Our First Outing of 2016

For the first day of the year we decided to spend the day in Gig Harbor {just past Tacoma}. Sydna and Nathan chose to stay home and be warm and cozy. We've driven through here a few times but never actually explored the area besides, Jacob was told that there's a good hamburger restaurant and if you know Jacob at all, you know he will drive even an hour or more away to try out delicious food.

The Narrows Bridge is pretty amazing. I hope we get to walk across again but hopefully we'll plan it for spring or early summer.

We first stopped at the Gig Harbor waterfront. I saw several cute stores and about a handful of restaurants.

Any public place that has a nativity scene on display next to their town's Christmas tree is a town/city that has my respect. I mentioned to Jacob that this is probably a fun place to gather for their Christmas tree lighting ceremony. It would be nice to visit during that time.

It was a very cold day even though the sun was out shining. There was ice on all shady areas and as we were headed down to the pier we had to turn back because the slope that lead to the pier was iced over. We would have definitely fallen.
Riley didn't start the new year off right. He came down with a cold on the day before new years eve. He was being a little sensitive than normal.

We then planned on taking Riley on the Cushman trail. We brought his new bike, he still needs the help of the training wheels. He does't ride his bike often enough to where we can have him practice balancing. However, the training wheels are set a bit high so the bike leans from side to side which makes him feel he's going to fall. As we continued with our walk he began freaking out and said he wanted to go back to the car. He said he was scared. You should have seen the big old crocodile tears streaming down his face. Poor thing. And because he wasn't feeling well we decided to leave. Oh, well. At least I know that the pine trees provide a lot of shade and I don't have to worry about getting all sweaty. I definitely want to come back and walk this trail again.

After our trail fail we made a quick stop at Jimmy John's because a simple ham sandwich is what Riley will eat then we headed over to this so called excellent hamburger joint. We've noticed that a lot of restaurants here in WA are very small, some too small to where you can't even enjoy your food and feel rushed to leave because people are waiting to be seated. I've said this before, I really do not like to eat at places like that. Anyway, We found the place.

Lol. A bit grumpy because he was feeling sick and he was starving AND he didn't want me to take his picture.

But once he had some of Jacob's vanilla malt he was in better spirits.

Here's my food critic thoughts on this place. Good thing Jacob had looked this place up because he saw that besides onion rings they have shoe string fries. If there's one thing I dislike regarding french fries is for them to be on the thinner side. So Jacob ordered me onion rings with my burger. He knew that I wouldn't have been happy with those shoe string fries. Although they were nice their service was not great, it took them about twenty minutes to bring out our food. I took a bite of my burger and I immediately noticed it needed salt so I had to add some then I took a bite of onion ring and I noticed that they weren't crunchy and that the inside felt doughy. I ate three of them but didn't finish them because I knew if I did I would have gotten grossed out. The one thing I really liked about my burger was the thick slice of pickle that they put in it.
I don't believe we'll be coming back to this place. Who ever recommended this place to Jacob was way off about the food quality. Let me just say that Red Robin burgers and onion rings are way WAY better than here.

Exploring Gig Harbor was fun. We saw several neighborhoods that we liked and the houses by the waterfront were so pretty. We also saw fairly new shopping centers that had most of the stores I shop at. We thought that Gig Harbor is a nice town. A town with that cozy feel. It's just too bad that it's far from Jacob's work and definitely further out from Seattle.



As I looked through facebook I came across a different s'more version. It looked good to me so I had to try it. You need half a graham cracker, a square marshmallow and then you cover them with melted chocolate and then sprinkle some candy cane crumbs on top. Let them chill in the fridge for a bit then enjoy. I took my first bite and boy, they are delicious! I'm not a big fan of candy cane and Jacob's not a big fan of marshmallow but eating them like this is so very good. I was told to make more. Jacob liked them much better than regular s'mores and I would have to agree. So from now on I'm sticking to this s'more version even for the 4th of July.