A few weeks ago my friend Jessica asked me and another friend to join her on a "City Girls take on Vashon Island" weekend. Aside from her full-time job at Wongdoody, she writes some freelance articles. Someone asked her to write about Vashon Island, an island that is a quick 20-minute ferry ride from West Seattle. I don't think I would need more than one day there but as you will see in the photos, we made the most out of the visit to the small town.. Here are my photos from this past weekend: Lorien's photos from this weekend: It was an extremely liberal, farming town where you can tell most people knew eachother and they were very nice to us out-of-towners. We stayed at the Giraffe Shop 's Guest Suite. Very neat! We had to try a lot of local spots for the article. We had an AMAZING lunch at MONKEYTREE Cafe. Everything sounded so yummy that we didn't even notice meat wasn't on the menu. Most restaurants used local produce, even down to the butter...