On Saturday, November 10 we explored Seattle's Discovery Park. It's an old fort and military base that is mostly used now as a public park/nature center. First we visited the Daybreak Star Center run by the Indian Tribes of all National Foundation for their monthly art sale. We got to see a few totem poles, carved canoes, painted drums, button blankets, jewelry, leatherwork, etc. Then we stopped by the park's visitors center to explore their exhibits. As you can see from the pictures, the kids loved the puppet show area. Then we got a pass to go through the military area and out to the lighthouse and beach. Be sure to look carefully at picture #188 as it is a view of Mt. Rainer from the lighthouse beach at sunset. Then we had dinner at Fisherman's Terminal - fish and chips/salmon and chips/New Jersey Chowder. What is NJ Clam Chowdah you ask? I had never tried it but really liked it. It is the Manhattan and Boston Chowders combined. (Kinda like getting the "two in a bowl" soup at California Pizza Kitchen) Before this I had tried three other restaurants versions of "Northwest" Chowdah, which seems to me to be Boston Chowder with lots of Bacon. Yum! Maybe I'll top my Chowder escapades of 1999 when I was in Boston for 6 days and had 10 different kinds of chowder!
