A Trip to Aberdeen

We have been totally out of coffee cups for our Keurig coffeemaker for the last few days. Forry finally found a couple of cups in his stash this morning, but that's all the caffeine we had. Late this afternoon, we finally got ambitious enough to unload the sewing machine from the passenger seat of Toad II and head for the Safeway store in Aberdeen, about twenty miles from here. After getting the coffee, some orange juice and a few other things (we were careful as there is very little room left in Toad II.)

It was late enough in the day that we started looking for a place to eat. Since we were in Aberdeen which is on Grays Harbor, I wanted seafood. We looked on one of the iPhone apps and found a place on the waterfront, the Breakwater Seafood and Chowder House. It would have been nice to have been here earlier in the day as the have a very nice outdoor porch that looks out on one of the drawbridges.

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Half of the place is a fresh fish market while the other half is a little restaurant. You order at the counter and the lady delivers food to your table. Forry ordered calimari sticks and chips --

While I ordered a Crab Louie that was absolutely delicious. I haven't had really good fresh Dungeness crab in a l-o-n-g time.

This was a nice find. I would definitely return here to eat anytime. Not fancy by any means, but really good food!

A Birthday and A Trip to Aberdeen

May is always a busy month of celebrations for us. First it's my birthday, then Mother's Day, then our anniversary and now today is Forrest's birthday. He's seventy-four years young today. And we still have Grandson Micah's birthday to go next Monday. And that's just our immediate family -- we seem to have lots of friends who are "May Babies" as well. Indeed it's a very busy month!

It was another rainy, drippy day today. But at least we are parked pretty much out in the open here at Travel Inn RV Park, so it isn't so terribly dark.

We were badly in need of bread and milk and orange juice, so drove over to the Safeway in Aberdeen. (It has a gas station and we had gas discounts to use up before the end of the month!) My, what a busy store. It sure had nice produce and bakery sections. I even bought a chocolate cupcake for Forry's birthday along with lots of licorice in anticipation of family card games this weekend perhaps...

On our way home, Forry's cell phone rang and he was treated to a Happy Birthday serenade from Daughter Mary Mae and her family. We're sure looking forward to seeing them this weekend!

When we got home, I fixed green salads while the potatoes were baking. I used our Foreman grill to broil a rib steak for us to share. I'm glad yesterday's mail included a new supply of bourbon smoked salt -- we sure like it on our steak. I also ordered some bourbon smoked pepper and some bourbon smoked paprika that I'm looking forward to trying.

Brother-in-law Rich sent a note this morning saying that he had checked out putting a 30 amp electrical receptacle in his shop so that we could park Auntie Violet at his and Sister Roxy's place. We'll move over there tomorrow and help get ready for the mini-family reunion that is rumored to be happening there this weekend.