Splendid Sunday

I love sleeping in until 930 on Sundays. It doesn't always happen on Saturdays, too used to getting up early but by Sunday my body is more acclimated to a long sleep into the later hours of the morning. Nice.

Today we moseyed around the house until we decided to use our Groupon at a local Creperie. For those of you unfamiliar with the term "Groupon" you need to look this up. There are daily deals for anything from pole dancing to kayaking to food for cheap... or at least cheaper. And these are in multiple cities not just Seattle. Anywho Elias and I typically get the food ones since we love the gracious gift of gluttony.

So back to the Crepe shop. It was a quaint place called Anita's Crepe Shop located on the edge of a funky neighborhood called Fremont. There was a little bit of a wait so we took off to explore the streets of a local residential area. The houses here remind me somewhat of the houses in downtown Saint Paul. There is a lot of craftsmen style and a lot of them are small, located on small lots and have bounds of flowers, vegetables, plants and trees growing from every imaginable spot of land. We even saw some chickens happily pecking at the ground without any limits to where they could wander (no fences!), we're talking about the real deal here people: free range, fat, happy chickens. After contemplating the idea of one day owning chickens myself I decided I would throw my veg ways out the door and eat meat but then after more contemplation, no... I would eat all of their eggs and keep the animal as long as it lived.

We eventually made our way back to the crepe shop where we indulged in a Mimosa, Bloody Mary and two deliciously prepared crepes. Mine was a salty farmer's cheese, spinach and an easy over egg all wrapped up in a warm wheat crepe served with a mixed greens salad topped with great northern beans and a balsamic reduction. Elias had a raspberry crepe with sausage (he has to get his meat fix when he can) on the side and some over medium eggs. It was great eats. Oh so the funny part is that we went to the wrong crepe shop for the Groupon we had. So we were trying to spend enough money to make our deal worthwhile and it turned out we had to pay full price. bah.

Afterwards we took off to the overly crowded Ballard farmers market where we managed to grab up the last bits of produce and some way too dense bread. It made for a good late lunch though. Elias had never had collard greens so it was fun to introduce him to something new.

Oh... dudes... I have to tell you all about the deliciousness of the last two nights though. Friday night we went to Alki Beach which is in the West Seattle neighborhood. It is across the water from downtown Seattle and has spectacular views of the city and the water. Amazing. It was quite romantic, made me feel like I was on a vacation for just a night. There were groups of young troublemakers on the beach standing around fire pits, reminded me of high school when we would have bonfires at Leine's house. Last night we went to this amazing German pub with all kinds of legit German beers. People this place was great. They had spatzle that tasted like mac n' cheese and weinerschnitzle served with pickled red cabbage. Oh you all need to come and visit me so I can take you on an adventure through the food finds we have located so far. Everyone I meet I ask: where is the best food? What is your favorite thing on the menu? How long have you lived here? :) haha... true story.

Well per the request of Kristen, I will post some pics of our place:

This is our bathroom. We have since removed the brown rug and replaced it with a wooden rug, cool. We also got some decorative towels and are trying to hang some shelves but are having some difficulties with the screws. Target screws are cheap!

This is down the hall from the bathroom. We found this one-of-a-kind painting on Craiglist. Well, actually we found our dresser there and they said they had to get rid of everything in their house so I asked about the painting and I took it.

Part of our library of books. Most of which we have not read. :)
UPDATE: Elias would like me to retract the above statement and replace it with: Part of our library of books. All of which have been read by him.

 My beautiful pantry. I mean this thing goes out to the left and to the right from what you can see. It is huge which makes it nice for cooking. Also check out our wonderful wine collection.

 Our living room.  We now have a big cross over our window to pay homage to Elias' Mexican heritage. ;)

 The view from our living room window out on the street. If you squint you can see Lake Union to the left of the white building toward the background. Yes, we have a coveted view from our humble abode.

 Me cooking as usual. Our kitchen is really pretty big which is AWESOME!! We have converted what should be our dining space into our office but there is a dining room table behind Elias that is not posted in any of these pics.

 Yes that is the space needle from our window. It really does look farther away in this picture than it is. Oh also, our cars are in this picture. The red truck is Rosalinda (Elias') and the silver corolla is Sammy Sveto (mine).

 Taking a walk to the hardware store.

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