Sushi, Shopping, Fried Goodies, Farm Animals....oh my!!!

We have had a busy past few days!  We're going to attempt to do a blog entry together this time so I'm up first with our Thursday evening and J will finish it out with our lovely Saturday activities. On Thursday J and I and our friend Patti met at our collective favorite sushi place here in seattle, Umi.

Here is a picture of us at Umi, after we had stuffed our faces full. Note the happy "Umi  Glow." Sorry for the grainy picture, my little iPhone does not have a flash.

Umi is in Belltown and they have a fantastic happy hour with $3 beer and $5 sushi, sashimi, and other small plates.  We had the fantastic Seattle Crunch Roll which is basically a Seattle Roll (which is basically a California Roll with salmon instead of tuna) deep fried (because Americans love to take a somewhat healthy food and make it completely bad for you), and it never disappoints (Vegetarians don't despair! A veggie version of this roll is available for those who ask).  We also had a Green Decadence Roll which is pretty much the best vegetarian roll known to man, thank you J for turning me on to it.  Sushi is one situation where vegetarians are usually left out, for obvious reasons, and I typically get something uncreative yet still delicious like an avocado and cucumber roll but not this time.  The Green Decadence Roll had tempura asparagus in it as well as some other delicious veggies and it is topped with a wonderful sauce and cherry tomatoes. There were also the ***crunchy shrimp*** which are always present at any table at Umi that I have sat at so they must be fantastic.

So we totally meant to take a picture of the sushi before we devoured it (J even had her phone out and ready) BUT the pure deliciousness overwhelmed all reason and by the time we remembered to snap a photo, this was all that was left.

After dinner we took a ride in Patti's new Camry hybrid which has all the bells and whistles, I couldn't be more jealous.  J and I then popped into one of my favorite boutiques which is located just across the street north of Umi called Endless Knot.  It is a little bit hit and miss in terms of what they have in the store as in some of the stuff is to die for and others are...not.  They have great jewelry and usually a large selection of special occasion dresses, I've purchased probably two dresses that I wore to weddings there and my younger sister got her prom dress there as well...kids are so much more stylish these days! Anyhow, it was a delightful evening!


***J here! So this whole doing a post duet did not work out so well on account of my sheer lameness and excessive work load this week. So I went through the Umi Post above and added the photos and a couple sentences. We will follow up with a post featuring the Puyallup Fair (which will include a pronunciation lesson!)... so stay tuned!