Dicks and Ivars

Yeah... between eating at the Tides before seeing that movie (a place I worked and formatively shaped my pizza eating long before i was old enough to go in there) we have managed to hit all three of the key eateries that i can point to prominently.

Dicks Drive Inn has been a Seattle institution for 55 years or so. I used to hit the one up on Broadway for lunch when working at the Pine Street Pro shop. I took my wife there (before we were married) and she got hooked. We haven't made it there in a while. Got lunch yesterday. Not too bad. Not great. But it was cheap, fast and really not bad. The fries were awesome and the burgers not quite what I remembered but were still pretty damn tasty. I generally go for a couple deluxe, fries and a choc shake. Good stuff. No special orders. There are 4 burgers to choose from, three shake flavors, and one size of fries. Simple. And emotionally satisfying.

Today we hit Ivar's by the ferries. The walk up bar one. I got a tanker of chowder, my wife got the halibut and fries and the girls split some baby prawns and fries. The wind was blowing crazy strong right into the docks. We watched ships come in, ferries come and go and the fire boats riding the big swells rolling in through Elliot bay off of the Sound. It was great. The chowder wasn't anywhere near the level that the Tides had. But it was good. The Halibut wasn't anywhere close to the Tides but it was good. W/O the gourmet frame of reference from the Tides Tavern it would have been fantastic.

Ivar's is a Seattle institution, like Dicks.

I've got very vivid memories of my dad taking me there 30+ years ago. Same place. We'd walk up and get some chowder and it was always amazing to me. The big city, with my dad, eating chowder watching the BIG ferries. At that time the Southworth route was a small ferry only run. The big boats were for the Bremerton and San Juan runs. And to see the big ones up close was always amazing. Lots of good memories. Right up there with getting one of those stadium malts at the Kingdome watching the mariners get their asses kicked by the royals with my dad. Eating those malts with a wooden "spoon".

It was great. The snow's almost gone. And people drive so FREAKING SLOW here. That and they don't expect people to cut them off. Heck I drove "normally" and got loads of honks. Dude there was plenty of room for me to sneak in there - relax. Shit. But I've had way more share of HOLY SHIT is that cop pulling out to get me? Nope, Phew. Not that I was going THAT fast, hell I was going slow as far as I was concerned but everyone was going slower. Crazy drivers out here. Accidents everywhere. Man we even saw one little car clobber their front end into the back of a 2500 P/U issa crazy bunch of idiotic drivers out here. But then maybe I'm too accustom to the east coast style.

I like the east coast style of driving. Oh and the AAA maps say it takes ~3 hours to drive from Portland to Bend. That's not counting the snow in the passes slowing everyone down. Sheesh if they require traction devices (chains) to get over those passes then half the field wont make it to their race next year. *shrug* we'll see won't we.

We're back on Hawaii time again. Just like last year. Going to bed no earlier than midnight and getting up no earlier than 10am. It is really going to be hard to switch back to east coast school time on the 5th. I will say it has been nice hitting the reset button. Vacation has been long enough to feel like something. It is good. Going to be tough heading back home. But work is going to start right up into a tornado so i have that to look forward to.

Time to crack open another Fat Tire Ale. Going to skip the black and tan and save the porter for just a straight up porter. I had the Mirror Pond Pale ale last night. It was good.

My wife offered me a sip of her Coke and I declined, no caffeine. She questioned "No Tea? No Coke? no caffeine at all? ... Just Beer, Huh!"

Yup.

Just beer!

And well what goes well with beer? Jokes.

Here's a good one. An old one, but a good one!

Jane initially met Tarzan in the jungle, she was attracted to him, and during her questions about his life , she asked him how he had sex ?
"Tarzan not know sex" he replied. Jane explained to him what sex was.
Tarzan said "Oh,....Tarzan use knot hole in trunk of tree."
Horrified Jane said, " Tarzan you have it all wrong, but I will show you how to do it properly."
She took off her clothing and laid down on the ground. "Here" she said, pointing to her privates, "you must put it in here."
Tarzan removed his loin cloth, showing Jane his considerable manhood, stepped closer to her and kicked her in the crotch !
Jane rolled around in agony for what seemed like an eternity. Eventually she managed to gasp for air and screamed "
What did you do that for ?"
Tarzan replied, " Just checking for squirrel..."

It's bad but man it is funny.

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