We spent the morning in the hotel room, as we had reserved a harbour cruise at 12:15pm, and that did not give us enough time to do anything else once we got through breakfast and the regular morning routine. We ate breakfast in our room, as we had fruit from yesterday and the breakfast room was packed full of people again. We then tried to put Evan down for a morning nap and gave Xander a morning quiet time before lunch, but I don't think either really worked. Once we finished lunch, we herded the kids out and made our way back to the monorail and took it downtown.
To get to the harbour, you have to go down a lot of steep roads, and even after that, you get to a point where you have to take stairs. I'm not certain how cars get down, but it must occur somewhere quite far away from the part of downtown where we were. We ended up carrying the kids and the strollers downstairs in order to get to the pier where our tour left from. We arrived about a half hour before the tour boarded, so we walked to the end of the pier and looked at the water for a bit.
The cruise was nice, except that neither kid really wanted to be there. They definitely did not want to be on the deck (too windy), and even when we sat inside, Evan kept getting upset and Xander kept disobeying. Xander got more excited once we arrived at the industrial section of the harbour, with all the container ships and cranes, while I ended up just ignoring Evan, as he would start screaming if I even made eye contact with him.
After the cruise, we took the monorail back to the park and went to the the Children's Museum here in Seattle. It was another hit with the kids and roughly similar to the last children's museum we went to. It had a grocery store, a pretend Taco Time fast food restaurant, a mountain area and an area with odd pipes and levers where you could put small plastic balls through the pipes - some had compressed air running through them.
Once we figured out where the balls went and how it worked, Xander had a lot of fun making them go from one side to the other, where they would fall among cymbals and other musical instruments in order to make noise. Once everyone was pretty hungry we left and started walking out of the park.
Before leaving, we stopped and watched a street performer do a short act - he was a juggler and rode a unicycle and he put on a fairly good show. Xander got right into clapping along with everyone else. When the act was over, we went for supper and then returned to the hotel room. We've decided to head home in the most direct route, which means going into Canada at Abbotsford and then taking the #1 to Calgary. I am very ready to just head home, as I am pretty much wiped out. Tomorrow should be mostly a travel day, but we will see how far we can go with Evan, as he hasn't been lasting very long in the car lately.
To get to the harbour, you have to go down a lot of steep roads, and even after that, you get to a point where you have to take stairs. I'm not certain how cars get down, but it must occur somewhere quite far away from the part of downtown where we were. We ended up carrying the kids and the strollers downstairs in order to get to the pier where our tour left from. We arrived about a half hour before the tour boarded, so we walked to the end of the pier and looked at the water for a bit.
The cruise was nice, except that neither kid really wanted to be there. They definitely did not want to be on the deck (too windy), and even when we sat inside, Evan kept getting upset and Xander kept disobeying. Xander got more excited once we arrived at the industrial section of the harbour, with all the container ships and cranes, while I ended up just ignoring Evan, as he would start screaming if I even made eye contact with him.
After the cruise, we took the monorail back to the park and went to the the Children's Museum here in Seattle. It was another hit with the kids and roughly similar to the last children's museum we went to. It had a grocery store, a pretend Taco Time fast food restaurant, a mountain area and an area with odd pipes and levers where you could put small plastic balls through the pipes - some had compressed air running through them. 
Once we figured out where the balls went and how it worked, Xander had a lot of fun making them go from one side to the other, where they would fall among cymbals and other musical instruments in order to make noise. Once everyone was pretty hungry we left and started walking out of the park.
Before leaving, we stopped and watched a street performer do a short act - he was a juggler and rode a unicycle and he put on a fairly good show. Xander got right into clapping along with everyone else. When the act was over, we went for supper and then returned to the hotel room. We've decided to head home in the most direct route, which means going into Canada at Abbotsford and then taking the #1 to Calgary. I am very ready to just head home, as I am pretty much wiped out. Tomorrow should be mostly a travel day, but we will see how far we can go with Evan, as he hasn't been lasting very long in the car lately.
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Today sounded a little better and the boys looked happy. Hope to see you soon. Love ya
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