Weekend Festivities

After spending Friday night and most of Saturday morning in fetal position from an out of nowhere stomach bug, I was up and ready to finally start the weekend! Chase asked to go to the library's Reading Rendezvous so I armed myself with my camera and away we went! I had heard of it, but nothing prepared me for what was ACTUALLY there! They had jugglers and games, food and lots of fun.

We met back up with Matt, Drew, and Austen and we all went to the Saturday Market. Ohhhhhh FUNNEL CAKES how I love thee!!! I couldn't help but laugh as we coughed up the powdered sugar and saw it blow into the air...it was worth every bite! As we walked up and down the aisles we saw jams and jellies, jerky and wooden carvings, shirts that touted Alaska's size compared to Texas...(we are a proud lot are we not), and of course the FOOD ROW! I swear I could live right there in that row. Stuffed bananas, Korean food, Mexican food, pizza, burgers, but the neatest one was a small booth operated by a very polite Russian family. I never have heard of Piroshki before but one look at the old woman shaping the dough behind the counter convinced me that it had to be good.

The dough was out of this world....buttery and crisp, yet sweet and soft on the inside, filled with meat and cheese. Worth all 3,000 calories HA! We left the market and decided to toodle around the Ship Creek area for a bit. It was a nice day for pictures but darn if the sun wasn't beating right down into the camera! I'm sure I will learn all about that soon, but as for that day....I did my best.



For whatever reason, the old train tracks caught my interest and I had my kids wondering..."Why is mom laying on the ground by the tracks?"

In the middle of all of this fun, when we picked up Austen from Jiu Jitsu...I looked out my car window and saw our vehicles reflection in a Harley Davidson tire....yes the photog in me said PICTURE PLEASE!

We had a full day on Saturday and capped off the day with a trip to a local restaurant called Ginger....Not sure I ever want to go anywhere else again. This place was a ten all the way. We had ahi tuna towers and seared tuna over wasabi and micro greens, oyster shooters with a spicy tomato water and these killer espresso drinks that were like a dessert in a cup. The people working there invited me and my camera to come back and take as many pictures as I want....WOO HOOOO! I will post them soon as I'm sure we'll be going back. They had a Sunday brunch menu that was out of this world!