[LORI MELENDY] What is happening?
The Seattle Center
all-staff picture, post-pandemic,
celebrating our 60th anniversary.
It's a silver anniversary,
just like the queen.
It's our silver jubilee.
[BELL RINGING]
But they'll respond to this, hopefully.
[JAMES HOLLINS] It's going to be good
because everybody's
been gone from COVID.
So everybody's back together now.
[LORI] Don't remote in today.
[INTERVIEWER] How many staff pictures
have you been to?
[LORI] It could be...
[JAMES] Four, I think.
[LORI] I don't remember.
[JAMES] But it has been two or three
because they don't happen that often.
It's been a while.
It's been a while
since we've had an all-staff photo.
[ROBERT NELLAMS] We haven't been able to do it
for a long time.
So this is a great opportunity
for us to just do some of the things
that we've always done.
Some of the things
that make us feel like
we're all together.
[LORI] I think this might be it.
[JAMES] It's still
going to be a small group, look like.
Everybody still working from home.
But we've got a few
stragglers coming
in, so it might be
a little bit bigger.
[CHELSEA RIDDICK-MOST] Like many organizations,
we've been out of the office
because of the pandemic.
[PHOTOGRAPHER] On the count of three
everybody up here.
[CHELSEA] So the 60th anniversary is
the first time in almost three years
that the staff has been able
to come back and work in person
with each other.
[PHOTOGRAPHER] Nobody's hiding?
[ROBERT] Just being able to see folks
get comfortable enough again
to take their mask off,
being close to each other.
That's a first.
[CHELSEA] For the staff
and the people that work here,
being able to do the business
of bringing community
and allowing them to to celebrate
and be back on the campus.
That's what is really exciting.
-It's nice to be around everybody.
-It's just so great to be back together again.