Sleeping in Seattle

So I took a friend up on her offer to visit Seattle. Yeah, like I haven't done enough traveling recently. She is planning on selling her house and wanted some help getting started on fluffing the place up a bit. I get to sleep in the guest room, eat her fabulous breakfasts and enjoy Seattle. It was impulsive but what the hell. The funniest part was that her house looked WAY better than mine (see photo above) so the whole time she was saying how it could look better I kept thinking about what a big turd my place is. Sorry, how much "deferred maintenance" there is to do.


Between painting the porch and repairing the back deck, we managed to get an amazing burger and beer at King's Hardware and some tasty small plates and cocktails at Sambar. King's is one of those new old places. It was obvious that it was some old dive that had been fluffed up to look, well, amazing. They had walls covered with cool old wallpaper, deer heads and vintage signs for beer. The best part is that they serve a great burger. You know the kind your get at a good summer BBQ with all the crispy bits around the edges. Yummy. I got the three pack of sliders with a tasty order of hand cut fries and a cold Maritime Pacific Pilsner (see photo below of Suzanne and her Dirty Sanchez impression).

Next up was Sambar. A quaint little bar tucked in the back of the quaint little restaurant Le Gourmond. Great atmosphere and tasty drinks. We ended up getting the frites and something else that was great but that I was too smashed to remember. Suzanne had the Vesper martini (like from the new Bond movie) and I drank some of their French reds.

Lastly we headed over to the new to Seattle Olympic Sculpture Park I like this particular shot as the vanishing point and angles of the lawn and edging disappeared behind the metal tree. Also, the blue of the sky that day really added to the green red of the grass. I took some great photos but go here if you want to see a great blog of it as it was being built.