Fuzzy had some shopping to do at the local bakery – Erick Shat’s
Bakery (http://www.erickschatsbakery.com/)
which is next to our hotel. They have a
satellite in Mammoth too. She wound up
spending near $50 on various breads and pastries to take home (I picked up a
couple myself.)
We later headed out to the edge of town to Mahogany Smoked
Meats (http://www.smokedmeats.com) to
pick up some jerky and sausages. They
have an amazing amount of different types of jerkies. I wound up buying some Peppered Turkey jerky
and Peppered Elk jerky. They let you
sample before you buy. And it isn’t
cheap! But it’s a nice splurge. I also picked up some smoked bacon end and
pieces (about two pounds a bad, and it’s very thick cut pieces). Oh, I also picked up some buffalo and elk
salamis.
After stocking up, we headed out to the Paiute Palace Casino
(a local Indian casino) to gamble a little.
I played a couple of my favorite games, but still walked out after an
hour breaking even! Woot! Fuzzy wasn’t so fortunate.
It was still late morning, so Fuzzy asked to drive up to
Mammoth and check out some places there.
It’s about 40 miles north, and a very boring drive (it is the high
desert after all). Fuzzy wanted to take
me to this place she goes to with her boyfriend in the village there –
Lakanuki. It’s in a new condo
development, which is very nice and kind of swank – but it was dead! There were maybe 5 other people there other
than us – and nothing was open! She was
disappointed, but I didn’t really care as there are other places in Mammoth.
We headed back down into the main part of town and took a
side street and ran across a restaurant that offered lunches for 50% off –
sold! We checked out the menu at Rafters
(http://www.therafters.com/) and decided to head in. They had a cheese plate for an appetizer that
looked too good to pass up. They wound
up bringing us a very generous serving of four cheeses (and I forgot to snap a
pic). One was machengo, which was
actually very creamy – usually they tender to be harder. Another was a triple crème brie, another one
called Bermuda Triangle which was a creamy blue and very very tasty, and the
last was a standard Humboldt blue. They
also were generous with the toasts….I find that when I order a cheese plate
they often give you less toast points than you need.
For my main course, I ordered a pizza they had. It had salami, prosciutto and sausage with mozzarella. A very good choice. But the pizza was larger than I anticipated,
so I brought the leftovers back with me.
I give Rafter’s a definite thumbs up…and with a discount to boot!
After lunch we headed up the mountain to snap some photos of
what was left of the snow. They still
have some roads shut down, but we did get to stop at a lake and get some good
pics.
It was getting late, so we headed back down to Bishop and stopped
along the way to take some pictures from the valley floor of the Sierras as the
views were stunning.
When we got back to the hotel, we decided to go get a
manicure (for Fuzzy) and a pedicure for myself.
The first place we went to on Main Street was closed, as was the next on
down the block. The third place we tried
down a side street was open, but she was booked until 6:30pm. The last place we hit that was down the
street was West Line Nails Spa at 487 West Line Street in Bishop. They took walk ins and were available right
then. I went first and got my pedi – my “talons”
were in a definite need of trimming. It’s
nice to have someone else do the work and make you feel good. I had happy feet. Fuzzy got her nails down and was also pleased
with the results. The woman was so sweet
and friendly and did such a good job, we both felt she needs some talking
up. So if you find yourself in Bishop, I
highly recommend stopping in for a mani or pedi.
Coming back to the hotel, I power napped for about 45
minutes, then we started thinking about dinner.
We had thought about BBQ, but I really didn’t want a heavy dinner. We wound up walking over to the local
Japanese/Sushi restaurant a couple doors down from the hotel – Yamatami. It’s very authentic . We ordered some pork gyoza (potstickers) for
an appetizer, and Fuzzy ordered a sashimi meal and some eel, and I had the beef
teriyaki. You also get some miso soup,
and a salad with the meal.
The gyoza were very delicious, and I enjoyed the miso – it was
some of the better miso I have had. The
beef was grilled perfectly and the teriyaki sauce was tangy and just the right
amount of sweet. It was a nice meal to
end our stay in Bishop. Tomorrow we head
onward to South Lake Tahoe.
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