They were right outside my apartment 😀 How interesting!
San Juan Islands, WA
BH and I made our way to SJI on 16 JULY, we had been looking forward to this trip as it’s been so long that we went for a holiday/getaway.. Actually, I had been to SJI last yr with Caryn.. enjoyed it and decided to bring BH there this yr! I was seriously looking forward to this trip – booked whale-watch tour and accomodation abt 1 mth before.. even planned food to bring on this little roadtrip!
The day before, I instructed BH to collect Trophy cupcakes – he came home with 3 boxes.. wah! I was super excited tt he bought so many!!! BUT to only realised that he got 2 extra EMPTY boxes frm them… I was like ” ok…… ” 🙁
Anyhow, on the fateful friday – we woke up bright and early ” we are gonna have a whaling good time!” Drove abt 2 hrs to Anacortes Ferry Terminal and waited in line to board the ferry with our car.. its our 1st time driving up a ferry and I was super resistant to it .. coz I don’t like new things .. BH was like ” if u don’t try, u don’t know! ” so….. we waited in line.. enjoying the nice and peaceful view
Finally, got on the ferry with the car – wah.. super easy.. like paying for carpark fees at the counter then drive-in .. no need to squeeze with pple.. The cost of car+2 humans on the ferry US$66!!!! :O geeez….
The jouney to Friday Habour was scenic… the little islands we saw along the way reminds us of LOST .. haha… but I was tired… we woke up super early to catch the ferry ya see ( my idea as I figured out that we might get lost since it’s our 1st time driving – turns out that everything went on smoothly)
Finally, we reached Friday habour ( on a friday! how apt!) then we ‘chiong’ to look for a FREE parking slot which allows us to park for 8hrs straight! And we explored the town. Popeye the habour seal is still ard! haha.. he just got fatter! This time, we didn’t need to feed him with fish – she ( it’s a female!) was popping out of the water when we reached there.. heh
Visited a spices shop ( which i think is new – didn’t see it last yr) , alot of interesting spices as you can see in the above pic.. I also met Paul the octopus in a souvenir shop and asked him if we wold see whales – he said yes BUT looks like he’s not accurate this time round 🙁 Btw, I love the sharky hat! so cute!
We joined San Juan Excursions for whale-watch as we manged to buy the tix cheap from Groupon
So…. there isn’t any whales… super disapted… I mean.. I had more fun with Caryn… well, this goes to say that some experiences are better shared with a special friend than with your hubby? haha.. I will always rem that I saw whales in its natural habitat for the first time with Caryn for life!!
The good news is – They issued us a ‘Rain check’ immediately ( on the boat) after they announced that we can’t see whales! I’m impressed! This means we cld go back to them anytime for another FREE whale-watch trip!!! 😀 So, it’s kinda like Buy 1 get 1 free?
After the ‘whale-less’ trip, we had dinner and checked into our B&B Trumpeter Inn You need a car/take a cab to reach this inn from Friday Habour – Like I mentioned, I don’t like to try new things, I rather stick with something I know BUT BH was like ‘ Try new things… ‘ so we booked here.. and drove to this ulu countryside place
Stayed at Yarrow room which was the cheapest and quite small… the first sounds we hear when we entered the room was ‘moooooooooooooooooo ‘ > cows!!! haha.. I was like ” that’s it! we are gonna sleep to this melodious music! ” Somehow, the cows stopped mooing after 8pm? haha… i think the farmer muted them or they fell asleep? hahaha
Location of the inn was quiet… we simply love the owner’s dogs.. they are so adorable.. we didn’t mind the Narrow Yarrow room as we were only staying for 1 night. Breakfast was ok… I still like breakfast at Kirk’s House – nobody can beat their Granola 🙂
After checking out, we went to Lime Kiln Park ( Whale-watch park) – Once again, Caryn and I saw whales here last yr!!! This yr… there’s no whales 🙁
Left the place disapted again and went to Pelindaba Lavender Farm It was the week of Lavender Festival and the lavender was at full bloom! Very pretty! 🙂
Harvested our own lavender which wasn’t very fun.. haha.. it’s quite tedious actually. Given a choice, I would choose to pick strawberries instead!
We drove ard the island… had ice-cream at Roche Habour and made our way to the Ferry terminal, just in time for the 1.30pm ferry back to Anacortes – then back to our usual ‘chores’ – groceries shopping
I felt that this trip was kinda wasted… coz we didn’t see whales and paid for the ferry, B&B 🙁 BH thought otherwise.. oh well, it’s nice that BH is always more generous with $ compared to me
Last pic to end the post
Looking forward to the next SJI trip – hope to see whales the next time round!!
Piggin’ out at Famous Dave’s
If you know me, you’ll know that I’m kinda Halal – I don’t like to eat meat, esp. pork. Oh well, BH needs meat ya see… so I seized the opportunity when I saw that I’m able to get a $15 coupon for Famous Dave’s
It’s our first time here and it’s definitely better than Denny’s or Applebees 😀
You see the piggy face in the pic? haha.. the friendly server drew that for us when introducing the sauces for us. How cute is that!
So BH had their famous BBQ Ribs while I settled for Chicken tenders. I was pleasanlty surprised that the fried items are not dripping with oil ( even the paper was not oily) and the ribs tastes good ( to a non-pork eating person) – not dry and hard! Even so, I can’t help but to think of how much calories is in this meal 🙁
The only saving grace is we had a great lunch and the serving was HUGE – we only ate fruits for dinner that night… haha.. i hope that evens out the calories in-take for the day 😀
Bainbridge Island, WA
I had set pictures aside and wanted to blog about this for the longest time BUT I was too busy to do so. Finally, found abit of time to do so now and then I’ll start to get busy again later
July 10
It was a bright and sunny day. ( haha.. i realised that I’m starting my blog entry like a Primary school compo!!) Anyway, summer is here and it was EXTREMELY sunny. I’m not hoping that I won’t melt in the sun when I’m back in SG. haha…
Actually, BH and I have no plans of going to Bainbridge – Our plan was for BH to go for a haircut , take a walk at Pike Place Market, buy some flowers and go for lunch. However, the weather was sooooooooo HOT and I was like ” Ice-cream would be nice….”
After the haircut, we decided to jump on a ferry and head to Bainbridge for lunch and ice-cream! 😀
The ferry ride was only 1/2 hr from seattle. We were very fortunate to reach the ferry terminal at 12noon and the next ferry was 12.20pm! haha.. don’t need to wait for a long time. The view on the ferry is beautiful as always.
It’s my 3rd time to Bainbridge – 1st with Caryn. 2nd with my family, 3rd with BH and I still like the place. Bought back really fond memories coz it was last yr around this time!!! So you can imagine me exclaiming these phrases ” hey… Caryn and I sat here! ” , ” My family and I ate here!” when I bought BH ard.
haha… okok… there’s nothing much to see at Bainbridge BUT in my opinion the ice-cream mks it worth it! 😀
Our 1st stop. My fave ice-cream creamy –
Love the ice-cream – fave favours: Maraschino cherry and cream + swiss chocolate
Don’t tell me about the calories pls!!
Then we had lunch here:
we were greeted by flies when we entered the cafe. geez… So, we choose to sit at the outdoor area – watching the world cars go by
*Can’t rem the food’s name so I will rename it!* BH’s food – ‘ang mo’ curry puff with funky pink sauce. Haha… the first time we see pink sauce!
My food – Rice pudding. erm… nuff’ said..eeks! forced it down BH’s throat anyway
after lunch, we walked ard and smelt the flowers then took the 3.50pm ferry back. We were so tired ( the sun tire us out!) and we fell asleep on the ferry ride. A pic of us to rem the spontaneous date! Tired but happy! It’s so easy to be happy here 🙂
Holiday of the year set!
BH and I had finally booked our air tix to go back to SG 😀 This is our ONLY holiday of the year! We are looking forward.. heh.. shan’t reveal the exact date here but it’ll be in Oct-Nov period.
After a very very long decison, we had decided to travel by Asiana Airlines, which happens to be the Airline of the Year 2010. It’s cheaper than SQ ( not like we are considering taking SQ – too ex) Because we are taking Asiana, we’ll have a super long layover at Korea ( it’s 22 hrs till the next flight). After calling the customer service countless times and reading forums, Asiana will be providing us a FREE 1N LAYOVER HOTEL in Seoul!!!! How cool is that! Seriously, keeping our fingers crossed that they will keep their word. heh…
Besides that, on the return trip, we will also be stopping in Korea for a 8 days holiday! It was supposed to be only 7 days BUT BH suggested we shld just go for 8 days so that we don’t have to rush.. can take time to ‘smell the flowers’ yay!
Do give suggestions on where to visit, what to do, where to stay? haha.. we haven’t really plan our Korea trip
Now there’s something really exciting to look forward to 🙂
Happy it’s here!
My period was late and it drove me crazy 🙁 With our ‘exciting’ sex life, nothing should happen. BUT for the first time in my adult life I was so many days late! Seriously, it got me paranoid – I feel normal .. so normal that I don’t even have my usual PMS = bad headache!
So the fear lingers…
late for 1 day “were u safe?”
late for 2 days “eh.. did u plant your seed in me?????!!!!”
late for 3 days “you are soooo DEAD!!!!!”
late for 4 days “we are not going to sleep on the same bed!”
and BH still have the cheek to say ” it better not be a girl… girls have alot of problems!!” grrrrr….
The point is……Heng ah!! It came on Independence Day! I was so happy to see RED! and I still have no idea why I was late this mth.
So scary I tell u! Before marriage, NO SEX because you don’t want it be be shotgun. After marriage, NO SEX because you don’t want it to be an accident.
I was so worried that I didn’t enjoy our movie night – Esclipse 🙁 and I broke my calories record by eating ice-cream for 4 consecutive days! I feel soooooooo guilty!
okok.. enough..I hope you are not disgusted by this post! :X
The best job in the whole wide world
Sometimes I complain.. Sometimes I whine
BUT
I cannot deny that I have the best job in the whole wide world! ( I think BH have the 2nd best job in the whole wide world!)
I always tell my mum how happy I am doing nothing or being busy with my ‘work’ which is on ‘project’ basis. I enjoy spending time with myself doing random things that come to my mind 🙂 nah… I don’t need that much money – I hardly shop for myself. I do have many wants BUT I end up not buying them. (Walgreens is like a Watson – shopping there don’t count!!)
I’m happy – just BH and I.
WAG deals of the week
This is NOT my BEST trip as in it’s not dirt cheap. However, I was pretty happy with my buys as I get $58 worth of items for only $20! Most of these items are things I badly need. Yes , I need a shaver v badly and suncreen too!
Transaction 1:
– Schick Qtro Shavor ( for BH) $8.99
– Schick Trimmer Razor ( for me) $8.99
– Wet ones (for the car) $1.99
– Schick disposable shaver ( for travelling) $5.99
– Blistex lip balm ( Great filler – as it generates RR) $2.99
Used $2 MQ for disposable shaver, $4 Qtro shaver, $2 Trimmer Razor, $0.50 wet ones, $4.50 RR from last week
Amt paid: $15.86 + tax
Received: $10 RR schick shavers + $3 RR lipbalm
Techically, I spent $2.86 for #1
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Transaction 2:
– 2 X Hawaiian Sun screen SPF 50 B1G1 $12.49
– Reeses chocolates ( as filler) $0.69
Used 2 X $1 MQ + $10 Schick RR
Amt Paid: $1.18 + tax
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The cashier commented ” You really know how to shop! ” 🙂
New lust
Strawberry picking!
Saturday was a bright and sunny day 🙂 I had been telling BH for the longest time that I wanna go berries picking, so I found out about Spooner Farms. The berries from this farm is known to be super sweet.. so… we decided to make a drive down to Olympia ( it’s 1 hrs drive there!). Anyway, Olympia is the capital of Washington State ( not Seattle)
We reached the farm ( easy to find) – it wasn’t those kinda isolated place you expect the farm to be. In fact, it was along the road. And yes, it was super crowded. Many pple were buying ready picked berries ( $2.25/lb) BUT we choose U-pick ( $1.25/lb). I was kinda suprised that U-pick was cheaper.. haha… anyway, it’s fun to eat the berries you pick.
Seriously, I was very excited. We walked into the rows of berry plants and I could see many red berries hiding underneath the leaves along the rows. hahaha ” 你不能摆脱我的魔掌!” (used google translate for the chinese words.. heh… not so power la!) So, we were allocated a row to pick berries from. The berries were in abundance!! You need not fear that you can’t fill up the box!
It’s not our first time doing strawberry picking together. We did it once in Cameron Highlands, Malaysia. The berries at Malaysia were not that sweet and were sparse. It’s totally different here!
The berries smelt soooooooooooo good…I can’t help it but to pop some into my mouth while picking! Not advisable!!! haha..
The unglam picking job! The weather was scrotching hot BUT still cool enough – we didn’t perspire! Picking to the view of Mt Rainier was simply a joy! I was really happy, suddenly I was worries-free! Strawberry picking is so theraputic!
I was reminding ourselves not to pick too many berries – fearing that we can’t finish it. However, BH brilliantly suggested that we could mk strawberry jam!!! 😀 So, we’ll making strawberry jam at the end of the week when the blender reach me! heh.. he even brought me to Ikea to buy jam jars and Fred Meyer to buy a special powder for the jam! Let’s see how it will turn out! I’ll mk more and bring to SG if it’s good!
We ended the day with grocery shopping at Walmart, Lacey – This Walmart is HUGE = alot of deals!! On top of it, it’s coupons friendly! hahaha… so… managed to grab cheaper groceries! As though we don’t want the day to end yet, we went to redeem our free dvd and watched ‘The Lovely Bones’ ( which I thought the movie was crap and the book was way much better!)
Happy day! More pls!!!