Author: Caroline

… I don’t know! TP Tea in the ID is pretty darn good. My only quibble is the cup is so tall it’s hard to reach the boba at the bottom. First world problems. What’s your favorite place for bubble tea?

Olympic Illiad, Alexander Liberman, 1984, painted steel. 41 steel cylinders piled on top of each other, with 5 points on the grass for support.

Public sail is BACK at The Center for Wooden Boats! It’s a free sail, once a month, with volunteer skippers and crew. It was a beautiful day to be out on the water. The next public sail is July 30. Sign ups begin at 10 a.m. at the Wagner Education Center and you need to…

Seattle’s greatest gag gift shop turns 40 this year! Here are 10 things you didn’t know you needed at Archie McPhee…

A bit of Seattle quirkiness under the Aurora bridge.

A stop at the International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park to round out our Portland trip. Snacks for the road. Goodbye, Portland!

It’s been way too long. Nom nom!

The new orca special exhibit at OMSI includes three life-size orcas and it is STUNNING. (Psst, Pacific Science Center members get in free.) The Burke Museum also just opened an orca exhibit: the Burke’s is half of a small room, and OMSI’s is two floors of cavernous galleries. Go to Portland. We learned that the…

Take a break between meals at Terra Nova Adventure Play Environment. If anything, running around this nature-themed playground will help you work up an appetite. Terra Nova, a 12-minute drive west of Richmond’s central eating district, looks unlike any other playground you’ve been to. Features include a 115-foot long tandem zipline and a 30-foot-tall spiral slide.…

My first Seattle Mag byline! Link to the story here.