A Visit from Amber and Thomas

A cloudy but otherwise near-perfect day means not much to write about. We had a lovely slow morning and since we forgot to bring cacklin’, I had unfrosted strawberry poptarts while Dave had granola, both courtesy of the Mariner market. We hung out in the room with the door cracked open and the fire on until Amber and Thomas got here a little after 10, then walked to Tolovana and back followed by lunch at Bill’s. Our legs are still tired. Thomas has always been a good buddy and at Bill’s we found out one reason why we get along so well; he’s the only other person I’ve ever met who prefers unfrosted poptarts!

After lunch and a short walk through town they came back to the hotel and we hung out there for a while, then headed back to return to their life with kids. Just thinking about having kids that age made me need a nap, which I did on the couch while Dave read and worked on next week’s David Hill education night talk on the wines of Alsace. Then he took a nap while I did some knitting.

Once we were both awake we went for a short and pleasant walk around the sewage ponds, followed by more relaxing until dinner. We bought an escape room mystery puzzle in town. It will be our third mystery puzzle, starting with one that Jen and Reagan did at Elliot Way that was so hard that Dave and I couldn’t even get more than two pieces in, then last Thanksgiving’s where we got the puzzle done but needed to get a hint for the solution. You may see a getting easier trend here.  This one is for kids 9 & up so we’re hopeful.

Dinner was at the Bistro, whose slogan has changed from “Memorable Meals of Honorable Mention” to “Food without Confusion”, which I find a little confusing because, well, food generally isn’t confusing. Dinner was excellent although their great use of end of season corn and peaches meant that the whole meal was a little too sweet. Dave’s Thai style seafood stew was the exception; it was not sweet but it was very spicy and delicious. A few spoonfuls of the spicy broth over my halibut (with peaches AND corn) balanced everything out.

After dinner we came back to the room and worked on the puzzle. We managed to get the edges done, but it was harder than we thought it would be, since there were two places in the sides where we got things attached in the not right place. Also the table is v. small and the puzzle kind of hangs off the edges. Stay tuned.