CasKat....we miss you Ken!

It is currently Sunday morning and I just finished coffee and a doughnut in what is feeling like my second family's home in Washington. My wonderful friend Cassie and her sister Lisa came home from Fresno State for the Mariners opening game on Friday. Cassie's blog from the game I am so happy their family loves baseball enough to make a weekend of it! This meant for me that I got to hang out with their family!! YA! I drove down to their house Saturday afternoon for an adventure! We love adventures and luckily her parents do too!

Adventurers are even better when food is involved. Toscanos was the destination. Toscanos Website. This seems like a new restaurant that her mom found in a magazine; it had good reviews and has cooking classes so it needed to be evaluated by us. We hoped into the car and drove away with empty tummies and hopeful expectations. The restaurant looks really new and had a cute Italian ambiance. We got a table near big windows and then opened the menus. My oh my, EVERYTHING looked yummy. The waitress was patient with us as we took perhaps a record length of time to decide what we each wanted. I changed my mind three times, which as discussed with Cassie's dad is like changing answers on a scantron and is usually not a good idea, but I was very happy with my result. I settled on a two pesto pasta with chicken and spinach noodles! When the food came we all were silent. It was so good. Lots of sampling and yummmm sounds.  

Starting with a Blue Cheese Salad.

Halibut with a strawberry sauce & pretty zucchini

Rosemary Chicken

Two Pesto Pasta

Fillet Mignon with amazing potatoes

The presentation was fantastic, ambiance great, food was delicious, and company fantastic. We looked at the dessert menu for probably 20 minutes and then decided to go for it! Cassie and I split a Creme Brulee! The last one we had split was on top of the space needle and we unanimously agreed this one was better! Her mom got a cheesecake and Lisa got a brownie! The waitress had told us the portions were big on dessert...haha she was not kidding but we did not really listen, perhaps on purpose. :) With full and happy stomachs we headed back to their house. It was still light outside at 8pm which means summer is on the way!

The happy eaters!

Back at Cassie's house we all got into the hot tub. I think a hot tub should definitely be high on the priority list for the next place I  live. So relaxing to sit and talk, look out over the lake and watch the Mariners game through the glass doors.

This morning we were greeted with doughnuts and Starbucks. Cassie and I are both blogging; reminiscent of our joint blogging in Europe. Here is the link to Cassie's blog from our adventures. Cassie's blog I will sadly head back up to Seattle this afternoon and she will have more family time then go back to Fresno tomorrow. At least I am consoled that her parents live here so I know she will come back to Washington frequently and I will visit them all again soon. :)