in case some of you didn't know, i like to watch certain travel/food/cooking shows. not many, but a few in particular. about a week or two before i left, there was one about seattle. i recorded it but didn't have a chance to watch it before i left. thankfully alex watched it and got some great ideas for things for us to do.
we started out with coffee at cafe ladro just up the street from the hotel. it wasn't so much the coffee that i enjoyed as it was just hanging out with alex, each of us reading our books.
after that we headed to the agua verde cafe and paddle club (http://www.aguaverde.com/) near the university of washington. we started off with a one and one-half hour kayak trip around lake washington. there was a wait for two person kayaks, so we each got our own. we saw lots of ducks and some turtles and herons. even though alex used to row (crew) in college, i was still impressed with her kayaking skills, which she had never done before. after a good workout on the water, we had some really good fish tacos at the cafe.
we were still trying to find out a nice place for dinner to celebrate our twelve year wedding anniversary (next weekend, september 3rd). we were checking out lots of places, but they were either way too expensive or too touristy. luckily, one of the hotel employees recommended a place right around the corner, marjorie (http://www.trenchtownrocks.com/). it turned out to be an excellent dinner.
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two editorial comments (how again is this different than other days?)
1. thinking that being closer to a coast meant less expensive fish markets, pedro and i were blown away by $40 for a tuna steak. c'mon seattle ... you don't even have to ship these fishies. i can get my seared tuna in chicago (from the east coast markets) for $25.
2. you were quite generous in your kayaking comments. since you were ahead of me, you probably didn't notice that i almost had to paddle twice on the left to make up for my right stroke. i can't wait to do it in chitown. may hit the lake this weekend!
i have so many fond memories from this day. one of my favorites: upon hearing that pedro and i were celebrating 12 years of marriage, tim yelled across the patio, "hell, isn't it about time you two got divorced? enough already!" as usual, timmy keeps me laughing. also, kudos to timmy for finding the one bar that had stella.
aLex
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