Sushi!

Well this could have been a pretty depressing weekend. We were planning on going to Ketchikan with our friends Joe & Rachel to do some shopping. However, we found out when we went to buy our ferry tickets that the entire island had the same idea. It was booked full! We didn’t know this ever happened. Apparently Thursday was “Dividend Day.” This is when Alaska citizens get their checks for living is this amazing place. This year it was something like $1200 per person (including children). So naturally, people made plans for shopping in town – and we were stuck here!

This could have turned out to be the beginning to a very dull weekend. However, our weekend started out anything but dull. We completed another busy week of school. This week I supervised the state testing at the high school, which was a new experience for me. Everything went flawlessly but I was still ready to relax! Friday afternoon we walked to the grocery store on our way home to get stuff to make nachos for dinner. A nice treat after a long week. . . but we were in for an even bigger surprise! The sushi restaurant next to our house was open! This is only the second time that we’ve seen it open since we’ve lived here. So when we saw that open sign, nachos automatically got pushed back to Saturday.

The sushi place is small, there is nowhere to sit down – so you have to take it to go. Which is fine, especially since we literally live next door. It’s owned by the family who lives just across the street. The husband is a social studies teacher at the high school with us and his wife runs the shop. They also have 3 kids, which is why she isn’t open very often.

I was excited because the shop also has a lot of trinkets and art. It was fun to look at and we got a lot of ideas for Christmas presents. The sushi was delicious. We ordered three rolls; an avocado roll, kipper salmon roll, & a kipper salmon/sea asparagus roll. Sea asparagus was new to us, apparently they collect it on the beaches here. It was a really thin green thing – kind of like a skinny, salty green bean. And the salmon was cooked, FYI.

The rest of the weekend was pretty low key. Saturday was stormy, so we spent some time at school getting ready for this next week. We had nachos and invited a couple of the teachers from the high school over for a game of hand and foot.

We are looking forward to a trip to Ketchikan next weekend. . . we’ve bought our ferry tickets in advance.