Since I was able to catch the red eye flight out, I had a free day to spend with A up there (V was on a work trip so it was just us girls! ;D). A was gracious enough to take me on a mini yarn crawl. To make up for it, I took A on a mini binge eating tour! ;)
Once I landed and got settled in, A picked me up and we went to Dough Zone Dumpling House in Bellevue. For a Chinese dim sum restaurant, it was pretty good (that's high praise from me since the best Chinese food on the planet is at my grandpa's house! :)). After brunch, we headed out to Mad Cow Yarns located in the Town Center Lake Forest Park. It was a cute place and the owner was really nice, helpful and friendly. Here's what I got:
As we were looking for Mad Cow Yarns, we found a bookstore called Third Place Books. It was a huge bookstore, very much like an old Borders (just without a music section) that also sold used books. I found this there and ended up picking it up for Hubby:
Isn't it hilarious?! :P
We spent so much time in there that we weren't able to hit a place called the Chocolate Man in the same complex (A said that if we didn't leave now, we wouldn't be able to hit the other two (2) places I wanted to go to).Then we headed toward Yarn of Eden in Country Village Shops. That area was really set-up like a country village square. There was even a duck just "hanging out" in the parking lot! :P The store was a bit small but, they had this:
Our last stop was going to be All Wound Up Yarn Shop but we discovered that it was closed on Mondays! *sob* :( Since I was still looking for a pair of Knitter's Pride Nova Cubics US5 dpns for Hubby, we ended up at Serial Knitters Yarn Shop (again). I was hoping that I could get this year's pin but, they didn't get it in yet. *bummers* But, the person running the register said that she'd mail them to me! (They are so sweet and nice at that store! It's seriously one of my favorite places to go to if we're in the area or passing by!) So, not only did I find and pick up Hubby's dpns, I also got this:
After that, we headed back to A's place to walk Sammy (actually, I think Sammy walked us) and then headed out for dinner. Since it was a girl's day out, I told A, "We need to eat dessert first! No boys and we can binge on all the sweets we want before getting "real" food." A agreed and wanted to have a molten chocolate cake at Hot Cakes Molten Chocolate Cakery in Ballard. So we walked over there. The place was fairly empty; we ordered a hot molten chocolate cake and this really good peanut butter, chocolate chip cookie. We got our cookie and waited for our cake; more people came in. We notice that people who came in after us received their hot molten cakes but, ours was still in the oven? ... I guess. 8S Eventually, we noticed that it seemed as if everyone who came in after us got their molten cakes except us. :( So, I went up there to inquire if the flour was still being grown for our cake. The guy making the desert said that he made it already. I said that we still had our number tag so, we never got it (and, if you looked at our table, it was obvious that we only had a plate of something, no cake). They apologized and said our cake was coming right up; they eventually figured out that they gave away our cake! :( However, to make it up to us, they comped our entire order. :) (Btw, the cake was pretty good and it was even better comped! ;)). And here's what the famous hot molten chocolate cake looks like:
And, it was really quite a day: filled with lots of fun, girl talk, yarn talk, and foodie talk! :) Thank you, A for taking me around and stuffing me silly! :P Thanks to you, I think I gained five (5) pounds (despite all that walking) and grew my stash a bit more! :P We need to do it again! ;P
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