Does that not look like the most delicious thing you could set your eyes on? That's a true mochiatto, not the caramel mochiatto like you order at a starbucks. Wow, am I a snob or what.
Eric came to visit us in Seattle recently. He hadn't been here in a while so we planned a few activities for the week. One of them was Seattle's coffee festival where several of the major coffee shops, coffee roasters, and bean importers all meet at Seattle Center, charging a modest entry fee in exchange for free samples. It was our first year and I highly recommend it if your a bit of a coffee snob.
This is how we got started. Here's to gorgeous latte art! Cheers!
There were also these guys doing these "chemist brews" which is essentially making coffee like you make tea, just pouring hot water over grinds, swishing it to cool it a bit and then drinking it. I had some and it was the only drip I'd drink black. It was delicious.
Oh yeah, there was also several chocolate vendors. I vote yes.
This photo makes me want a latte right now, and it's 10:20pm
Good times! Thanks for joining us Dad! Now if step backwards in time a couple weeks, you'd find us with Eric once again. Ruth has been wanting to do this one particular bike ride through the kettle valley in Kelowna. Literally, she's been wanting to do this ride as long as I've known her, which is a long time, and it's sad I never took her. I essentially waited for her to plan it herself. But we finally did it this summer, and it was a beautiful ride.
It's essentially a bike route built on the bed of an old railway. The actual railway is gone, but the bridges and tunnels are still there. Several years ago Kelowna suffered a terrible forest fire that burned almost half of the bridges. Thankfully, the province spent the money to rebuild them.
So.. we stopped at a rest area at the half point to the 12 mile station, and literally, the moment I set my bike down I was accosted by chipmunks. Quite a few of them. They came right up to my feet and stuck their nose in the air looking for handouts. And thanks to Ruth, we had them!
Trail mix!
After a good ride we arrived at 'Ruth Station'. Had to make it there purely for that last photo. What I don't have any photos of is how we had sunshine for the entire ride except the last hundred feet, when it hailed so hard the pellets were bouncing off my arms. I've never ridden so fast in my life.
So it was refreshing to finish the days ride with some delicious food at the Grey Monk Winery. The view was stunning. Before dinner I wandered down into the vineyard and sat down in the dirt to watch the sun set behind the mountain. I think I had a deep moment of peace.
Oh yeah, one last photo. While Eric and Ruth and I wandered Queen Anne on Sunday we came across a board game store that had this on the shelf..
That's me as a zombie killer on the front of that box. I don't know if anyone remembers this post
http://roydenandruth.blogspot.com/2010_03_07_archive.html when I talked about a friends board game that I posed for. It was pretty fun, and equally entertaining to see my face on a product in a store.
That's all for now. We've had a busy summer so more posts coming soon.