The plan was to pick up the turkey from Don and Joe’s meats after class on Tuesday, I would do a bit of grocery shopping then head over to my house and start prepping because I had the next two days off.   Well, plans changed quickly when on Monday morning we woke up and there was snow and ice all over the place.  We live on a hill in West Seattle so getting down it is nearly impossible when there is ice and snow….all…over…the…place.

I started checking the forecast on that Monday morning and I had to make another quick decision…..do I go to class and get stuck in Seattle for 5-8 hours and then make it home and accomplish nothing or do I just do my grocery shopping, hope the school closes, and move on with my plans.    Two or three years ago I used to work in Bellevue and we had a house in Federal Way…there was a snow storm happening while I was at work and my boss said, “just another hour or two and you can go home”.   Well, that totally f’ed me.  It took me 8 hours to get home that night and he even had the audacity to ask if I was going to come to work the next day….I hung up on him….and moved on.  I hate getting stuck in places so I ran around West Seattle trying to get everything that I could possibly need for gobble day.  There was one thing I couldn’t pick up yet……Mr. Gobbler.

I reserved Mr. Gobbler about 3 weeks ago from Don and Joe’s Meats in Pike Place Market.  They’re my source for duck fat and a few other things I buy on a consistent basis.  They’re a few blocks away from school so when I’m on my way home or just going to work they’re my go-to place.   I had a turkey ready to pick up on Tuesday and when I went to sleep on Monday night I knew I would have to figure out someway to get to Pike Place Market from West Seattle. Could I teach Blue to be a sled dog overnight?

Do I know anyone with a helicopter?  Could I just look up and see if the buses were running???? Right….

I gathered up some volunteers to go with me on Turkey Quest 2010 and we made our way to downtown on the King County Metro……free advertisement for The Orca card begins now:

(My dad, Mindy, sister, Dave!)

The bus was running on a snow route so it took about 5 minutes longer than it would have normally to get where we wanted….pretty awesome considering the day before the whole city was shut down and the roads were still really icy.  Another good thing about all of this is that we never lost power…it pays to live in the city!

We walked around, bought food, and then packed it up in our bags in order to carry it back home so I could prep for gobble day. Try to stop me from cooking?  Hahahahahahaaa, that was a weak attempt nature!!!  I had two back-up whole chickens ready in my refrigerator just in case

I just hope this time next year I’ll be in Spain or Denmark doing a turkey quest.

Eric