Saturday, 8/7/2010

I had another wonderful day visiting with Nancy today. I am so thankful that we still keep in touch after all these years. My family moved to Spokane, Washington, from Gresham, Oregon, in 1989. Who knew at that time that I would love to get together with Nancy 21 years later:) After eating breakfast at Anita's Crepes in Ballard, working on a birthday party game, and lots of playing with Katie, we took Nancy to Federal Way to catch her ride back to Portland with her daughter Sonya.



We passed The Rock in Federal Way on our way to drop off Nancy. It seemed like a good place to stop for dinner on our way home. We started off with an order of potato chips with a bacon cheese dipping sauce. O.M.G. they were sooo good. We polished off that basket. Ben chose the "It's Your Thing" pasta dish--A flavorful red sauce with ground pork and beef, tossed with fettuccine and topped with Parmesan cheese. I chose the "Born on the Bayou" pasta dish--Pan blackened chicken, hot sausage and dry-aged pepperoni with crushed garlic and roasted peppers in our cajun cream sauce. Tossed with penne rigate and topped with shredded Parmesan cheese. Both dishes were delicious. We each managed to restrain ourselves so that we could take home leftovers for lunch tomorrow.

For dinner Katie ate animal crackers and drank milk. She tried our pasta dishes, but wouldn't have more than a bite. I think she was too distracted by the television directly over our table showing the Football Hall of Fame induction ceremony;)