Today Ken and I were invited by Dale, Leslie and Jackson to their Holiday Gingerbread Party at the Chihuly Boathouse. The invitation encouraged us to bring kids or grandchildren, so we invited Ken’s son, Michael Hatch and wife Alicia, along with grandsons Jackson and Spencer to join us.
When we opened the door to enter the Boathouse, it was a mind-blowing sight. We were greeting with a riot of color and candy and children all sitting at the long log table decorating gingerbread houses. All the Chihuly elves (aka glassblowers??) had worked for a couple of weeks baking and putting together gingerbread houses for the party so they would be ready for decorating. There were little bowls of frosting and bowls of all kinds of candy everywhere and the children were having an amazing time decorating their houses and eating the candy simultaneously. Jackson, at 2-1/2 years of age, quite enjoyed putting candy on his house and then immediately pulling it off and eating it. You can see him with a decidedly sugar-glazed look to his eyes above and his mom, Alicia is still smiling.
Among the happy crowd, we saw lots of friends attending with assorted children and grandchildren including Dan & Nancy Evans, Sherry Raisbeck, Betty Tong, Kim Richter, Julie & Tom Skerrit, Angela Wu, Kelly Boal, Alexis Phelps and Billy O’Neill.
Dale Chihuly circulated throughout the party giving a bit of artistic advice on gingerbread house decoration when requested. Though every gingerbread house was a work of art, especially in the eyes of the pint-size artists, it was obvious to me that none of them were as alluring as Dale’s paintings and colorful chandeliers displayed throughout the Boathouse.
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