Clutter your Stomach….again!
We’re sitting on the Victoria Clipper on our way to Victoria, BC for the Royal Victoria Marathon. This has been quite a year for me….our oldest daughter got engaged to a wonderful guy on January 1, I quit a job I loved on May 18, opened a store I LOVE on August 3... and now, I am running my first marathon, at the age of 51! Ted and I arrived in Seattle on Thursday to beautiful blue skies and pleasant temps. Every time we visit Seattle, we have been blessed with beautiful weather, who says it rains here?!! We decided to fly into Seattle and then “cruise” to Victoria on the Victoria Clipper….for one thing, it was cheaper…but the real reason is that I figured on the trip back to Seattle, we had a better chance of walking around and stretching our (what are sure to be) very tired, stiff and sore legs, on Sunday evening!
Anyway, back to Seattle….we arrived mid-afternoon and after dropping our luggage off at the hotel, decided to walk to the Pike Place Market and the original Starbucks. If you have never been to Seattle, one place you must go to when you do go, is the Pike Place Market. It is a cacophony of sounds and smells….mostly of the fish hawkers selling their fish and pretending to throw them at unsuspecting passers-by! The fresh fish and Dungeness crabs are a sight to see and the smell is…well, you can imagine! Not only is there seafood, but there is wonderful fresh produce and I was dying for a big, juicy apple and some cheese to go with it. I bought a BIG apple ( and asked the nice young guy who sold it to me to please cut it, which he did) and then went across the street to Beecher’s Cheese shop for some of their delicious aged , semi-hard cow’s milk cheese..yum! Then we stopped at the original Starbucks and Ted got a latte and from there we proceeded to a small waterfront park to drink our coffee and savor the apple and cheese….yum, yum (again!). After enjoying our snack and the view of the harbor, we did a little bit of shopping ( ok, ok…since I’m the ultimate shopper, we did a lot of shopping with little buying!) and then finally it was time for dinner.
When I was traveling last week to Michigan, I picked up the airline magazine and read about a pizza restaurant in Seattle called Serious Pie (what a cute name!). How fortuitous since I was going to be in Seattle this weekend and a great pizza at a casual restaurant would be perfect.After shopping, we set out to find Serious Pie, which wasn’t too hard to do, it’s on Virginia just past 3rd St. It’s a small restaurant with a big line and there aren’t too many tables so you are eating with your neighbors…I call it community eating. I’m usually not a fan of this type of eating, but to be honest, it didn’t bother me at all, when you want to, you can really focus on your tablemate, be it a your husband, friend, and/or both! If you don’t really want to focus on the person you came to the restaurant with, you can easily eavesdrop on someone else’s conversation! The menu is small, which made it easy to select what type of pie we wanted to eat. Ted and I “played” a game, one at a time, we eliminated the “pies” we didn’t want ( Wild boar sausage, Yukon gold potatoes, egg) and settled on a wild chanterelle with truffle sauce pizza and salads for each of us. We picked just right…the salad was delicious and the pizza perfect and best of all, the company was the best!
Seattle is a lovely place to visit, there are many places to shop and “Clutter your World” and great places to eat and “Clutter your Stomach!”
And speaking of eating....we have some great dining/kitchen tables in Clutter right now...Have a look!
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