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well let me start off by saying that for mel's bday, our neighbors baked mel a penis cake. this was kind of funny, especially when our 80 year old neigbor, Van, stopped over the other night to say happy bday:






so what's been up?

well, EMC stopped over Friday after work...we caught up on what we've been up to... ed's been at this college called Heartwood studying chinese medicine. he's off the raw food diet, now eating whatever his body tells him to eat, so long as its organic and not too high up on the food chain.. i think goat's milk, goat cheese and goat meat (once so far) is as high up as he'll go. he schooled us on canola oil (cheap canadian oil) and a cool way to make coffee that wont kill us in the long run. he has a long beard and long hair now. full rasta hippy man. he's chillin though.... and on his way to the amazing san juan islands off the coast of northern Washington state. i got him to eat some bacon in this flick, though:

so we went to vancouver, BC last saturday... EMC got off 3/4 of the way there. oh, we stopped in Seattle, by the way to pick up a piroshy at Piroshky, Piroshky (got the smoked salmon jawn). also picked up some super juicy Rainier cherries (the yellow and red ones). oh, and some little SUPER juicy organic donut-shaped peaches.



we went to chinatown in Vancouver and it was comepletely full of heroin addicts and other junkies... that sucked. gastown near the water was ok, but nothing special. when we got to Vij's, there was what do you know, an hour to an hour and a half wait. we strolled the streets and found CRU wine bar. got a gin martini, mel got a pinot noir, we had some chevre cheese w/ champagne grapes and a seared scallop appetizer. went to vij's for an AMAZING meal. we had another appetizer (hey, we had a buzz, it's ok...) we chose the baby jackfruit in a black mustardseed and cardamom curry. with the bomb naan bread to sop it all up. I chose the venison medallions in some chocolate curry sauce. mel had lamb tenderloin w/ mushrooms and this really good eggplant fritter. we also had some awesome drinks but i cant remember for the life of me what it was. this place comes HIGHLY recommended, i really loved the venison.




the wait coming home through customs blew. it took hours and hours. luckily, the view was incredible to the west. we stopped again in seattle on the way home. seattle seems a lot cooler than when we visited before...we found a dope new neighborhood there too to chill on. it's only 2 1/2 hours away.

tadd jets back on his alaskan fishing boat again until october.

snow patrol comes here on sunday for $7 admission to the Bite of Oregon food festival. they're touring w/ The Subways.