fannie & millie .: handcrafted goodness

It was a great weekend for a road trip - no rain!  I took the umbrella but didn’t need it at all. Yippee!  The weather was beautiful and we had a great time.  See if you can guess where we went…

Ha, ha, I know, that’s a pretty good clue; isn’t it?  We stayed at a really artsy hotel, here’s a photo of the mural that was on our room door:

Every floor had photos (each floor a different artist) covering all of the doors.  The multiple huge photos in the dark space combined with the low ceilings, striped carpet and heavy-scaled woodwork to make us feel like Alice In Wonderland.  I loved it!  The hotel has 350 original works from both emerging and established Seattle artists.  Brianna liked the “spiritual menu” in our room and ordered a Torah within the first 15 minutes of our arrival.  Check out the photo below! We also went to late happy hour (10 pm - 1 am; gotta love that!) at Red Fin, the restaurant at the hotel.  My martini was perfect and the edamame, sushi and french fries (!) with togarashi sure were good but I was puffed up like a blowfish when I woke up on Sunday.

We visited Pike Market, rode the Monorail, did lots of shopping (of course) and lots of eating (I’ll get back to that another time…) but, for me, the highlights of this trip were the Rem Koolhaas-designed Seattle Central Library and the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park.  Both places are free to visit and absolutely worth seeing!    

I hope you had a great weekend, too!!!