Poulsbo and baked goods!

Our reason for staying in in Gig Harbor was to visit a friend of mine from Kaiser, Terry and her husband. We spoke by phone this morning and it turns out her husband went into the hospital last night with fairly concerning cold symptoms. After testing it turned out to be COVID. They also have a roommate who ended up testing positive for COVID. So my visit with Terry is pretty much limited to phone calls to see how her husband's doing.

Today we had planned to go north to visit Poulsbo and Bainbridge Island. Poulsbo is a very cute, touristy town, with a Norwegian theme. It is also home to a very well-known, 50 year old bakery, Sluys. Well known enough that there was a line just to go in and purchase some bakery items. We bought several and they were excellent!

While Tom enjoyed his bakery items I had a chance to walk the town in the shops. Lots of cute artist co-ops, galleries, home accessory shops, restaurants and clothing. The town was particularly busy because we were there on the biannual beer pub crawl which raises money for town project. So lots of people out walking (some were weaving a little, 9 oz. of beer at each brewery!) Many were in costumes or lederhosen or dirndle skirts, it was really fun to see. It was a beautiful day to be out, lots of sunshine! We also had a chance to stroll the harbor area, very cute.Read more