It's a Sparkle Boat Party

A couple of weekends ago we were invited to celebrate July birthdays with a Sparkle Boat Party on Lake Washington in Seattle. We love boat rides and the bay views they offer, so naturally we sparkled up and hopped on for a 3-hour tour of the lake which started just as the sun set over the Olympic Mountains. Seattle never looked so nice.

There were so many houseboats.

It's a Sparkle Boat Party!

The next morning we headed out for a Venezuelan hangover cure at Latin American restaurant Mojito.

The bright and cheery restaurant offers an oxtail soup available only on Sundays to help with hangovers. Even though none of us were hungover we were ready for that delicious rich herby soup.

Mojito offered up all the great snacks from Latin America/Caribbean also, including fried yucca (with an overpowering garlic sauce), tostones (flatten deep fried plantains) and arepas (similar to a gordita, made out of cornmeal and layered like a torta).

We ordered a grilled fish plate, the pork plate and a couple fried fish plates. The grilled fish was seasoned with cinnamon and some tropical spices that didn't seem to compliment the fish very well, but it may have been because the fish wasn't very fresh. However the pork plate was terrific, especially the dirty rice and beans. Oddly enough the beans had very little flavor, but were the absolute perfect consistency. The rice, which we suspect was cooked in the water the beans soaked in, was light and starchy, and again with little flavor and mostly texture which accompanied the flavorful pork really well.

Oh Mojitos we'll be dreaming of your limeade-like caipirinhas all summer long!