For anyone who frequents Seattle’s Eastside and has been wondering where the “taco truck” went, some good news from the owner:
Taqueria Guadalajara (the taco truck) will re-open on February 7 at our new location in 15920 NE 8th St. Bellevue, WA 98005 located in the East Crossroad Shopping Center near the Post Office.
P.S .If you know of any more customers looking for our new address, please let them know. We really appreciate your support and look forward to see you soon.
Mail from Kenny’s cousin David this morning:
From: Pashman, David
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 5:58 AM
To: Kenny Wolf; Lauren Lavoie
Subject: congratulationsAre congratulations in order for the birth of your new baby OS?
Yes, I suppose you could say that Kenny and I (and the thousands of other folks who shipped Windows Vista) released our own little baby into the world today. I think she has a bright future ahead of her. :)
Living just off of 15th Avenue, Kenny and I find ourselves at Twenty-Two Doors quite often. Tonight, Kenny had a hankering for their burger (apparently snowboarding makes him crave beef), so we went there for dinner upon arriving home from Whistler. Their menu changes relatively often (more often than the website gets updated, it seems), and at certain times it seems to have more chickentarian* options than others. Tonight there were only two I hadn’t tried: a chicken dish and the veggie lasagne. I am generally loath to order chicken when I dine out, as it is often either dull or just as easily made at home. I asked our waiter, who seemed new, for some advice.
Me: How is the lasagne?
Waiter: The vegetarian lasagne? I haven’t tried it – I’m not a vegetarian. But I’ve seen it – it looks good.
Me: Okay, well, I’m not a vegetarian either, but I’ll try it.
I hadn’t realized that non-vegetarians couldn’t eat vegetables. I’ll have to file that one away.
Also, when Kenny and I were in Whistler this weekend, we saw a new restaurant/bar in the Village called 21 Steps. And I wondered: when one ascends 21 steps, does she find 22 doors at the top?
* Reminder to self: should write a blog entry defining this term at some point.
Kenny and I didn’t try to brave the icy roads to get into work today, but rather spent some time working from home and from Remedy Teas, a hip new tea shop around the corner from our condo (Kenny blogged his first impressions of Remedy a few days ago).
A man and a woman were sitting at a table near ours, and the woman was advising the man on how to get his own blog up and running. Her sage advice included:
And you need to provide an RSS feed on your blog, just for the small slice of geeks out there who use it.
Incidentally, I can see myself spending a lot of time at Remedy Teas in the future. Huge tea list + free internet + pleasant environment = happiness.
The 6ths have a song that goes
Highway 405 will take you
From the Boom-Boom Room
To Interstate 5 which goes right to
The San Diego Zoo…
Kenny and I had this song stuck in our heads all day during our trip to the San Diego Zoo with my brother. I hadn’t been to the zoo since I was a kid, and Kenny loves zoos, so we thought it would be a fun way to spend Xmas Eve.
The San Diego Zoo is most famous for breeding giant pandas in captivity, and has bred the first two giant pandas that were born in the US and have survived to adulthood. As a result, the lines to the panda exhibit are absurdly long, and we decided we’d see them another day. But we spent quite a while with the polar bears (recently on the endangered list) and the orangutans and gibbons (who share a habitat at the zoo).
At the entrance to the zoo
Polar bears
Wild animals
Two boys and a camel
We had a great time at the San Diego Zoo. Next time we’re in the area, we’re going to check out the Wild Animal Park (another place I haven’t visited since I was a kid).