I almost forgot about that. Not too much to report...up until a few days ago. Work was fine, home was boring but fine, I recovered admirably from the bout of intense heat that Seattle dealt me - it was all just fine. Tuesday Dawn came into town, and we've had fun since then - didn't do much Tuesday - got Thai with Mikey on Broadway, came home and slept. Wednesday the fun started, we went to IKEA and essentially furnished the rest of the apartment, with a side trip to Target - I'm pretty much all set up now. Dinner was at IKEA out of necessity, and for $5, it wasn't bad. Nothing to write home about, so I won't. Thursday, more shopping - Target, Michael's crafts, and then to meet Mikey for dinner. We were going to go to Dixie's BBQ (apparently the best in the city), but it got too late, so we got Quizno's. It was...anticlimactic.

Today is when the actual fun started - up at 10:30 or so, lounge around until 12, and then downtown, Dawn's first time. We got lunch at Cafe Campagne (highly recommended, the prix fixe lunch includes a wonderful house-made sausage sandwich with a sort of chunky tzatziki - excellent.) We wandered around Pike Place for a while, saw people tossing fish, bought some flowers, checked out some excellent street musicians, and then off to the retail corridor. Not too much happening there, so we grabbed a refreshment at Il Fornaio, and then off to see the Seattle Public Library. (If this doesn't sound like a destination to you, then you haven't seen the Seattle Public Library.) It was pretty awesome, Dawn got a book to read while I'm at work, I saw the library, and took a short, unplanned nap.

From there we wandered back down towards the market in search of dinner, which we found at 94 Stewart. The restaurant itself is nice, and the appetizers were great - I had fresh clam chowder, and Dawn had the house specialty, a quartered, panko-encrusted fried avocado with crab and corn relish and some other assorted deliciousness. Try it, you'll like it. I had lamb chops with lemon-rosemary reduction and lemon red potatoes, and it was...average. The chops were cooked well, but could have been hotter, and the seasoning was a little overdone. The desserts made up for it though, house-made tortes - I had a turtle torte, and Dawn peanut butter - both excellent. Now we're back home, and shortly we're going out for the night. Fun fun.

Tomorrow, we'll be kayaking on Lake Washington while the Blue Angels show us exactly how close you can two planes together and still live to tell about it.