Skagit Tulip Festival + Blogger Meet Up

My friends and I went up to the Skagit tulip festival a couple months ago and I got to finally meet Jane in person! The tulip fields was a good 3 hour drive including crazy traffic just getting there. We spent some time chatting, walking around the fields, taking billion photos of the field and soaking up some of that sun!



The fields were absolutely breathtaking. Leaving the fields was not. We sat in bumper to bumper traffic for over a hour. In a one lane road. Just trying to get to the freeway. We were all cranky, tired and famished. And I have learned that sitting in the third row of a SUV makes me incredibly sick and the drive home was just painful. Right Noel?

Kimberly's Cafe

I don't write too many food reviews on here since I mostly do it all on Yelp, but I thought I'd add this here anyways.

So, my friend Ro was still in town and she definitely loves her breakfast foods so I looked up some places that served brunch. Surprisingly, when I lived in Lakewood about 4 years ago, we've driven past this place countless of times and only now have I tried it. Upon walking through the doors, it smelled absolutely heavenly! Maybe it was their soup of the day, but that scent made my stomach grumble instantly.

I have been craving eggs benedict for a couple years now and I did have some when we were up in Leavenworth, WA but it wasn't that great. So of course, I ordered their eggs benedict and I think this is the BEST eggs benedict I've had all week. I love that don't drench my food in the hollandaise sauce like some people. My friend had their country beef steak with scrambled eggs, hash browns and a side order of french toast. Her beef steak was delicious! We've both never had it before so it was new to us. The french toast isn't anything spectacular.... I only took 2 bites of it.

Overall, for what we ordered, I loved everything about it! I would definitely want to come back to try their lunch and dinner menu. If you are near JBLM, I definitely recommend check them out!



Kimberly's Cafe
11126 Gravelly Lake Dr SW
Lakewood, WA 98499

253.588.8989

Oh, Life Stuff

One week my life was completely hectic and a bit sad. I'm talking about an overwhelming amount of sadness. It was pretty devastating. Then we went on this amazing drive couple weekends ago which I should be posting about, but I have yet to edit the photos that were taken from my iPhone. Ended up taking on another blog project with my friend Jenny @ Beauty School Dropout. Hubby went on leave for a week, went to Utah the next and yesterday at midnight, we are officially on leave again woohoo! The dogs and I are about 90% packed, Hubby has packed 0% and we are leaving Wednesday morning. To where? Hubby is dropping me and dogs off in HB (Huntington Beach, CA) while he goes to Vegas to visit his parents for a few days. I am over the moon excited to go home and see my family/friends and just chill out.



So, this past weekend, we kinda fixed up our front yard by taking out plants that the contractors put in before we moved in and sort of rearranged some plants and finally planted the flowers we bought the weekend before. Lazy much? Lately, the sunset here has been amazing and I was able to capture a few shots here and there.



It was a beautiful day, clear skies, big fluffy clouds and the sun was out. While trying to capture the first photo posted, which by the way, is this farm/field down the hill, across the street. I wish you guys were here to see it in real life! The shot above is of Mt Rainier peaking over the top of some new construction. On a really clear day, I can view Mt Rainier, Mt Baker and even Mt St Helens from upstairs. That really won us over when we first looked at this house.



Alright friends, it's almost 230AM here and still have some more packing to do. Probably won't be updating this much while on vacation, but if you haven't already, follow me on Instagram @ yenlinge.

Facing East in Bellevue, WA

I have been craving Chinese food that is not from panda express or a buffet and was so excited when a friend recommended Facing East. We came on Friday night and was sad to find out dinner hour didn't start til 5pm and we got there a little before 4pm! It was definitely worth the wait though.
We ordered the pork burger, oh-a-jian, beef noodle soup with thick noodles, this spicy beef dish my husband ordered and I got a milk tea with boba.
Pork burger was DELICIOUS! The oh-a-jian was really good too! Definitely brought me back to when I would visit my cousins in Taiwan. Beef noodle soup was... a little disappointing. I definitely have had better in SoCal! I didn't really eat the dish my husband ordered and it wasn't even that good. My milk tea with boba was good, but not cold enough. At least the boba was cooked correctly.
Overall, it was still a great meal and I wish it wasn't so far, but it's definitely worth the drive! I also saw on their specials menu that they had Yóu fàn which I want to try if it's still available!

Facing East
1075 Bellevue Way NE
Ste B-2
(between 12th St & 11th St)
Bellevue, WA 98004 | 425. 688.2986

Lazy Sunday

How was everyone's weekend? The dogs and I had a pretty chill weekend and a ever so lazy Sunday to match. It has been gloomy and rainy all week and was excited when Sunday rolled around and it was beautiful and sunny out! I am addicted to Instagram (add me! @yenlinge) and someone I am following posted a Sonic strawberry cream slush and I just had to go try it yesterday. Aside from the looooong line, it was definitely worth it. It tastes just like a strawberry milkshake, but not as thick as a regular one. SOSOSO good! And since the weather was gorgeous, I decided to whip out my lomography camera my husband bought me awhile ago. I think I finished the roll, but we'll see when I eventually get it printed. Sorry, I'm getting completely sidetracked because I'm watching the Bad Girls Club and these people are CRAZY!

My Life in Instagram

Life has been good. DH left Monday at the wee hours of the morning and we miss him so much! We did get a chance to have a great weekend with amazing weather (I think we had 3 days of sunshine!). Since DH had a 4 day, we went out to Outback for dinner on Thursday and on Friday we went on a hunt for a treadmill. After going to a few places, we ended up just getting one at the Lewis PX for $799. One of the best things about buying goods on post... No Tax! I think we ate out that night too... at a Greek place in Puyallup. Saturday we went on an adventure to Bellevue and Seattle and just drove around and explored. We also went to Home Depot to purchase our first lawn mower!! Sunday was Easter. We don't celebrate, but the weather was at 72F and we spent the day in the backyard playing with the dogs and DH doing yard work.

Anyways, I'll try and post a recipe soon. I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow and I hope it goes okay. I know I ate pretty bad over the weekend and tonight I had a caesar salad from BK... yikes! I should probably do dishes which I've neglected for the last few days and get ready to work out. Hope everyone is well :)

House Update

Sometimes it still feels like a dream... I can't believe we're homeowners! Who knew buying a house consisted of buying lots of house stuff. We always imagined ourselves painting the rooms, but we've only painted ONE room and that alone was exhausting. Let me tell you... it was a small room. A very small room. My friend Jodee has been renovating her house and I honestly don't know how she does it! I'm weak.

So, the picture above is taken from the entry way. We kept it simple so far and there's Frankie and Maggie's butt wondering what I'm doing. Frankie absolutely HATES it when I whip out my camera or point my iphone4s at him... he just knows. Then there is Maggie who loves the attention, but never sits or stays long enough to care that her momma just want some photos.

LOVE those prints I found at Ikea last weekend. Our living room area is all dark brown/black with orange, yellows and reds and these prints just fit amazingly.

Here's the living room area taken from the dining area. The one thing about all this furniture (ie: entertainment stand, table to the left and hallway table) is all the holes that needs to be filled! So far so good. I would love to fill in the holes, but with what?! What do you guys do?? I would also love to fill up more photos and things on that wall and try to add some greenery.

Don't mind the clutter and the huge dent in that seat when my butt was planted. Our coffee are just cheap ottomans we purchased at Wal-Mart back when we were living in Drum. The original Ikea coffee table we had was huge, but the bottom base board broke and when we got Maggie, her and her puppy teeth chewed up one of the legs. See that lamp in the back? LOVE IT! Recent purchase from Marshall's for about $35. Deep down, I'm cheap and prefer not to purchase super expensive things especially when sometimes these dogs destroy things and when we move (that's the Army for ya!), sometimes they mess up our goods.

Upstairs is still a mess. We did recently buy a bed frame, but we've been concentrating so much on the first floor we've pretty much neglected upstairs. Except DH's man cave.

That's all I got to show you for now. Again, sorry for dark photos. I used my iphone4s and then used a photo editing app.

A New Year

A complete belated post, but <b>we're homeowner's!!</b> After a long 3 weeks or so, our house finally closed on December 28, 2011. We just got our goods a week ago and I have been trying to unpack as much and as fast as possible. Just today, I finished unpacking our kitchen, though the kitchen is still a mess. Who knew we had so much stuff! So much stuff <i>after</i> donating/throwing away things.

Just the other day, I have decided to change what I thought was going to be a food blog into an everything blog. I haven't really cooked a real meal in months, let alone bake. Basically I'm just going to post whatever I want!

Alright, back to unpacking and maybe go check out this cupcake shop near my house. Hopefully a food post soon.