Vancouver BC - September 2007 Trip - Day 4...last day!
I blog to you from my Seattle home this evening. The last day of our 4-day weekend vacation is quickly wrapping up. I really do feel relaxed even after going through my work email and deleting all of the things I don't need to address. It was good that we got away and now without delaying any further, the rest of the story...
Last night we decided to dine in and went to the Pan Pacific's gourmet restaurant called The Five Sails. We didn't know what to expect as we have never dined there before -- there wasn't a lot of publicity about this place or its menu, but what the heck it sounded better than Italian Opera Buffet or room service options. We walked into The Five Sails promptly at 730pm and noticeably it was elegant. Again in the Vancouver nighttime-casual way though. We weren't super dressed up as some of the other guests but I looked around and saw some younger guys I'd say with their mom kind of thing dressed in athletic warm up suits (think adidas track suits not sweats). We started off with a complimentary plate of albacore tuna and a fresh tomato cream soup. Quite nice actually and after some custom rolls (one of which tasted like a pretzel) and some cocktails I had the smoked salmon appetizer and Chris had the foie gras. Again, delicious! The entrees we switched it up, I had duck and he had seafood. The dessert though -- fantastic. A rosemary mango sorbet dish and also a kiwi neopolitan. Overall a wonderful time and we agreed that we would eat there again albeit on the pricey side.
We slept in this morning, had some breakfast and packed up driving straight to North Delta to go to a Real Canadian Superstore. Why? Because I am at least fascinated with the different flavor (sorry, flavour) options that Canadians get to choose from such as in seasonings and chips. We bought some random items and of course I had to get another Double-Double before crossing back into the USA with our NEXUS cards (again go get a NEXUS card, trust me you will thank me later). Our drive home was pretty uneventful and to me it seemed to fly by until we got to Everett. Ok, WDOT you need to fix this problem. Every time I drive south on I5 and I hit Everett (the stretch right after the big lot of boats, y'all know what I mean right after you leave Marysville) and we slow down to a crawl for what seems like no good reason. I realize the reason is because people are merging to avoid exiting and people who are merging onto I5 want to avoid immediately exiting...but COME ON... it is sad. Fix it, please. Don't use the light rail excuse, don't use the there isn't enough money so let's slap on another gas tax excuse -- just fix it already. It got me thinking -- Portland OR has a great mass transit system, Vancouver BC seems to be implementing a great one...and Seattle WA...yeah, we'll just leave it at that.
We stopped in Mill Creek to shop at one of our favorite stores, Central Market. After loading up on groceries for the next week or so we finally came home, unpacked, ate dinner, I got to re-synch my iTouch and now I am blogging. Some time in between all that, laundry got done, emails got checked (read at least, not replied to), and we have succumb to turning on the heat in our house.
Again, although it was only 4 days and what seems ridiculous to blog about was a great 4 day mini vacation. I am SO glad that we took it. Tomorrow I hope that I won't have to stay too late to catch up. Here's to trips! Yay!
Last night we decided to dine in and went to the Pan Pacific's gourmet restaurant called The Five Sails. We didn't know what to expect as we have never dined there before -- there wasn't a lot of publicity about this place or its menu, but what the heck it sounded better than Italian Opera Buffet or room service options. We walked into The Five Sails promptly at 730pm and noticeably it was elegant. Again in the Vancouver nighttime-casual way though. We weren't super dressed up as some of the other guests but I looked around and saw some younger guys I'd say with their mom kind of thing dressed in athletic warm up suits (think adidas track suits not sweats). We started off with a complimentary plate of albacore tuna and a fresh tomato cream soup. Quite nice actually and after some custom rolls (one of which tasted like a pretzel) and some cocktails I had the smoked salmon appetizer and Chris had the foie gras. Again, delicious! The entrees we switched it up, I had duck and he had seafood. The dessert though -- fantastic. A rosemary mango sorbet dish and also a kiwi neopolitan. Overall a wonderful time and we agreed that we would eat there again albeit on the pricey side.
We slept in this morning, had some breakfast and packed up driving straight to North Delta to go to a Real Canadian Superstore. Why? Because I am at least fascinated with the different flavor (sorry, flavour) options that Canadians get to choose from such as in seasonings and chips. We bought some random items and of course I had to get another Double-Double before crossing back into the USA with our NEXUS cards (again go get a NEXUS card, trust me you will thank me later). Our drive home was pretty uneventful and to me it seemed to fly by until we got to Everett. Ok, WDOT you need to fix this problem. Every time I drive south on I5 and I hit Everett (the stretch right after the big lot of boats, y'all know what I mean right after you leave Marysville) and we slow down to a crawl for what seems like no good reason. I realize the reason is because people are merging to avoid exiting and people who are merging onto I5 want to avoid immediately exiting...but COME ON... it is sad. Fix it, please. Don't use the light rail excuse, don't use the there isn't enough money so let's slap on another gas tax excuse -- just fix it already. It got me thinking -- Portland OR has a great mass transit system, Vancouver BC seems to be implementing a great one...and Seattle WA...yeah, we'll just leave it at that.
We stopped in Mill Creek to shop at one of our favorite stores, Central Market. After loading up on groceries for the next week or so we finally came home, unpacked, ate dinner, I got to re-synch my iTouch and now I am blogging. Some time in between all that, laundry got done, emails got checked (read at least, not replied to), and we have succumb to turning on the heat in our house.
Again, although it was only 4 days and what seems ridiculous to blog about was a great 4 day mini vacation. I am SO glad that we took it. Tomorrow I hope that I won't have to stay too late to catch up. Here's to trips! Yay!
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