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Delightful Saturday morning
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ironymaiden and I met over at Fisherman's Terminal to have brunch at Chinook's. We both love this restaurant but had never been there together. The dining room overlooks the working boats of Ballard and, yesterday, seredipitously, overlooked the sprawl of the Fishermen's Fall Festival. After a perfectly wonderful meal (I had the salmon cake and eggs, along with the restaurant's fabulous scones), we headed outside to stroll the festival.
The fair was clearly a family event, with lots of crafts for the kids (and adult-sized kids) to do, as well as seafood in abundance and maritime exhibits of all sorts. Miss Maiden and I made fish prints (you paint a rubber fish then press paper down on top of it to get a print) and spin art (::squee!::), and learned about fish (but not nearly effectively enough for me to remember the name of even a single fish we listened to the docents discuss, sadly). We didn't indulge in the food as we'd just eaten, but the turn we took around the festival was a lot of fun.
From there, we headed to the south end of downtown to visit Big John's PFI, a well-hidden Mecca for cooks and foodies in Seattle, where the rare, the foreign and the bargain are all in abundance. I thought ofhgross, deedop and shellyinseattle as I perused the aisles, thinking this was a place you all needed to know about. Miss Maiden came away with a haul of cheese and syrup and stuff; I came away with three bars of subtlely scented soaps at ridicously low prices. I suspect I'll be back there for holiday shopping later this year.
What a lovely morning we had, full of laughter and good feeling. I need more such mornings.
The rest of the day was very low key. I napped. I tidied up a bit. I watched the first half of "The Godfather," at which point my VCR decided to eat the tape. The machine is nearly ten years old; I'm trying to decide if it will be more cost effective to fix it or scrap it and buy a new one. It is, after all, my only way to watch the Ninth Doctor until and unless I get a region-free DVD player. ::sigh::
ironymaiden and I met over at Fisherman's Terminal to have brunch at Chinook's. We both love this restaurant but had never been there together. The dining room overlooks the working boats of Ballard and, yesterday, seredipitously, overlooked the sprawl of the Fishermen's Fall Festival. After a perfectly wonderful meal (I had the salmon cake and eggs, along with the restaurant's fabulous scones), we headed outside to stroll the festival.The fair was clearly a family event, with lots of crafts for the kids (and adult-sized kids) to do, as well as seafood in abundance and maritime exhibits of all sorts. Miss Maiden and I made fish prints (you paint a rubber fish then press paper down on top of it to get a print) and spin art (::squee!::), and learned about fish (but not nearly effectively enough for me to remember the name of even a single fish we listened to the docents discuss, sadly). We didn't indulge in the food as we'd just eaten, but the turn we took around the festival was a lot of fun.
From there, we headed to the south end of downtown to visit Big John's PFI, a well-hidden Mecca for cooks and foodies in Seattle, where the rare, the foreign and the bargain are all in abundance. I thought of
hgross, deedop and shellyinseattle as I perused the aisles, thinking this was a place you all needed to know about. Miss Maiden came away with a haul of cheese and syrup and stuff; I came away with three bars of subtlely scented soaps at ridicously low prices. I suspect I'll be back there for holiday shopping later this year.What a lovely morning we had, full of laughter and good feeling. I need more such mornings.
The rest of the day was very low key. I napped. I tidied up a bit. I watched the first half of "The Godfather," at which point my VCR decided to eat the tape. The machine is nearly ten years old; I'm trying to decide if it will be more cost effective to fix it or scrap it and buy a new one. It is, after all, my only way to watch the Ninth Doctor until and unless I get a region-free DVD player. ::sigh::