Summer '07, Trip #03

We're in Seattle this morning - woo hoo! Note: not woo hoo like in the 'Sims' game lol.

Emily, the king's god-daughter is graduating from high school and we're here to celebrate this occasion with the rest of the Shultz family.

We arrived yesterday morning and our friend Julie was so sweet to pick us up at the airport. Her aunt, Hisako, is also in town from Tokyo visiting, so we all, together with Yoshi, had our usual first-meal-after-we-arrive-in-Seattle at Shultzy's. As usual, the meal was excellent and I ate WAY too much. Those fries... it's just a sin to leave any left in the basket. Hmmm... fries from Shultzy's.

After lunch we dropped the husband at the hotel and us three ladies went off on a shopping spree at one of Chealsea premium outlets in Marysville, Washington - about 45 minutes outside downtown Seattle. We had a ball there! ...or at least I did. At one store, Hisako bought tweleve, yes, 12(!) bags. I know a professional when I see one at work. Pretty impressive :)

Dinner last night was at a little family-owned izakaya in the International District called Tsukushinbo. Good food, good drinks - I had my first ooling tea with shochu :) - and great company. Both the king and I love the cozy ambience. We will certainly be back. We apparently had been here before on one of our crazy drinking sprees to sing karaoke one late night last year; but the memory is hazy on that encounter :) We enjoyed every thing we got and I'm salivating now just thinking of the two pieces of saba (mackeral) I had. At one point, the entire restaurant, with the exception of the king, Julie and I, ran out of the restaurant for a UFO experiance lol! No kiddin'! They few men, Hisako and the owner/sushi chef were still discussing the topic when we were leaving more than 30 mins later lol. His daughter convinced us it was merely a few parachutes from a distance lol. It was quite funny to see a bunch of older people just gushing at their unidentified foreign object sighting hahahha!

For a change, we called it an early night. It was close to midnight our time back home and we were a little beat from the flight and the day's excitement :)

It's a little past 5am right now and I've been up for more than an hour. No laundry to do, no kitchen to clean - guess who's a happy camper?! It's yet another day with full of excitement. We already have lunch set up with Julie at Salumi - it's owned by celebrity chef's father, Mario Batali, Armandino Batali. Watch out of the review later.