Korean Spa and Italian Market

Got a little time off today and decided to to treat ourselves to a Spa. The Shangri La Spa offers wet and salt steam rooms, massages, saunas, and spas/hot tubs. The hot tub areas are strictly divided between men and women because in Korean spas they are nude spaces. We learned this when we first visited a Korean spa in California so we were not surprised. Here the door signs repeated the message over and over - I guess some folks were hard to convince!

After we were finished at the Spa we headed to Mazzario's Italian Market. It was lovely and well stocked and we got pretty excited at the prospect of wandering casually through the place, then having a relaxing lunch. But as I was in line at one of the counters I heard a guy tell another customer that they closed in 5 minutes (at 2:30). I thought (hoped!) he meant that just that counter but he said, no, the whole store would close in 5 minutes. What?!? I whined that we had traveled over 2 hours to get there and he smiled and said if I hurried I could probably get waited on at the various counters. So I told Randy and he made some swift (and excellent) decisions about what meats to buy while I scooted back to the pastry counter and picked up a dessert.  We also got sandwiches which we ate sitting in our truck in the parking lot. We got some great stuff and we definitely want to come back when we can spend more time here!

Maybe next time we will get some of their Porchetta to try!