Sweet Daddy Tiki and Tiki A. Moaikingbird are Lost in Paradise - Tiki Travel

SDT Sweet Daddy Tiki Tiki Socialite Edmonton Joined: Jul 20, 2003 Posts: 1113	SDT Sweet Daddy Tiki Posted posted on Thu, Aug 2, 2007 11:39 PM Day 9 - Seattle We need a break from the vacation hurly-burly so we get a leisurely start to the day, enjoying breakfast with Elicia in the garden. stuffed French toast Miraculous weeping Moai After blogging and checking our email we're off to Trader Vic's for lunch, but first we hit a thrift store on upscale Mercer Island. Gary buys a viewmaster with lots of reels and an Arnold Palmer learn-to-golf record. This is the first Trader Vic's either one of us has been to. It's gorgeous. We sit in the bar where it's less formal than the restaurant and crammed with more of the good stuff - artifacts from PNG, tapa lining the walls, etc. I have the bongo bongo soup (rich & delicious) and a deliciously juicy burger of Kobe beef with cambozola cheese and a side of curry fries. To drink - a scratch Mai Tai and a Navy Grog. We pocket our swizzle sticks of course. On the way out I buy a Moai bowl. Then on to the Hawaiian General Store, where the shirts are LARGE! Hawaiian quilt This is my favourite thing in the store, and I would certainly have bought it had I not splurged on the bowl at TV: Authentic Russian tiki nesting dolls! This blew my Ukrainian mind. Back to the dogbytes B&B to rest from our day of hard labour. This evening's meal is at Elliot's - a seafood place on the waterfront. The oyster bar has dozens of choices from the west coast, east coast, and abroad. Being from landlocked Edmonton, we are not used to such variety. We tell our oystress the qualities we like (briny, meaty & local), and she brings us an assortment of raw oysters on the half shell. Slurpalicious! Woofmutt joins us again this evening, and once more is a convivial companion. We all go for a walk along the boardwalk, flatten another penny (this time with an octopus design) and enjoy the salty evening air on our last night in Seattle. look into the vortex!

Day 9 - Seattle

We need a break from the vacation hurly-burly so we get a leisurely start to the day, enjoying breakfast with Elicia in the garden.

stuffed French toast

Miraculous weeping Moai

After blogging and checking our email we're off to Trader Vic's for lunch, but first we hit a thrift store on upscale Mercer Island. Gary buys a viewmaster with lots of reels and an Arnold Palmer learn-to-golf record.

This is the first Trader Vic's either one of us has been to. It's gorgeous. We sit in the bar where it's less formal than the restaurant and crammed with more of the good stuff - artifacts from PNG, tapa lining the walls, etc.

I have the bongo bongo soup (rich & delicious) and a deliciously juicy burger of Kobe beef with cambozola cheese and a side of curry fries.

To drink - a scratch Mai Tai and a Navy Grog. We pocket our swizzle sticks of course. On the way out I buy a Moai bowl.

Then on to the Hawaiian General Store, where the shirts are LARGE!

Hawaiian quilt

This is my favourite thing in the store, and I would certainly have bought it had I not splurged on the bowl at TV:

Authentic Russian tiki nesting dolls! This blew my Ukrainian mind.

Back to the dogbytes B&B to rest from our day of hard labour. This evening's meal is at Elliot's - a seafood place on the waterfront. The oyster bar has dozens of choices from the west coast, east coast, and abroad. Being from landlocked Edmonton, we are not used to such variety. We tell our oystress the qualities we like (briny, meaty & local), and she brings us an assortment of raw oysters on the half shell. Slurpalicious! Woofmutt joins us again this evening, and once more is a convivial companion.

We all go for a walk along the boardwalk, flatten another penny (this time with an octopus design) and enjoy the salty evening air on our last night in Seattle.

look into the vortex!

Post #322912 by Sweet Daddy Tiki on Thu, Aug 2, 2007 11:39 PM