It turns out the restaurant we planned
on going to really wasn’t Indian, which we should’ve been able to figure out by
its name, “Himalayan Restaurant”. Thankfully Himalayan and Indian cuisines
overlap one another quite a bit. We decided to share several appetizers and entrees.
Their menu was nice because they labeled which items were vegan, facilitating
the ordering process. We ended up ordering vegetable samosa, vegetable pakora,
and dal (lentil soup) for starters. I’m not a big fan of samosa, but for a dish
I don’t normally like, it was really good. Pakora on the other hand is my all
time favorite Indian/Himalayan food. Their pakora was excellent, awesome
crispiness and flavor! The dal was also really good; together we demolished all
of the appetizers. For lunch we collectively ordered: chana saag, tofu saag
vegan, aloo cauli vegan, and garlic naan. Even though naan isn’t vegan, I have
a really hard time passing it up. I enjoyed everything we ordered, especially
the chana saag. The service was also superb!
Vegetable Samosa
Vegetable Pakora
Dal
Chana Saag
After lunch we walked around
downtown Windsor. We stopped at Powell’s Sweet Shoppe where they sell every
candy imaginable. To my surprise, I escaped with only a bag of sour jelly
beans. Lauren was really looking forward to visiting a yarn store on our
glamping trip. Oddly, we couldn’t find any yarn shops in Windsor. Luckily
though, we found a few on Yelp in Santa Rosa. So off to Santa Rosa we went!
We were planning on going to Cast
Away to look at yarn, but once we arrived we discovered a carnival was taking
place and we would have to pay the carnival entry fare just to look at the
store… at $10 a person with no desire to participate in carnival activities, no
thanks. Back on our phones we went in search of other yarn stores in Santa
Rosa. We found several, but after calling the shops to verify their hours of
business, we learned that they had either gone out of business or they weren’t
open on Sundays. Double fail! After more searching we located a yarn shop in
Sebastopol. Even though we spent the entire previous day in Sebastopol, we
decided to go back…the things we do for yarn.
It took us 20 minutes to get to
Balls & Skeins, but it was well worth the numerous phone calls, Yelp/Google
searches, and miles of driving. The owner was very nice and helpful. Lauren
bought two skeins of MadTosh, and I bought a skein of Nichole yarn in the “Janice
Joplin” colorway. I wanted to get something unique to Sebastopol or at Least
Sonoma County. I couldn’t find anything made locally, but I’d never seen
Nichole yarn before, so to me it was still unique, and I love the colors and
weight of the yarn!
After driving around Windsor,
Santa Rosa, and Sebastopol all day we were exhausted, but it was our last night
before having to go back home, so we didn’t want to waste it by napping. Once
we got back to the campsite we started a campfire. We used the remainder of the
Duraflame logs the previous night, so we had to start a fire and keep it
burning using only matches. It took a few tries and a lot of matches, but we
did it! I found it worked best to gather a bunch of small twigs and make a nest
of them in the center of the fire pit. Using several matches, we lit various
areas of the twig nest until the majority of it caught flame. Slowly, we added
larger logs, making sure not to accidently put the fire out. It was a very
proud moment for all of us :)
Even though we weren’t able to
find vegan marshmallows, a glamping trip would not be complete without s’mores.
Because Marissa isn’t vegetarian/vegan, she still roasted regular marshmallows.
Despite the lack of vegan marshmallows, we made vegan s’mores with graham
crackers and rice chocolate. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to partake in any
roasting activities, but I still had a blast eating my chocolate! For dinner,
we polished off the rest of the bean and rice burritos and grilled the leftover
pizza from the previous day’s lunch. (The pizza was much better grilled.)
Day four of glamping coming up…
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