We decided to find the Farmer's Market on Post Office Street, which is run every Sunday, rain or shine. As we got a little north of 61st Street we noticed a long line of orange cones blocking the right hand lane and by the time we reached 25th Street there was a huge traffic jam due to the Santa Run half marathon. We finally turned around and went down 27th street checking at each crossing for the barriers and police. Eventually we found one street which was open with police directing traffic so that we could get north of 25th and we took it!
Breakfast at Denny's and then shopping. You can not take me shopping hungry, as Mike has discovered the hard way. On the way back to the Farmer's Market, we encountered the 5K people who's activity started about an hour later than the marathon. Goodness!!!
The Farmer's Market is small but had a good variety of choices. They even had a small band providing music while we shopped. We bought 2 pounds of fresh tomatoes, homemade salsa verde, homemade lavender lemon jam, and 1 and 1/2 loaves of this wonderful sourdough bread. The baker grinds his own grains and uses the best products he can find. He provides tastings and tells you exactly why he made the choices he made. We ended up sharing a loaf of plain sourdough with another lady who said she just couldn't eat a whole loaf by herself and then bought my selection of black olive sourdough. Next week we will buy Mike the Italian blend sourdough. He says it has a very good nose.
It was time to run the gauntlet again and head up to Wharf Street for Katie's Seafood. Traffic was still a mess but Mike was determined. When we walked into the place, we were both overjoyed. They have an L shaped display of the night's catch laid out on ice. First stop was the shrimp. A pound of jumbo @ $11. We next zeroed in on the lone dorado (mahi mahi) but decided it was too much fish for 2. Our clerk immediately offered to filet half of it for us because someone would buy the other half later in the day. We were set to buy some grouper or snapper (they have each whole and will clean/filet them before you) until we saw their beautiful yellow fin tuna. We are having 2 one inch thick seared tuna steaks tonight for dinner. We bought 4 meals of fish for $50 which is a bargain. It is pricy to eat out in a tourist town where our average meal has been around $60 and we are still looking for the local hangouts. I know this will be a weekly run for us, just never on Sunday again.
We had a little help from a local when picking out our fish! They give all of their scraps to the pelicans so this guy was just a bit impatient and came inside for a snack.
When we left Katie's we wanted to avoid the runners so I thought it would be best to head south along the harbor until we got to a traffic light and then we could drive cross island to Seawall. Last BIG MISTAKE of the day!! Did you know that both Royal Caribbean and Celebrity have cruises arriving/leaving Galveston every Sunday???? We found that out the hard way. Everyone on those 2 HUGE ships was trying to wrangle luggage and each other across the street. What a mess!
We have made the executive decision to stay home on Saturday and Sunday thru our stay. We can shop mid-week during our explorations. It is nice to have that option.
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