Too Much Good Food In Too Little Time

As you can probably tell from Jill's recent entries, we have been eating well. First, Sally rolled into town and Jill had to show her a great time by going to the best restaurants EVERY night (given the limited time, we actually dropped a few from the list).

Then we flew to Sonoma on Horizon Air from Seattle direct to Santa Rosa. The flight went along the Eastern ridge of Mt Rainier and we were staring at the mountain that looked like it was only 1000-2000 feet below us. It was amazing. In addition this prop plane flew lower than our standard Alaska Air flights to California. It may be coincidence, but there was no turbulence to speak of and that was enjoyable for me (turbulence makes me wish I was knocked out cold).

We spent some time biking and driving around Dry Creek Valley, Russian River Valley, and the Alexander Valley in addition to wondering around Healdsburg tasting wine in town. I won't comment on how much wine we purchased but suffice it to say that we may actually get a bigger locker at the Seattle Wine Storage facility.

That wasn't the hard part although I did get tasting fatigue one day and basically could no longer tell a pinot noir from a zinfandel. The hard part was all the 4 or 5 star restaurants (many with multi-course tasting menus) less than a week after we showed Sally around Seattle in a similar fashion.

We ate at: Willi's Seafood & Raw Bar, Barndiva, Zin, Mirepoix, Cyrus, Tra Vigne, Auberge du Soleil, Bouchon, and Terra. Did I leave any out? Probably. We both gained a couple pounds but were both surprised we didn't gain more than what the scale read. Time to swim...