{"id":733,"date":"2006-05-29T20:11:52","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T20:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wordpress\/?p=733"},"modified":"2006-05-29T20:11:52","modified_gmt":"2006-05-29T20:11:52","slug":"fun-in-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"fun in the rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whew, I haven&#8217;t posted in several days, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/weblog\/\">Carolyn<\/a> came to visit for the weekend, and we were too busy running around in the downpours to blog! We visited <a href=\"http:\/\/rosylittlethings.typepad.com\/\">Alicia<\/a> at her darling store <a href=\"http:\/\/rosylittlethings.com\/\">Ella Posie<\/a>, where we purchased some fun items and learned a few unexpected and delightful things about Alicia (I bet you didn&#8217;t know she&#8217;s addicted to Big Gulps). We also headed out to Beaverton with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.action-hero.net\/blog\/knitblog.html\">Melissa<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/swim.typepad.com\/swim\/\">Melanie<\/a> to raid the Japanese craft books at Kinokuniya. That place KILLS me! I was good and only bought two books, which I&#8217;ll show you tomorrow.<br \/>\nWhat else? My friend Alice and her family were in town, so we headed up to the family castle (Mrs. H&#8217;s house), where we enjoyed homemade vanilla ice cream with angel food cake and chocolate sauce. They also broke open a bottle of Russian vodka from 1990:<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/russian vodka.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"russian vodka.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/russian vodka-thumb.JPG\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"3\" \/><\/a><\/center>I think everyone had fortified themselves with wine, so the vodka seemed to go down pretty easily.<br \/>\nAnd speaking of Russian things, Carolyn and I went into a Russian market today that had all sorts of interesting Russian foods and treats. They had some Russian kinderegg-type dealies that were really great.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/russian kinderegg.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"russian kinderegg.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/russian kinderegg-thumb.JPG\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"2\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nAnd check out the prize! A lovely bracelet!<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/russian kinderegg bracelet.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"russian kinderegg bracelet.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/russian kinderegg bracelet-thumb.JPG\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"3\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nSome other highlights? Meeting Carolyn&#8217;s two cousins who were also visiting; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pignpancake.com\/\">Pig &#8216;n Pancake<\/a>, my new favorite restaurant; the yummiest cold brew coffee EVER from <a href=\"http:\/\/bluegardenia.us\/\">Blue Gardenia<\/a>, shoes from PedX, fabric from the one-and-only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fabricdepot.com\">Fabric Depot<\/a>, and I don&#8217;t know. I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a lot more, but I am just too brain dead to remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whew, I haven&#8217;t posted in several days, but Carolyn came to visit for the weekend, and we were too busy running around in the downpours to blog! 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