(originally posted on my blog at the original groupee.com social networking site.)i was thrilled to find out last week from two of my closest "advisors" that "it never rains in Sequim", especially since forecasts for Seattle called for 5 very rainy days. we were definitely looking forward to some sunshine.
my well-intentioned advisors were wrong. (see photo.) it spit gently most of the day on saturday, and then certainly more heavily on sunday. i think the locals were looking at me funny. "why is that girl wearing capris and a sleeveless shirt? doesn't she know it's raining?" i felt like i should be wearing a sign: "it's ok. i'm from seattle." but the sun did indeed show itself - at approximately 1pm on sunday, just as we were leaving Sequim.
so, where did i leave off... ah yes - after the lavender farms. we had lunch at a little cafe with zero atmosphere that served a mean reuben sandwich (not as good as matt's, but still, pretty decent). then it was an obligatory stop at the local scrapbook store, and a walk through the saturday farmer's market and some of the local shops before heading back to our hotel to nap before dinner (it IS a vacation after all).
the local casino was smaller than expected, but i'm easily overwhelmed so it was "cozy". matt got to try his hand at real poker tables (scary), and we played a little roulette. their buffet dinner had a fabulous salad bar, and a chef cooking made-to-order pasta. he whipped up a tasty crab in alfredo on penne for me, and even taught me that you should never use parmesan on seafood because it can taste "foul". instead, he used lemonjuice and tarragon. it was fabulous.
you know it's a bad sign when the girl at the coffee shop in another part of the state says "you guys are here alot. would you like a punch card?"... (for the record, we'd only been their twice - but she was there both times.) sunday morning, desperate for something other than the meager fare served in the hotel continental breakfast, we headed out to hurricane coffee co. to try a lavender latte. very sweet. not at all what i was expecting. not as good as the lavender ice cream. but at least i can say i tried it.
then it was back to the hotel to mollify matt's need for one more dip in the pool. we found ourselves wishing we had one more day - not having had a chance to drive out to the nearby Hurricane Ridge or Lake Crescent on our little trip. oh well, it was raining anyway...
we packed up, checked out and headed back into town. i needed to buy myself something pretty (other than scrapbook supplies) to remember our weekend by. after wandering through a few stores, i finally found it - a soldered pendant with an illustration of a lavender field on one side, and lavender blooms on the other. perfect. the storeowner told me that the artist makes these especially for Sequim gift shops, so i wouldn't find them anywhere else in the world. yay!
we knew we needed lunch before we left town, so we stopped at another cafe that, one would assume by it's name, appeared to offer seafood dishes. nope. not unless you consider a caesar salad with little salad shrimp to be fresh seafood... eeehh.
so we determined to make up for lunch with a stop at "coneheads", the most unusual little drive-through ice cream and espresso stand i've ever seen, and then thoroughly embarrassed ourselves by stopping to take a picture. (how could we not?!) then it was time to get on the road and head home...
Sequim was certainly a lovely place to spend the weekend. it was nice not to have any obligations - we were free to do what we wanted, which is not something we often get to experience these days. more than once, we caught ourselves saying "i could retire here." but then, i say that about every little place we visit. the way matt figures it, we'll have to spend 2 years "retiring" in every little town we've enjoyed just to keep up with ourselves...
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