An outing ....

I'm supposed to be increasing my activity level every day - so I went on an outing yesterday. My daughter drove us downtown Bellevue to a spiffy new theater to see a matinee of Star Trek.

(One advantage to living in the Seattle area is the preponderance of Chihuly glass sculptures scattered about the area -this one right outside the theater).

The theater was lovely- wide, reclining leather seats (that I still found uncomfortable to sit on. Dratted lingering surgery side-effects!), incredibly entertaining movie. Fun company.

To further the fun, we drove a few blocks to the old downtown to scope out a couple of treat shops -

The first stop was Fran's Chocolates - lots of homemade, dark chocolatey goodness. The Laundry Faerie gave me a box of them awhile back and I've been craving their sea salt caramels ever since.

We then walked another couple of blocks down to the cute little French bakery - full of luscious pastries, chocolates and gelato. So many choices! Ack!

I came home with a small stash of deliciousness and promptly crashed. That was more than I apparently had the stamina for, but... did I mention sea salt caramels!? Worth it.