Adventure weekend in Seattle

After a lousy week of rain and cold (first rain for the whole summer mind you!) we got a little break, chalk-full of good ol' vitamin-D, sun to the lay person. On Saturday May and I decided to get a little exercise and kayak around the Seattle Arboretum. We rented a two-seater kayak with a fancy little rudder and headed over to the Lilly pad jungle at the arboretum. It was a lot of fun, but heading back into the wind on the way back was a little greweling - complete with hand blisters. From now on, spray-skirts all the way, makes a BIG difference keeping the water out.

On Sunday we decided to give our lower legs a work out so we drove to nearby Lynnwood and went to Myrtle Edwards State Park. Who knew that something so wooded and pretty was close to the city? It was a 2.5 mile loop to the beach where we had a little picnic. Aside from the flys, it was exactly what the doctor ordered. The puget sound was a little chilly, but it felt good on a warm day.

The best part of the weekend was trekking over to the new "H-Mart" in Lynnwood. A very fancy, huge, up-scale Korean supermarket - with a village of little Korean shops around it. It was like visiting a different planet, I had a hard time recognizing half of the fish, vegtables and canned goods. For the noodle lovers there was an entire isle dedicated to noodles, and multiple isles dedicated to frozen fish - the most exciting were the live fish tanks. I like the idea of staring my dinner down. As a treat May and I stopped by the pastery shop on the way out and picked up a Red bean honey bun. Yum!