exploring edmonds

saturday we went to explore edmonds. now some of you are wondering, don't they live in edmonds?! well, yes and no. our address is edmonds, wa. but, we live in the mukilteo school district and the city of mukilteo has tried in the past and are trying again to annex our neighborhood into mukilteo. we actually have to drive through the town of lynnwood to get to "our town" of edmonds, how confusing. if you actually looked at a map of our house, you would assume we lived in mukilteo, but one of edmonds little fingers jumps around lynnwood and encompasses our neighborhood. so we saw it fitting we should explore "our town" this weekend! edmonds is on the sound and has a charming small town feel. it would seem every house in the town is positioned perfectly to see the sound and overlook the town square. the town square is shop after shop, eatery after eatery. they have clothing shops, bakeries, flower shops, book stores, toy stores, diners, deli, fancy restaurants, a cheese monger, kitchen stores, art galleries, pottery shops, on and on. shawn sniffed out the cheesemonger first thing! when we first stepped into the store, i kid you not, it smelled like a cow! i tried to keep the boys quiet, but i was having a hard time not gagging myself, but then i looked over at shawn, he was in cheese bliss!! so the boys and i composed ourselves. i parked the boys by the front door by a mooing cow (one, the cow would entertain them and secondly, they could get some non-toxic air when the door opened!) shawn found some primo stinky cheese and some hot salami made by mario batali's(he is on the food network)brother!! after the cheesemonger we window shopped and went into a few of the art galleries. the art was mainly by artists from the area, so the art was mainly of water and mountains. just for any of you wondering what to get shawn for his birthday, he found a piece of art he would like!! just let me know, it was only $4,000.00. ha!! so we scooted out of that gallery before grady tapped into his college fund to purchase some art! then it was the boys' and my turn to sniff out the bakery. we found some donuts we could not live without!! yum-o! after some lunch at engel's deli, he headed for home with full bellies--- time for a nap!!