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I drove up to Seattle on Valentines Day to volunteer for an AIDS
support charity banquet. Here are the before and after shots!

I suck at bowling.

To celebrate my last day on the job and T’s last day of summer school, we put together a Yam Crawl last night. We took some pictures to document the adventure, so here’s the shots and the reviews of the evening! Thanks to everyone who participated, we had so much fun and we ate SO MUCH YAM.

To Begin: Cafe Flora (2901 E Madison St (206-325-9100))

The team started at Cafe Flora for dinner and Yam Fries. Cafe Flora’s Bucket o’ Fries won us over from the start. The fries are a little floppy, large cut, not crunchy. Slight flavor on the fries, but the cayenne aioli dip is magical and transforms the already good fries into pure yam fry heaven. The table devoured two buckets, and scrapped the aioli cups completely clean.

Bucket of Yam Fries: $4.50

Smith Bar (332 15th Ave E (206-322-9420)

Smith Bar was packed but we managed to squeeze 8 into a booth with some supplementary chairs. We ordered up some fries right away. These fries had an identity crisis. They were over salted, good crunch but strange flavor — the yam inside was suspiciously white. Perhaps they were an odd type of sweet potato instead? The dip they came with was very odd, like tartar sauce with basil. Everyone chose ketchup instead.

Single serving: $5.00

Broadway Grill (314 Broadway E (206-328-7000))

Final Stop, Broadway Grill. These fries were the most fry-like: small, crunchy, no added seasoning. Came with two dips, but they were both a bit watery — we ended up dipping ours into ketchup.

Sweet Potato Fries: $5.00

We intended to hit Kingfish on 19th and table 219 on Broadway, but Kingfish was a 45 minute wait for a table. The fries at Smith weren’t that great, but the company and service was so good we lost track of time, so table 219 was closed by the time we got there. Thank goodness for Broadway Grill’s awesome hours!

So they’re painting our building, and Sarah is visiting with her puppy, Shay, and we just walked downstairs to go out for a walk. As I exited the downstairs door I held it open for Sarah with my right hand and… slid across the door like I was holding fingerpaints. they forgot to put up a wet paint sign. Awesome.

One of my neighbors is an artist in the plywood and paint area. Occasionally they leave the most interesting stuff in our back alleyway…

Introducing Duncan and Krista to the joys of Than Brothers pho, after the Girlyman concert.

There is a man sunbathing in a yellow bikini bottom, just blocks from my home. The harbringer is here! We made it through another winter!

The circus came to town… T and I went to see Cirque du Soleil’s new show, Corteo, out at Marymoor Park. The smallest “big top” I’ve ever been under, but the show was very cool. Especially the little person with the balloons…

That cute little shack by Half Price Books on the hill has a liquer license posted… Maybe it will be open again soon?

Ani at the Moore. Couldn't see her, but she sounded great!