vacation at home

[kismet09]

Saturday night, we went to Annapolis for sushi. I have never seen it so busy. I guess I should remember that, even though it's close to my home, other people go there for touristy vacation weekends. Even so, we got seated immediately at Yin Yankee, and Tim finished his tour of non-vegetarian foods by eating numerous fish things. We had one roll of smoked eel, salmon skin, cucumber, scallion and egg, another of tuna, roe, seaweed salad and cucumber, and a special that involved crab tempura and various vegetables. Also enjoyed the usual tamago, inari, and cucumber rolls. It never seems like it's going to be as much as it is when you order. I was stuffed. Not enough so to forgo icecream, though -- coconut almond chip provided a waffle-cone-stuffed finish to the meal.

Sunday we began at farmer's market, as we usually do. Got eggs, strawberries, basil plants for the garden, scones, lettuce and asparagus. I did more dyeing (we now have dyed 116 skeins of yarn, somewhere around 15,500 yards). Went on a quick 5 mile bike ride, had spinach salad for dinner, drove around looking for places to play Scrabble, but everything seems to close at 9 on Sundays, even when Monday is a national holiday.

Today, we headed to Alexandria in the morning, found Geoff and Mary's wedding present, stopped in Bethesda for lunch, and are now waiting out a thunderstorm so we can go run/bike. On helloyarn's recommendation, I'm watching Close Encounters of the Third Kind since I've never seen it. It has me pretty well hooked. The music especially has drawn me in.

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[strrretch.livejournal.com]

I LOVE Yin Yankee. I almost had a group willing to go there on Sunday night, but alas, we went to Sushi San in Canton. Sushi San is good and all, but Yin Yankee is pretty amazing. Anyplace that combines sushi and Chimay is okay in my book.

Annapolis in the summertime is way overcrowded. This is why, if I can help it, I like to bike there in the summer or go on kinda miserable days.