July 9
We’ve tried to take advantage of the mostly-sunny weather the past couple of weeks. Usually this involves picking a park for the day, but sometimes we get a little more adventurous. A couple weeks ago, we met up with our friends and walked down to see the Waterfall Garden Park. The kids weren’t too interested – there was a pretty waterfall in the corner, but Bennett didn’t want a picture with it and there wasn’t much else for them to do. So we decided to venture over to the Klondike Gold Rush Museum – a free “national park extension” we had heard was neat, but we were a little skeptical about. We were partly just looking for a bathroom. The kids actually loved it – they got junior ranger booklets when we got there and loved the page with pictures of the artifacts to find & circle as we went through the museum. I actually had no idea why there was a Klondike Gold Rush Museum in Seattle, so I thought it was pretty interesting (mini history lesson: the people going up to strike it rich in the Klondike Gold Rush in Alaska usually stocked up on all their supplies and took a boat from Seattle as the first leg of their journey. This was a huge boost to the Seattle economy and some people came back after earning their fortunes).
the little store where you could see the supplies people bought for their trek 
exploring the area around Pioneer Square
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