{"id":6258,"date":"2024-09-18T09:55:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T16:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=6258"},"modified":"2024-09-18T09:55:33","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T16:55:33","slug":"seattle-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/seattle-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wednesday is an odd day for an update, but I&#8217;ve been in recovery mode.  We traveled to Seattle for a quick weekend trip, and I&#8217;m still worn out.  (Doesn&#8217;t take much these days, really.)  I had a great time there and didn&#8217;t want to just skip the update altogether though, so here is it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We took off on the trip Friday, and after a short flight and getting settled into our apartment we still had time to find some dinner.  The first place that jumped out at us was a nearby Capitol Grille.  We haven&#8217;t been there since moving from KC, and sure have missed it.  Our friends here gave us grief for going to a &#8220;chain&#8221; while on vacation, but then they&#8217;ve never been to one.  Uh yeah, it ain&#8217;t exactly Taco Bell.  We had our sights set on the calamari, as it&#8217;s one of our favorites, but when we saw the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecapitalgrille.com\/events\/wagyu-burger-and-wine-pairing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wagyu &amp; Wine<\/a> special, we couldn&#8217;t pass it up.  It was fantastic, don&#8217;t get me wrong, but it was way more food than I was expecting.  It effectively ended our evening; we were too stuffed.  It had been a long day traveling anyway, so we turned in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday, we went on a walking &#8220;Seafood Tour&#8221; down in the famous City Markey district.  This turned out to be a great time, highly recommended.  It was very interesting, and we sampled lots of different seafood.  (And, bonus, the best clam chowder I&#8217;ve ever had.)  We tried smoked salmon, a few different pokes, oysters, shrimp, scallops, cod&#8230; I&#8217;m sure I am missing a few but those come to mind at the moment.  All in all, a big success.  After that tour, we decided to take a walk down to the ballpark and catch a Mariners game.  Tickets were reasonable, and there were plenty available last minute.  It was about a mile walk, but we made a few stops along the way, so it wasn&#8217;t too bad.  It was a little rainy, so we put lots of work into finding seats under an overhang, only to get there and find it is a covered stadium.  Oh well, better safe than wet.  Very nice stadium.  Good fans, good game, and they even pulled out a win.  (Not that we had much interest if they won or not, but it did make it more exciting.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday, it was time to go back home, but we still had time to walk back to the Piers for a boat tour.  On the way, we stopped at a place called Ludi&#8217;s for some breakfast.  We passed it on one of our walks the day before, and they had a line out the door.  Must be good, we&#8217;ll try it!  Indeed, it was fantastic.  Sort of a little cafe, and the owner was super nice.  (All of the employees were, as a matter of fact.)  We noticed several people getting their picture taken with the owner, so we did a little searching and found an <a href=\"https:\/\/seattlerefined.com\/eat-drink\/ludis-restaurant-seattle-staple-where-every-bite-tells-a-story-filipino-food-gregorio-rosas-greg-pnw-dining-breakfast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> on the place.  He stopped by our table and talked for a while, very interesting guy with interesting history.  Actually, between his rather strong Filipino accent and my marginal hearing, I didn&#8217;t catch it all, but I got the gist.  After breakfast we went on the quick one-hour boat tour and got a few more good history bits, then it was time to get back home.  Great trip!<\/p>\n\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday is an odd day for an update, but I&#8217;ve been in recovery mode. We traveled to Seattle for a quick weekend trip, and I&#8217;m still worn out. (Doesn&#8217;t take much these days, really.) I had a great time there and didn&#8217;t want to just skip the update altogether though, so here is it. 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