Museum continued

The other reason to visit the museum was that Dale Chihuly, the famous glass artist, had a permanent exhibit there. And since I am a huge fan of his work it was a stop on my list.
The exhibit was AMAZING!!! Better than the Bellagio ceiling in Las Vegas.
The centerpiece of the exhibit was the 43' tower of glass that starred in the atrium. The ramps for the other floors went around this piece. It was amazing, but a bit dusty, but that still didn't take away from this wonder.
At the base was a floating ceiling where his pieces were suspended... almost like a coral reef on the ocean floor. There was a viewing area below that had a round lounge seat that rotated so you could get a 360° view of the ceiling.
Here are a few of the 100 or so I took :)

The for the kids they had hands on pieces to play with... hard plastic not glass, that they could make their own sculpture. Hayden really liked playing here. It didn't hurt that he remembered we stopped at a glass gallery when we were in VA and saw the man demonstrating how these are made there.
defiantly my favorite part :D