Seattle Blog 2…

Too much effort to go day by day of the trip and not really ecstatically pleasing for readers, so I’m just going to do bits.



The Seattle library was huge!!!



The library consisted of several floors the elevator listed 10 if I remember correctly. My Mom being a librarian was very interested in the library, we actually ended up going into a couple during the trip. The architecture is what interested me the most. Enjoy these photos. They are straight out of the camera and not great, but photos. If you go to Seattle, I recommend a trip to the library. You can get a 1 hour free visitors internet pass, if you like.

Outside view of the East side of the library. The picture really does not do the architecture justice-it's a must see in person.

Although a few blocks away, you can see the bay from the library.

The library has it's own cafe. I must have had low blood sugar and needed a snack because this photo is crazy blurry. Sadly the cafe was closed by the time I made it back to the 3rd floor to take the picture.

A bird's eye view from one of the upper levels looking down at the teenager section--they have their very own section, we didn't have that when I was a kid. (Wow, I am getting old using phrases like this.)

Look at the outside book return--there is a conveyor belt that carries the books back into the library, I'm not sure if the picture is too small to see it or not. The reserved/holds section of this library was about the size of the upper level of my Grandview library, insane.

This is just part of the bibliography section--can you image trying to reshelve all those books. Again, just one part of this section. There were basically 5 floors of nothing but non-fiction books.

There were many, many stairs, or the elevator if you can figure out how to get back to it. It took us a moment.

And you thought we were in the Seattle Library not a disco-tech. Break it down Mom! This is actually the 4th floor of the library, the meeting room floor, and yes the entire floor is red-very RED! This photo is with flash one.

This one is with the flash off, not as bright, but still very, very RED!

Go visit your local library, speaking of which, I have books coming due, I better make it to my Grandview library-although, no red floors there, as far as I know.