we were told Redhook was pretty {the place-not the brewery-which is now in new york-ish} but we didn't believe them. we tried to find it numerous times... just to end up at ikea {which is fine} but we wanted to see the cute shops and the waterfront and the broken down trolly...
well we found it! we went to the redhook harvest festival and got lost trying to find it and in the process... ENDED UP IN THE PRETTY PART OF REDHOOK!! i was so happy - you don't even know! i'm still so happy!
so know we know: all the cute cafes, wine shops and boutiques are on Van Bront ave. and all the side streets off of Von Bront are little cobble stone roads. i want to live on coffey street. and if you just walk down von bront, do you know where you end up? the waterfront! it's a beautiful thing.
pretty cool huh
so we made it to the Redhook community farm where the harvest festival was... and decided it would have been alot better if it wasn't across the street from IKEA. but it was still fun. full of families and hipsters and urbanites oh my.
i got corn on the cob from RICE. it comes covered with mayo and cheese and something else but i wasn't brave enough for that so i got it plain. it was sooo good and sweet. Rice is a very hip place- lots of tofu and unrecognizable things on their menu. i got matches from them too {ps: i'm a pyromaniac now - goodbye to the girl who was afraid of fire - hello to the one that just likes to watch things burn}
the farm has chickens on it. my favorite one was the one that looked like a monarch butterfly - i couldn't pet it though because only four people were aloud in the coop at once... and kids get dibs {they don't put that on the sign though} and there were bunnies too.
we shared some cider. it was sooo good! mitch said it's,
"the best cider i can recall - but i can't commit to the best cider ever"i don't know the cider was pretty good - it had chunks of apple in it and everything - but mitch made a really really really good cider when we were living in Ballard {that's my top pick} and i think even the cider we had at the apple orchard was better.
we are now officially cider connoisseurs. check it.
leaving Redhook and heading back to the slope we met up with drew and anna at Pacific Standard to catch the Cal game. i had an alternate agenda - i wanted to play settlers of catan - and i figured i could wait out the game {what?! it's not like they're the cougs and football can be boring if you don't care}
but the game was going so badly {they were playing USC - it wasn't going to go good} so we got to play settlers WHILE the game was going on. ROCK ON! super fantastic.
