Sunday, February 26, 2006

Family Weekend in Seattle

My uncle, (which is a slightly misleading title for him since he's about 4 years older than me and we pretty much grew up together like brother and sister) and his girlfriend came and stayed with me this past weekend and I have to say that I wished I could spend time with family more often. We had a great weekend exploring, watching movies and of course most importantly...eating. I should say that my uncle's girlfriend and I had an enjoyable time; I think my uncle could have been just as happy playing video games for the entire weekend.

We started off Friday night visiting my new favorite cheap eats place, the taco truck in the Totem Lake Area of Kirkland just off the 124th St. exit. I've been there about 4 times now since KC's brother brought some tacos over one night for dinner and I'm happy he did. They offer the usual pork, chicken, beef tacos and burritos, but the one thing that had me excited was tamales and each time I've requested them, they haven't had them. So this past Friday, I asked the usual question regarding tamales expecting a no, but surprisingly enough they had them and at 9:30pm on a Friday night! We had 2 burritos, one chicken and one beef, C tasted both and said she liked the chicken better because the meat was moist while the beef was slightly chewy. I also ordered 2 pork tamales which were good, but my favorite tamales are still the ones that were offered from a vendor at the Bothell Farmer's Market. I have no idea how to find them during regular times though.