What did you eat today?
location: Friday Harbor to Vancouver
Breakfast: toast with peanut butter
Morning Snack: hot cocoa at the Bean.
Lunch: split green salad and bacon burger at Rockfish grill in Anacortes. Pretty good burger, really. The girls liked the kids burgers as well.
Afternoon snack: Coke zero
Dinner: Split a ceasar salad and a Guinness steak and mushroom crock at Wolf & Hound. Great combination of flavors
Dessert: Split a chocolate lava cake and vanilla ice cream at Wolf & Hound
Location: Friday Harbor and Shaw Island
Morning Snack: Chips and salsa
Lunch: Crab!
One pot brought up 10 legal sized crabs and we had a feast on the beach. Picked it out on sourdough bread with some cocktail sauce.
Afternoon snack: Coke zero
Dinner: Surf and Turf with Adam and Sharalyn. Steak and salmon, grilled with rosemary, onions, and lemon. Also rice, an avocado salad, and roasted potatoes
Dessert: Ice cream with hot fudge. The Tillamook Mudslide was particularly awesome
Breakfast: toast with peanut butter
Lunch: peanut butter and jelly sandwich
Afternoon snack: frappuccino thing from The Bean. Really good and chocolatey
Dinner: a garbanzo bean and tomato dish Petra made. The girls loved it
Dessert: mocha ice cream bar
Location: Friday Harbor
Breakfast: Toast with peanut butter
Morning Snack:
Lunch: Split a burrito from Tia’s Tacos
Afternoon snack: Some chocolate chips, Coke Zero
Dinner: Burger stuffed with bleu cheese, plus some of those Kettle Chips in Buffalo Bleu flavor which they’ve stopped selling in California. Also watermellon
Dessert: Ice cream
Location: Friday Harbor
Breakfast: Toast with peanut butter
Lunch: An amazing Panang pork curry dished up by Alan’s backdoor lunch spot. So nice to be back at FHL where friends share.
Afternoon snack: Chocolate chips, Coke Zero
Dinner: BBQ chicken, quinoa, green salad, some cucumber thing
Dessert: A s’mores ice cream cake from Hayley’s
Breakfast: Granola with mango and blueberries. Hot tea
Lunch: Roast beef and rocket! The original, at market chef. So very happy. They also had the Buffalo Bleu kettle chips that they have speed selling in California. Diet coke
Afternoon snack: chocolate chip cookie from Market Chef. Coke zero
Dinner: potluck. There was crab, there was pulled pork, choeps and guacamole and potato salad, and other stuff, too. Coke zero
Dessert: Abel’s birthday cake, homemade ice cream, a ton of chocolate chip cookie dough.
Location: Kelso, WA -> Friday Harbor
Breakfast: A bacon and egg croissant from Starbucks. Astonishingly good, considering I don’t like that sort of thing. Orange juice
Lunch: Garlic chicken and rice from Thai Gusto in Everett. Happened to remember this place as we were driving in to town. Tessa claims to love Thai food, but by “Thai food” she means sticky rice. Not so much with the protein.
Afternoon snack: Java chip Frappuccino
Dinner: Hamburger and chicken and green salad and watermellon / blueberry salad with Justin and Rita. The hamburger was something called “Hamburger Bacon” which is ground beef cured like bacon added to normal ground beef. It makes quite a burger.
Dessert: Peanut butter M&M brownies and Mint chip brownies
Location: Ashland, OR to Mt. Saint Helens
Breakfast: Huge free breakfast at the Bard’s Inn. Oatmeal, breakfast burrito, sausage
Morning Snack: Iced tea, some cheese popcorn
Lunch: Split a burrito at Qdoba. Diet Coke
Dinner: Chicken and dumplings, green salad, Iced tea. Ate at the 19-Mile House coming down the mountain from Mt. Saint Helens. Honestly, mixed reviews. The chicken and dumplings were legit, but everything else had a very packaged flavor to it, including the berry cobbler.
Dessert: Berry cobbler and lava cake at 19-Mile House. Both sucked. The lava cake really sucked. I mean, instead of being cooked to the point where it was still gooey, they just squirted Hershey’s syrup on top. The berry part of the cobbler was awesome, but the cobbler part was meh.
Location Albany to Ashland, OR
Breakfast: Raisin bran, cranberry juice
Lunch: Hot dog from Costco… start of our trip to WA
Afternoon snack: Buster bar! For some reason, I’ve been thinking about these for a while. Growing up, my elementary school had minimum days from time to time, and the only fast food within walking distance was Dairy Queen… so basically 100 kids would descend on the place. I don’t remember when we were allowed to walk there on our own and just get picked up in the back parking lot. I always had a Buster Bar, though I was probably the only one who liked them. For the uninitiated, I can describe them better by how it seems like they are made. Imagine a small paper cup, dump in some roasted, salted peanuts, mix in some hot fudge. Let it chill, then fill the cup about 2/3 of the way with vanilla ice cream (well, ice milk). Add another layer of fudge and peanuts, shove in a popsicle stick, chill, remove the paper cup and dip in a chocolate shell.
I haven’t had one in a long time, but every now and then in college I might stop at a Dairy Queen and pick one up. I was explaining them to the girls, and then around 3:00 today, decided Redding had to have a Dairy Queen. They’ve renamed it DQ, and they don’t have Buster Bars on the menu, but they have them if you ask.
Dinner: Went to Standing Stone Brewery in Ashland, OR. Had a great bacon bleu cheese burger. Fries were mediocre (steak style, which leaves a mushy center). Beer was good. Ceasar salad was good. Split both with Suzanne.
Breakfast: Raisin Bran, cranberry juice
Morning Snack: Iced tea
Lunch: Burrito from Cancun
Afternoon snack: Leftover peanut butter skillet cookie, Coke Zero
Dinner: Leftover grilled chicken, rice, green salad
Dessert: Leftover black forest cake