Day 3: Seattle

Day 3: Seattle

QOTD

Seattle, I don’t know why

You stand under the clouds expecting to stay dry

Can’t you see the day you’ll ever win

That battle is the day they’ll take the rain out of Seattle

Weather: Same-same, cool in morning, then….different: it rains pretty much from 3 until 7.

Seward Park

Chloe the dog

More of Seward Park

After Grape Nuts and fruit, we took a walk with S&Chloe in Seward Park. It is spring, and some things are on the cusp of blooming and others are past their peak.

SAM entrance

THB and DB head off for some art: Seattle Art Museum and galleries, with lunch at the restaurant in SAM, Taste. Lunch of pasta with green pesto for THB, burger for DB, one arnie, $42. SAM has a show of late work by Joan Miro, DB likes it and THB thinks it looks like old-man work: too basic.

The losers in Super Bowl loan a piece to winners

THB is glad 9ers fans didn't have to put up with this piece of crap

We tour the local galleries and stop in at one, James Harris Gallery, where we have a relationship with Jim: the last time we were in Seattle and trying to arrange a meet-up with one of his artists, Akio Takamori, he and DB are exchanging phone calls and e-mails until one morning we get on the light rail and Jim is on the same car; arrangements made. This time, we arrange a meet-up in E-ville as Jim will be in SF and San Jose next week. Oh, and we buy one of the Akio pieces that Jim is re-selling from a bunch that one collector purchased in 1999. Nothing like serendipity.

What floor are we really on?

E&J give THB a nifty bread bag

London Plane plain bread bag

After rescuing our car from one of those in-between floors, we get back to S&C’s to do a bit of rest-up, then THB drops DB off for a gyrotonics class (THB things this is something where they teach you to either how to make gyro’s underwater or make some specialty drinks with unflavored bubbly water, all while wearing workout clothes) and hangs out until it is time to meet S&C at Joule, a Korean-meets-Northwest share plates.

We share: smoked tofu with honshimeji; wild rice with dates and smoked peanuts; black rice risotto with salted cod; sesame noodles with winter greens and shingiku; Chinese broccoli with walnut pesto; kale rabe with black bean sauce; roasted cauliflower and bonito with smoky yogurt; maitake mushroom with pine nut gremolata; halibut with red curry and pickled apples; two big bottles of beer; one vodka gimlet; tonic (not gyro?) with bitters, $95/couple. It is a lot of excellent food, we can’t finish everything and there’s no room for dessert.

The angels want to wear my new shoes

One more overlap, Bob again