Just wanted to share my lovely, lovely weekend.
Friday: Dinner at a local pub with Andy, then just sitting, beer drinking, knitting, and having interesting conversation while playing with the first Portuguese Water Dog I’ve ever met.
Saturday: A long walk to breakfast at the local gas-station-turned-greasy-spoon. A long walk home, clean the house, put in a few productive hours at work, then cruised to Ballard for a lovely evening stroll. Every restaurant we came across was a candidate for dinner, but when we stumbled upon Madame K’s, there was no question where we’d be eating. It was your basic gold rush brothel turned pizza joint. The food was amazing, the service was hot and the pizza was friendly. Plus, they put us in the window, so we got to watch the yuppies and hipsters stroll by.
Sunday: Rode our bikes to the Paramount theater (really good down hill, followed by really good up hill, followed by another really good down hill) for the matinee performance of Young Frankenstein. That’s right, friends, our favorite version of Puttin’ on the Ritz right there, live on stage. We were so excited to get to see the BROADWAY cast, just before the show heads to NYC. Awesome. Then, of course, there was a coffee shop and a nice ride home (really good up hill, then big scary down hill, and really good up hill again). For dinner, Matt got creative with the fresh wild-caught salmon we picked up at the farmer’s market and we ate a pound of steamed green beans. Mmmm. I actually had so many free calories (yes, I’m counting) at the end of the day, that I got to have a bunch of Oreos, sans frosting.
So, as you can see, a good weekend for me is all about where I go and what I eat once I’m there. Mmm, life is good.
Yay! I need to write up our weekend, which involved lots of sun, watching the ponies run, and a whole day on a sailboat. (It would have been even better with some fraction of the exercise you got!)