book shopping and nature walking
Sep. 5th, 2009 11:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Sadly, ropo leaves tomorrow. Today was our last hurrah (as traveling days never count), and we pretty much took it easy. In the last two days we've hit 6, yes SIX, Half Price Books. I believe that might be all of them. They're having an additional 20% off sale this weekend, so we took the opportunity to stock up on things we didn't really need. I found several cookbooks, including one true gem: David Lebovitz's out of print Room for Dessert. It was his first cookbook and right now lists on Amazon Marketplace for $96.73 and Half.com for $84.35. I got it for $9 + 20% off! Big score.
In the afternoon we spent an hour or so at the Washington State Arboretum, which was nearly devoid of flowers. I got some good pics of tree bark, people's dogs, and benches. They had a whole rhododendron section, but as we recently learned, it's no longer rhododendron season, and thus it was the "nododendron" section, as Robbie likes to say. For dinner we went to Coho Cafe, which used to have the Worst Service in the World, but has much improved. Since with my work card we get bogo on entrees, it drew us back. We both had the herb and potato-crusted halibut, which was good (though I'm bitter that it was surrounded by a moat of sweet sauce, which wasn't specified on the menu, as I dislike sweet sauces), but the best thing of all was the chicken tortilla soup. It might not look like much, but it was soooooooooooo good. We ordered cups at the restaurant and even got bowls of it to go. (Smallest. bowls. ever. btw.)
I've posted all my farmer's market pics from when we went to![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
food_porn, so when those are up I'll link.
Okay, sadly I am already pooped from making even this post, and we are off to bed. But not together.
ropo leaves tomorrow. Today was our last hurrah (as traveling days never count), and we pretty much took it easy. In the last two days we've hit 6, yes SIX, Half Price Books. I believe that might be all of them. They're having an additional 20% off sale this weekend, so we took the opportunity to stock up on things we didn't really need. I found several cookbooks, including one true gem: David Lebovitz's out of print Room for Dessert. It was his first cookbook and right now lists on Amazon Marketplace for $96.73 and Half.com for $84.35. I got it for $9 + 20% off! Big score.In the afternoon we spent an hour or so at the Washington State Arboretum, which was nearly devoid of flowers. I got some good pics of tree bark, people's dogs, and benches. They had a whole rhododendron section, but as we recently learned, it's no longer rhododendron season, and thus it was the "nododendron" section, as Robbie likes to say. For dinner we went to Coho Cafe, which used to have the Worst Service in the World, but has much improved. Since with my work card we get bogo on entrees, it drew us back. We both had the herb and potato-crusted halibut, which was good (though I'm bitter that it was surrounded by a moat of sweet sauce, which wasn't specified on the menu, as I dislike sweet sauces), but the best thing of all was the chicken tortilla soup. It might not look like much, but it was soooooooooooo good. We ordered cups at the restaurant and even got bowls of it to go. (Smallest. bowls. ever. btw.)
I've posted all my farmer's market pics from when we went to
food_porn, so when those are up I'll link.Okay, sadly I am already pooped from making even this post, and we are off to bed. But not together.
