Fred Meyer - Ballard

Yesterday, Chris picked me up from work and we decided to hit up the nice, big Fred Meyer in Ballard rather than the boring Safeway by our house. It was after work, so we were both pretty tired as well as hungry. We decided to grab something quick in Ballard so we could properly grocery shop without buying everything in the store due to our overpowering hunger. Well, if you haven't noticed already, Ballard has turned into quite the Seattle hotspot, so finding parking proved to be quite the challenge. After circling a few of our "lucky" blocks, we realized that we should probably just get groceries and make something at home.

We easily found parking at Fred Meyer (who would've thought!) and got inside to start shopping. However, we quickly realized that our blood sugar was too low for the two of us to actually function properly in the store. We couldn't focus on what to get or what we needed for the remainder of the week. After losing it a few times and snapping at each other in front of perfect strangers, we decided to just go to Hale's Brewery next door and then come back and start over. Problem was, we had successfully found a few items and they were already lying in the cart. We didn't want to risk a delay with putting things back (we had made a food decision and had to stick with it!), so we left the cart in the produce section. It looked so sad, sitting there with its bag of apples and bunch of bananas. But we had to say our goodbyes and were sure that someday the cart would understand.

We made it to Hales and ate a wonderful dinner (they didn't have pumpkin beer, but that's okay). About an hour later, we headed back to the Fred Meyer and low and behold, our little cart with our two items was sitting in the exact same spot, waiting for us. What a great welcome! Thanks Fred Meyer.