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| The kitchen in our beach house |
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| The gorgeous water |
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| Baby Kurry snoozing on the beach |
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| The backyard and pool house |
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| Kolton protecting his eyes from the 'sun' |
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| Sunset |
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| Clouds rolling in |
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| Pompano Joe's |
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| We crashed a wedding... |
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| Sea critters |
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
KaBOOOOOM
So the beach is lovely, we think, we haven't seen it in a while. It has been a steady downpour/thunderstorm for the last two days. Before this all started I did get some decent pics of the beach though.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Life through the eyes of a three year old
So I let my little cousin play Angry Birds on my iPhone and nobody noticed for a while that he had moved on from that game. I think I ended up with about twenty pics on it that he took. Here's a quick sample.
Apparently Kolton had a lot of fun...
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| Not only did he take pics but he used my hipstamatic app for a while... |
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| As he would say, 'jenga!' |
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| Jenga still! |
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| Oh this is so much fun! |
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| Hey, it's Channer (aka Chandler) |
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| What are you doing Channer?? |
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| Hi Mommy! |
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| Hi Channer! |
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| HI!!! |
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| Hi Hi!!! |
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| OOooo! My feet! |
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| Toes! |
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| Oooh! Channer and feet! |
Monday, July 25, 2011
Bliss
There won't be any blogging on Seattle for a few days as I am currently at the beach! Ahhhhh.... white sand, turquoise water, and margaritas!
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| The first day at the beach |
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| Gorgeous sunset. |
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Random pics
I haven't done much this week beyond work and wander about with the beast so here are some random pics I've accumulated. Oh, and I'd like to reiterate just how dangerous it is to be able to actually walk to an awesome pizza place. Their takeout goes freakishly well w/ episodes of True Blood. Who knew?
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| My farmers' market. Have I already posted this? Whatever, here it is again if I have. Deal w/ it. |
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| They really like painting their streets around here... |
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| Hi! I'm here to destroy things! |
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| Draw bridges are much more awesome when you aren't on them. |
Monday, July 18, 2011
Gas Works
I took the beast for a long walk on Sunday because I'd ignored him for a large part of the day on Saturday in the interest of shopping, hair, and Harry Potter. To make it up to him and convince him that furry indoor tornadoes are in fact a terrible idea we went down to Gas Works Park. It was a drizzly day so we were some of the only people (yes the beast is a people, deal with it) out and about. Which was kind of nice because it meant that there weren't any fake stupid yappy football sized dogs trying to challenge him.
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| This was a lavender field in someone's yard. It stopped me in my tracks... |
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| Playing w/ a new setting on my pic app. |
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| At Gas Works park |
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| The views are really great. |
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| The actual old Gas Works. |
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| The view south toward downtown from the top of a hill... |
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| Neato...thing? Not sure what it was but it was pretty so I took a pic. |
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Yay for wine bars!
Went to Smash yesterday evening and it was surprisingly great! http://www.smashwine.com/ Laura and I ate ourselves sick (shocker) and I returned to my very super scientific study of local wines. What all did we eat you ask? Here's a list: cornbread (yes, really, so freaking good) w/ chive butter and honey, calamari (these were all small plates so there were only like 5 bites apiece), "'tater tots' (more like fried balls of mashed potatoes but you can't go wrong w/ fried potatoes), sliders, and a big honking bowl of truffled mac 'n cheese. Granted it was more like mac soup due to the lack of bechamel sauce. Which in turn led to a long and detailed discussion of the importance of said sauce. Anyway, on the wine front. I had a flight of rose' wines and then I had a glass of Gilbert Cellar's Allobroges Syrah (going to hunt down a few bottles of this soon) and a glass of Atticus Pinot Noir. Good stuff.
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| This is actually a pic from the beach back in May. But you know, for reference purposes... |
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Things that are Awesome...
Sitting in the sand and staring at mountains and water. That is all.
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| Sand... |
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| Mountains... |
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| Water. |
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| Thing that is awesome. |
Saturday, July 9, 2011
OMNOMNOMNOM
So while Jenni was here we did quite a bit of restaurant sampling. Which is always a good time. Or as she kept putting it, "this is the best place EVER". Here's a briefish rundown of the places where we ate while she was here.
Black Bottle. I'd been here a couple of times before and thought it might be a good starting off place. It had a pretty cool interior and the food is decent. We were able to sit outside and could see the water from our table too so that was pretty nice. http://blackbottleseattle.com/ We ordered the clams (yum), a flatbread pizza that had pesto, fontina, and tomatoes, and then the braised oxtail. That was awesome. My only complaint is that it didn't come with anything you could sop up the delicious juices with. Oh well.
We got up the next morning and grabbed some breakfast at Blue Star http://www.bluestarcafeandpub.com/ It was delicious but neither of us could finish our food because there was so much of it. I don't think we ate lunch that day...we actually spent most of it recovering from the night before. That afternoon we decided to walk around downtown some and did some happy hour hopping. We stopped at Sazerac at the Hotel Monaco first and had a delicious leek and artichoke dip w/ flatbread and some spiced nut mix. The drinks were good too! After that we walked across the street to the W but were pretty underwhelmed by the food there. Granted, the wasabi peas that they give you when you sit down are quite tasty. So onward and upward from there. We went to Quinn's http://www.quinnspubseattle.com/ where we ended up meeting up w/ L and a friend of hers. While we were there we had some excellent beers and the super delicious frites fonduta and the oxtail with gnocchi. OMG so good. We just headed home after that, we were still kind of hurting from the night before and decided to call it an early one.
The next day we got up pretty early and got ready to go hiking. However, before we headed to the mountains we had to get sustenance for along the way. We drove over to West Seattle to the most awesome bakery ever! http://www.bakerynouveau.com/welcome/ They have these amazing croissants (the baker won the international croissant competition in Paris) that are stuffed with ham and gruyere that we got for breakfast. But we also got some croissant sandwiches to bring up the mountain with us for lunch. I think Jenni also had a pistachio macaroon that she announced was 'AWESOME". So up the mountain we went.
After we finally made it back down we stopped for a recovery beer at the Issaquah Brewhouse. Beer post hike is always an excellent decision, fyi.
That night after everyone had gotten cleaned up and rested from the hike we headed back over to Capitol Hill for some pizza. http://www.viatribunali.net/index.php?page=capitol-hill This place is so good. And since it was the 4th of July weekend the crowds weren't insane. I had the Via Tribunali pizza, Jenni had one with nasty mushrooms on it (my words not hers), I forget which one L had but there was prosciutto on it. They were all fantastic and it's fun to play pass the slice so you can taste a bunch of different ones. Another plus about this place is that you can get the house wine by the carafe and it's pretty decent. After we finished stuffing ourselves with pizza we headed over to Knee High for some after dinner drinks (see Cups of Awesome).
The next day Jenni and I headed over to Tilth for brunch. http://www.tilthrestaurant.com/home Tilth is so cute, it's this little green house with a great little wooden front deck where you can sit and eat. So for brunch that day we had these amazing apricot scones, I ordered the Chicken and Biscuits (amazing herby biscuit with pulled chicken, gravy, and a fried egg on top) and Jenni had the Italian Sausage omelette, which is fairly self explanatory. Oh, and the cappuccinos and mimosas there are excellent too.
After we'd eaten till our eyes crossed we headed back to my place and got ready to go kayaking. My new addiction. I've already kind of covered this place (again, see Cups of Awesome) but we rented the kayaks from Agua Verde http://www.aguaverde.com/ and when we returned them we headed up to their deck for margaritas and guacamole. They were both really really good which is a nice surprise. I'm always a little afraid of margaritas when they're made outside of the southwest.
After our refreshment Jenni and I headed over to Cafe Bizarro for dinner. This place was nutso! But it was seriously entertaining. Plus the food was incredible. http://www.bizzarroitaliancafe.com/ We didn't order any apps but they brought out some really good bread before the meal and I ordered the Carbonara and it was fantastic. It wasn't heavy the way people like to make it when they add cream to it. This one was just chicken stock, egg, pancetta, house made linguini, and peas. Jenni ordered the margarita pasta and the bolognese sauce added to it. Hers was excellent too. AND this place lets you order house wine by the carafe too, score! We ate ourselves sick. Again. And called it a night after that.
The next day was the 4th and we started the day off right. Laura had told me about this awesome NY Jewish deli/diner that was over in Freemont so we decided to walk over and check it out. OMG this place was awesome. It's called Roxy's and the food selection boggled the mind. http://www.pastramisandwich.com/ Also, the drinks were dirt cheap with is always a good thing. I ordered the latkes (potato pancakes) and eggs and an onion bagel w/ cream cheese. And Jenni ordered an onion bagel w/ cream cheese, salmon, capers, etc. And we both had some really great champagne cocktails. She found one that's going to be one of my new Sunday Funday drinks; champagne and ginger ale. And I had one that was a mix of black currant juice and champagne. Both were outstanding. Needless to say this filled us up for a bit but that afternoon we headed over to the waterfront and got some dungeness crabs. We brought those bad boys back to my place and ate them w/ a bucket 'o butter and then headed down to watch the fireworks.
I think that was about it. All in all we did a pretty good job of eating our way through a lot of different places and somehow managed to survive it.
Black Bottle. I'd been here a couple of times before and thought it might be a good starting off place. It had a pretty cool interior and the food is decent. We were able to sit outside and could see the water from our table too so that was pretty nice. http://blackbottleseattle.com/ We ordered the clams (yum), a flatbread pizza that had pesto, fontina, and tomatoes, and then the braised oxtail. That was awesome. My only complaint is that it didn't come with anything you could sop up the delicious juices with. Oh well.
We got up the next morning and grabbed some breakfast at Blue Star http://www.bluestarcafeandpub.com/ It was delicious but neither of us could finish our food because there was so much of it. I don't think we ate lunch that day...we actually spent most of it recovering from the night before. That afternoon we decided to walk around downtown some and did some happy hour hopping. We stopped at Sazerac at the Hotel Monaco first and had a delicious leek and artichoke dip w/ flatbread and some spiced nut mix. The drinks were good too! After that we walked across the street to the W but were pretty underwhelmed by the food there. Granted, the wasabi peas that they give you when you sit down are quite tasty. So onward and upward from there. We went to Quinn's http://www.quinnspubseattle.com/ where we ended up meeting up w/ L and a friend of hers. While we were there we had some excellent beers and the super delicious frites fonduta and the oxtail with gnocchi. OMG so good. We just headed home after that, we were still kind of hurting from the night before and decided to call it an early one.
The next day we got up pretty early and got ready to go hiking. However, before we headed to the mountains we had to get sustenance for along the way. We drove over to West Seattle to the most awesome bakery ever! http://www.bakerynouveau.com/welcome/ They have these amazing croissants (the baker won the international croissant competition in Paris) that are stuffed with ham and gruyere that we got for breakfast. But we also got some croissant sandwiches to bring up the mountain with us for lunch. I think Jenni also had a pistachio macaroon that she announced was 'AWESOME". So up the mountain we went.
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| Amazing... |
After we finally made it back down we stopped for a recovery beer at the Issaquah Brewhouse. Beer post hike is always an excellent decision, fyi.
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| Happiness is a cold beer. |
That night after everyone had gotten cleaned up and rested from the hike we headed back over to Capitol Hill for some pizza. http://www.viatribunali.net/index.php?page=capitol-hill This place is so good. And since it was the 4th of July weekend the crowds weren't insane. I had the Via Tribunali pizza, Jenni had one with nasty mushrooms on it (my words not hers), I forget which one L had but there was prosciutto on it. They were all fantastic and it's fun to play pass the slice so you can taste a bunch of different ones. Another plus about this place is that you can get the house wine by the carafe and it's pretty decent. After we finished stuffing ourselves with pizza we headed over to Knee High for some after dinner drinks (see Cups of Awesome).
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| Cups of awesome |
The next day Jenni and I headed over to Tilth for brunch. http://www.tilthrestaurant.com/home Tilth is so cute, it's this little green house with a great little wooden front deck where you can sit and eat. So for brunch that day we had these amazing apricot scones, I ordered the Chicken and Biscuits (amazing herby biscuit with pulled chicken, gravy, and a fried egg on top) and Jenni had the Italian Sausage omelette, which is fairly self explanatory. Oh, and the cappuccinos and mimosas there are excellent too.
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| Where to go for a happy breakfast |
After we'd eaten till our eyes crossed we headed back to my place and got ready to go kayaking. My new addiction. I've already kind of covered this place (again, see Cups of Awesome) but we rented the kayaks from Agua Verde http://www.aguaverde.com/ and when we returned them we headed up to their deck for margaritas and guacamole. They were both really really good which is a nice surprise. I'm always a little afraid of margaritas when they're made outside of the southwest.
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| Mmmm...frosty beverage... |
After our refreshment Jenni and I headed over to Cafe Bizarro for dinner. This place was nutso! But it was seriously entertaining. Plus the food was incredible. http://www.bizzarroitaliancafe.com/ We didn't order any apps but they brought out some really good bread before the meal and I ordered the Carbonara and it was fantastic. It wasn't heavy the way people like to make it when they add cream to it. This one was just chicken stock, egg, pancetta, house made linguini, and peas. Jenni ordered the margarita pasta and the bolognese sauce added to it. Hers was excellent too. AND this place lets you order house wine by the carafe too, score! We ate ourselves sick. Again. And called it a night after that.
The next day was the 4th and we started the day off right. Laura had told me about this awesome NY Jewish deli/diner that was over in Freemont so we decided to walk over and check it out. OMG this place was awesome. It's called Roxy's and the food selection boggled the mind. http://www.pastramisandwich.com/ Also, the drinks were dirt cheap with is always a good thing. I ordered the latkes (potato pancakes) and eggs and an onion bagel w/ cream cheese. And Jenni ordered an onion bagel w/ cream cheese, salmon, capers, etc. And we both had some really great champagne cocktails. She found one that's going to be one of my new Sunday Funday drinks; champagne and ginger ale. And I had one that was a mix of black currant juice and champagne. Both were outstanding. Needless to say this filled us up for a bit but that afternoon we headed over to the waterfront and got some dungeness crabs. We brought those bad boys back to my place and ate them w/ a bucket 'o butter and then headed down to watch the fireworks.
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| BOOM! |
I think that was about it. All in all we did a pretty good job of eating our way through a lot of different places and somehow managed to survive it.
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