Category: The Seattle Times

Nothing in New York is cheap, but price per floor, the One World Observatory is the best bang for your skyscraper buck. Empire State Building: $77 for the 102nd floor One World Trade Center: $43 for the 102nd floor One Vanderbilt: $60 for the 93rd floor Top of the Rock: $40 for the 70th floor…

I’ll take any excuse to hop on the Bainbridge ferry just for that view, that light.

I could not decide what to get at Sabine Cafe, so just to be safe, I got them all! The pastries often sell out in the afternoon, so consider yourself warned. We tried the chocolate croissant, a twice-baked almond croissant and a plum danish with the prettiest chamomile blossoms on top. Sabine is designed to…

Now THIS is a Chinatown. Ice cream and food and shopping!

Times Square and 30 Rock, to the world’s greatest toy store. FAO Schwarz isn’t a regular store; there are people inside doing magic tricks and cool demos. It takes alllll your willpower to walk out without buying everything. Keep scrolling if you’re not into Harry Potter (COME ON NOW). We couldn’t go to NYC without…

A few more pictures from Lincoln Park. A day like today makes me thankful to live in the PNW. Cool and cloudy, tall trees and beautiful beaches.

Thomas Dambo Seattle troll #2! At Lincoln Park in West Seattle. Here’s a link to my story about the troll project for Seattle’s Child.

NYC day 1: The Public Library, Central Park and the Met. First time in the city since Before Kids, and I have missed it so much. Standing in sweaty strangers’ pits on the subway and all!

When Thomas Edison was 7, his teacher called him “addled” and kicked him out of school. So his mother homeschooled him. Today he might be labeled ADHD or autistic. And he became America’s most famous inventor. We spent a day at his West Orange lab complex, where Edison perfected his phonograph and developed a rechargeable…

We stopped in Rhode Island to see the famous Newport mansions. So much fun gawking at the lavishness of the Gilded Age!