Date Night at Costco!

I’m sure many of you are thinking that Julian and I have been together for WAY too long if my idea of a hot date is grocery shopping. One can always put twists into any mundane activity. We had to get some provisions for home and for the annual Spiediefest the following night.
Our errands started at the Everest Kitchen. This is an Indian-Tibetan-Nepalese restaurant that recently moved to a new location in the Lake Forest Park Town Center. This is a welcome addition, since the only other ethnic restaurants in this shopping center that contains 90% of the businesses in town (not to mention the post office and municipal offices) are in the food court next to Third Place Books. Everest Kitchen also wisely chose a location right next to the Lake Forest Bar and Grill, to snap up people who didn’t want to wait for a table.
After a meal of goat curry and mango chicken, it was off to Costco. We were in need of paper products, cereal, raspberries, and contact lens juice. We also got the leg of lamb for spiedies there. The sample folks were mostly hawking items that we would never buy, such as vitamin-infused bottled water. Even at Costco, this product is expensive and unnecessary. Just go to the vitamin section, buy a bottle of multivitamins, and wash one down every day with tap water. Save your money for the important stuff, kids, like ramen noodles.
Our final stop was Central Market in Shoreline. This is our go-to grocery unless Wegmans decides to establish a beach head in the Northwest. (Danny Wegman: Are you listening? We didn’t know how good we had it when we lived in Ithaca.) We got the chicken, beer, wine, and assorted other provisions for the week at Central Market. After a couple of healthy charges to our credit card, we headed home to get ready for Spiediefest.