Category Archives: Smith Tower

Claudette & Susan do Seattle

Claudette and Susan arrived in Seattle with a purpose.They wanted to visit the Sea Otters. Simone and Claudette watching the Skates and Sturgeons in the underwater dome. One of the fun things you can do at EMP is create a … Continue reading

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Circumnavigating 100 feet from home court

Pausing to enjoy the adventure of life in the Pioneer Square neighborhood. Simone and Naomi love the rush of “urbanity and motormania” that hits you as you step out the giant doors of our building. Simone has her bull and … Continue reading

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Geocaching or There was Shakespeare at the Troll

Have you done any geocaching?  Last week at a wonderful birthday party for Simone’s classmate Meredith, we geo-cached at Richmond Beach and discovered an artillery box full of books. Smitten with the adventure, we decided to create a pop-up small book to … Continue reading

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How we ended up in the Smith Tower lighthouse?

One beautiful Seattle day, I looked up and was hypnotized by the pointy triangle on top of the Smith Tower.  I contacted the Samis Foundation (owners) about taking a look at the upper floors of their massive inventory of downtown … Continue reading

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Chinese Carving on the Bedroom door

Naomi asked to make a post about these.  She looks at them every day and wants to share them.  These are scenes from the door to the girl’s bedroom.  The story we often hear told is that these Chinese artworks … Continue reading

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Daily Rituals or Off to School

In the morning, the girls pack their backpacks with school stuff (lunches, sweaters, sneakers) and after-school stuff (leotards, swim suits, snacks) and then head downstairs to say good morning to Kumar, Hamilton and/or Nelson running the building elevators and Michelle, … Continue reading

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Dinner with the Strains across the Square

Our neighbors, the Strains, live across Pioneer Square from us. We can wave or flashlight morse code from our windows. Annie Strain has a great blog about life in Pioneer Square. Jackson Strain is the same age as Naomi. They … Continue reading

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Santa stopped by the tower a week early

The presents have been opened and the girls have left the scene for a few moments to pack up some toys for our afternoon plane ride to San Francisco where we will join in a second wave of Holiday festivities.

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Legislation Trumps Jurisprudence “Deciphering the Siberian Wolf Code”

On Saturday morning we headed North to Simone’s ski class at Snoqualmie. En route Simone asked me to turn on the radio. So I did and “Stop in the Name of Love” by Diana Ross came on. Simone said, “That … Continue reading

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Double-wide jaunt through urban landscape

We left the house in the double wide stroller. Simone was working in her easy erase writing book sent from Grandma Patt. Simone was also in charge of documenting this particular afternoon romp with her camera. She pointed out that … Continue reading

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A Citizen of the United States!

After five long years of rigamarole. Santino Luan becomes a Citizen. What a Day! From left to right, Petra (5 months pregnant), Santino and Meseret. Santino started life as a Dinka tribe cattle herder, fled war, wandered over 1,000 miles … Continue reading

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