a car accident in 1976, Chihuly (who wears an eyepatch) no longer has the depth perceotion necessary to handle the molten glass himself. Instead, he conceptualizes each project with paint and canvas and then employs a team of artists to do the work.
Me at the door to the school!
