Saturday morning I made a kickass breakfast- home fries sizzling in the cast iron skillet and a big “clean out the fridge” scramble with zucchini, parmesan, asparagus, cheddar and lots of fresh herbs, and toast and fruit.  I should have taken a picture, but we ate everything before I thought of it.  It probably tasted better than it looked.

I spent the afternoon running at Seward Park while Mike logged hours.  Seward Park is fantastic- It juts out into Lake Washington so you get really pretty water views the whole time you run around the 2.5 mile loop that acts as the perimeter of the park.  It was a great place to run to get ready for Beat the Bridge.  Now if I could only run faster.

That night I finally relented and agreed to go watch Fast and Furious with Mike.  Obviously, this isn’t my type of movie, but when you love somebody, sometimes you just have to suck it up and do things they enjoy, like watch movies about modified cars that star Vin Diesel.  As expected, it was terrible.  Thank god that I can knit in the dark.  Sadly, Mike had innocently been hoping that it would be as amazing and kept talking about how disappointed he was for the rest of the night.

The movie was the first epic fail.  The second one happened while we were leaving the theater- I had left the actual theater, in which we had sat pretty much dead center, and was in the lobby when I felt a sudden tug on my purse.  Confused and tired, I turned around and saw 5 teenagers laughing at me and holding some gray yarn.  Evidently I had left the ball of yarn in the seat.  Mike turned around, realized what happened and rolled his eyes at me while I had to gather my yarn, all the way back to our seats, in the face of snickers from 4 more groups of people leaving the theater.

Thankfully Sunday was free of any embarrassing moments.  It was, however, full of rain.  Well, at least it’s starting to get a bit warmer, kind of.  At least it’s starting to LOOK like spring, thanks to the garden behind our house getting all bloomy again:

Yay for green things!

Since it was Easter, we figured the Ballard Farmer’s Market wouldn’t be as crowded as usual, so we decided to make a produce run and stocked up on some of the last apples of the season.  I got a free breakfast thanks to all of the delicious fruit and cheese samples that I devoured- I am totally that person who goes for seconds on free samples.  It’s embarrassing and I’m sure that all artisan cheesemakers in Washington hate me for it, but seriously, what kind of person passes up free cheese?

Mike had breakfast at the market too, but not in the form of free samples.  Instead, he started the morning off with a hot dog with cream cheese, ketchup and onions from Dante’s Infernal Dogs.  Dante’s is famous for offering cream cheese as a condiment.  Mike was hesitant, but decided to be brave.  This turned out to be a good decision, because right after he wolfed down the hot dog, he went back to try their sausage dog.

(um, I took a picture of Mike and the hot dog but he hated it so much that he told me he’d buy me something at anthropolgie.com if I didn’t post it.  So I’m getting a new sweater instead.)

Yeah, he ate 2 hot dogs in 10 minutes.  Then he texted some of his friends back home to tell them how awesome hot dogs are with cream cheese.  He gets really excited about new hot dog discoveries.

Back home, Mike spent more time working and I spent most of the day cooking.  I’ve been fairly successful in making food that is more leftover friendly lately, so in trying to keep to that trend, I’ve been trying to make food on the weekends that can double as dinners and lunches during the rest of the week.  Today I made a giant crock pot full of Mango Chicken Curry.  I have no idea how it tastes because it’s still cooking, but it smells delicious.  For tonight’s dinner, I got brave and tried to make some Vietnamese food- Tom Rim, which is basically shrimp stir-fried with shallots, garlic, chili peppers and a sauce made of caramel and fish sauce.  It sounds weird but it is freaking delicious- all salty and sweet and spicy and happy. Again, I should have taken a picture, but I forgot.

So that was our Easter.  Not very Easter-like at all- we went to a farmer’s markets and ate hot dogs instead of going to church and hunting for eggs- but a nice Sunday nonetheless.