It's Spring Break and Michael's Birthday Week - a happy time in the Gossett home. We decided to come up to Seattle to play, eat, celebrate and explore. It's been a lovely 34 hours.
First stop in the Emerald City was lunch at Tom Douglas' Serious Pie. It is serious Pizza pie. Our Server Cassie was amazing and the food was wonderful.
Prior to checking into our Base Station at the Seattle Hyatt Place, we meandered over to The Yellow Leaf Cupcake Co. After agonizing over the day's selections, we each chose 2 for after Dinner. Surprisingly difficult to do on full tummies.
The afternoon activity was Experience Music Project. While we do appreciate Jimi Hendrix and his genius, I would not consider any of us Gossetts3 rabid fans. We are not Battlestar Galactica officianados. The guitars were very cool. We should have saved our $42 for another time.
To salvage our afternoon, we decided to take the trip up to the top of the Space Needle. Quinn decided weeks ago that she wanted to treat Michael to his ride for his Birthday gift. She took the $$ out of her ipod savings and rolled it up in a special card that she designed herself. We spent twice as much time up there, seeing what we could see and learning what we could learn, than we did at EMP. It was glorious.
Dinner at Wild Ginger was tasty and dissapointing, all at the same time. The food was quite good, but not extraordinary, and the service was "coy". Either our server was over-stationed or he just didn't really care about us. Don't need to go back.
Our late-night (and am post work-out!) cupcakes were delicious.
Today was spent exploring neighborhoods we've only had time to get lost and turned around in on previous trips. We drove around Queen Anne a bit, spent most of the day in Ballard - wasting a meal on a forgettable lunch at "whatever Coast Cafe" - stopped in at The Chef Shop (oh. my.) and then drove up in to Magnolia. So lovely.
Oh, did I mention it was a GORGEOUS day?
I would have to say that the highlight of the past 2 days has been tonight's dinner. Last Summer, I reconnected with a childhood friend on Facebook. Our parents were good friends when we were little and we spent a lot of time together as families (she had the best Barbies) Sadly, we lost track of each other in middle and high school.
"Rosie" joined us for dinner tonight at la Carta de Oaxaca. The food was delicious and the place was hopping on a Weds night. The line was getting longer outside and we were finding it hard to leave and say goodbye. They were very polite as they took away every soiled plate, utensil and salsa ramekin and wiped the table in front of us twice.
It was just delightful to lay eyes and arms on her and have the opportunity to just start to scratch the surface of sharing our stories with each other. She's gorgeous and vibrant and talented and creative and a survivor. I honestly can't wait to make up for the 38+ years! There is no photograph recording this momentous occassion and that makes me sad. Can we get a Do-over?
Tomorrow: we take Capitol Hill and Pike Place. Then Home.
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