23 July 2017 Seattle, Washington

and by "it's not going well" I mean my ability to keep to a blog schedule and post something every day. Obviously I missed yesterday and so I'm writing yesterday's post today, just to keep myself honest. Here's the basic update:

We walked to the far away (3 miles) bus stop and then took the bus to Whole Foods, Uwajimaya, and Total Wine. We wanted coffee from Whole Foods, Thai basil, spicy chili sauce, Thai chilis, and mirin from Uwajimaya, and to check the inventory of Gewürztraminer from Alto Adige/Sudtirol (none of that Alsace crap, you guys) at Total Wine.

We were successful at Whole Foods with the coffee. We also got to use their grinder to make the whole beans into espresso style ground coffee, so that was awesome. The lady at the checkout took a big inhale of it and said "this is the best coffee… don't drink it, just smell it."

Then we ate lunch outside at the WF tables (we figured that we just spent $12 on coffee, so it was OK to make sandwiches with the stuff we bought earlier at The Met).

At Uwajimaya, we found everything except Thai basil, which was a little shocking, quite frankly. It's always been there, maybe we just missed it? I don't know. No, we didn't ask. We are shy like that and independent. We found the other stuff though.

At Total Wine we found nothing. They have no Gewürztraminer from Alto Adige/Sudtirol, which isn't exactly a surprise, but it is a disappointment. I should probably write a letter. Or maybe just go to Rain City Wines in Bothell, which is an awesome little small business run by a cantankerous guy called Santo. It's pretty awesome and he will probably have something and could definitely get something if he doesn't have it. So I think that will be the plan. We did browse the beer selection at TW and it was pretty good. Also you can buy single bottles (the small ones), which is nice. So I got this really good red ale called "My Bloody Valentine Ale" or something. It was really good.

We walked back to the bus stop and of course were just a little too slow and missed the first bus, so we waited for a while for the next one. We thought about walking, but I said "street blah blah blah doesn't have footpaths, so we can't walk back." So we waited. Then the bus showed up and we were driving down street blah blah blah and I was looking out the window at all the new footpaths they had installed. Which explains what they were doing with all the construction that was happening even before we left the country. Good to know. We got off the bus and walked back to the apartment, then went grocery shopping for the rest of dinner and stuff. Later we picked up our package from the Amazon locker (love those!!). Then we watched a few shows (we have a lot to catch up on) and went to bed early.

Here's the low down on food and activity for yesterday.

Food

Breakfast

Same ole same ole… oatmeal, eggs, cheddar cheese. Coffee with milk. Melon. Calories: 440

Lunch

Ham sandwich on a cibatta roll. Calories: 350

Dinner

For dinner, I made a yummy dish from Skinnytaste again. It was chicken yakitori with stir fry veggies. Calories: 529

Snack

Popcorn. My Bloody Valentine Amber Ale. Citradelic IPA. Calories: 641

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