Toss Salad and Scrambled Eggs

A lighter post-- I was going to write about eugenics, but I'll put a little fluff in between the heavy stuff this time.

So yesterday we trekked up to Seattle with the fam for the Bite of Seattle festival. There are few re-creative activities in this world that I think are better than a food fair!

We took the light rail from Tukwila and I am proud to say we were among the first passengers to ever do so as it was the opening day (which also meant no charge for the day). The kids watching the traffic and scenery from the big railcar windows. Once in Seattle we took the monorail to the square below the Space Needle.

The food tents were set up around a giant fountain. The walkway around the fountain spirals down so people can sit on the dry concrete or go down to play in the water. The day was hot so there were tons of kids running around in bathing suits. It reminded me a bit of the World's Fair park in Flushing Meadows but with a much more ethnically diverse crowd and a waaaay more laid back feeling to the affair.

So the food-- oh my glory the food! The three of us went off on our own to sample what the vendors had to offer and we ate:

A chicken gyro-- tender bread, thinly sliced and perfectly seasoned chicken, great yogurt sauce
Gyoza-- this was mostly for Lucy, a favorite of hers and very tasty
Calamari-- like butter, not chewy at all, with the perfect amount of salt and lemon
Jerk chicken-- spicy and sweet though hard to enjoy when I realized there was no johnny cake :(
Frozen custard-- enough said
Frozen yogurt with fresh fruit-- again for the baby and what I ate was great as it tasted just like thick, tangy greek yogurt
Cinnamon roasted almonds
Thai tea
Samples of a dozen different sodas and juices

By the end of the day we were stuffed. The kids ran around in the fountain while we all sat back and digested. If you are ever in the area and can make it to the Bite of Seattle (or the Taste of Tacoma) I highly recommend it.