Details: A sunny day spent in Bellevue Community Park. It’s an urban oasis, just a block from the huge Bellevue Square Mall, and surrounded by high rise condos and office buildings.
Photo credit: personal collection
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If you’re driving around Seattle area this weekend, make sure to exercise good judgment if you’ve been imbibing.
The Seattle Police Department, Washington State Patrol, and police departments in neighborhood cities, have all added extra officers to the duty roster this weekend in anticipation of St. Patrick Day festivities. They want you to have fun, and lots of it, but they don’t want you endangering anyone else while you’re doing it.
Don’t rely on the luck of the Irish! Use good judgment and select a designated driver, get a hotel, take a cab, or walk, but don’t drink and drive.
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Details: There are several ways to get from Seattle to Bellevue and the East Side (of Lake Washington).
You can drive around Lake Washington to the north through Bothell. You can drive around to the south through Renton. Or, you can take on the floating bridges (I-90 or 520) and drive directly across.
Photo credit: flickr
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Travel + Leisure Magazine has one again named their top 500 hotels (December edition), and the Seattle area can boast five hotels on the list.
Alexis Hotel (downtown), scoring 81.38 (out of 100)
Bellevue Club Hotel (Bellevue), scoring 85.20
Fairmont Olympic Hotel (downtown), scoring 82.19
Inn at the Market (downtown), scoring 85.77
Salish Lodge & Spa (Snoqualmie), scoring 82.41
All fine hotels, and, no surprise here, a little on the spendy side. Still, a great option for a special occasion, if you’re on an expense account, or if price is no issue.
The 18th annual ecumenical concert of sacred music by Duke Ellington, featuring the award-winning Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra will be presented Saturday, December 30th at the First Presbyterian Church of Bellevue.
Duke Ellington (1899-1974) was one of the great musicians to emerge out of America’s jazz scene, earning a reputation as a pianist, composer, and bandleader. In 1965 he performed his first Concert of Sacred Music in an attempt to merge jazz with Christian liturgy. Calling them the “most important thing I’ve done,” Ellington did two additional sacred music concerts in 1968 and 1973.
The SRJO performance features guest singers Dee Daniels and James Caddell, …read more
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Sometimes when you’re traveling, you just don’t feel like going out. Maybe you want to curl up in your room with a good book, watch a movie on television, or just want to spend some quality time on the phone with people back home.
When I have days like that, I will head to a nearby wine shop, pick up a bottle of red wine, grab a sandwich from a local deli, and settle into my hotel room for the evening. Better still, if you’re traveling with friends and can turn it into an evening of relaxed conversation.
Vino 100, located near …read more
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The relationship between a child and a doll is one that can only be understood by experiencing it, but once experienced, it is never forgotten.
When I was growing up, I collected Barbie’s. Well, I didn’t really “collect” them; I just had lots of them, and played with them. I’d get together with other girls in the neighborhood, and in ignorant bliss to the politcal incorrectedness of dolls, we’d stage all kinds of great adventures.
So, when I first heard about the Rosalie Whyel Museum of Doll Art, I wanted to see if a visit would rekindle those fond memories of my childhood.
The Museum …read more
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