Spring Break
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sarakat for the Shamrock. And I'll probably never get thru EVERYONE'S posts so if I missed a story tell me here!
Spring break road trip, ah the time honored tradition. Well I didn’t do it in the normal way and go somewhere warm and sunny (I’ve never managed to do that) . I headed to seeevil_little_dog. Let me just say it was the world’s most boring 400 miles. Ugh. I timed it to get to IN around dinner time since ELD has to work. Other than a minor direction hitch, I find the house no problems. We head to the hotel which shares a lot with the Hacienda, a Mexican restaurant. I warn you know most of this post is about food. (Mom even asked when I told her about it, is ALL you did was eat? Yes Mom). The Mexican wasn’t bad. We headed out to do a little shopping and so ELD could take me to places she knew I’d want to kill the day at because she had to work on Friday. Shopping by the way equals Barnes and Nobles. I’m ecstatic. There isn’t a bookstore for 100 miles here.
I can NOT believe how much manga is now available. When I started collecting two decades ago you had to special order it from a handful of places and it wasn’t translated. I went into overload and picked up the latest Fullmetal Alchemist , Howl’s Moving Castle and Godchild not to mention an FMA art book. We also go to the in-house Starbucks because well....set your faces to stunned, we don’t have a Starbucks for 60 miles either. The Cinnamon Dolce Latte and/or frappucino (I had both over the course of the weekend) is amazingly delicious.
We headed back to the hotel with the treasures...er, manga and lemme tell you, this hotel while convenient to all the places I needed to go was crappy on levels that had me and ELD laughing our asses off. The bedspread was torn, the bed tilted at one end, a mystery stain (site of the last murder in there according to ELD) surrounded by cigarette burns, enough cobwebs to pass as a haunted house, a bathroom with a no-light prison shower (I’ve seen better things at biology field camps) and a ceiling coming down and a heater that drowned out the near by railroad and airport. We watched a little cable, talked a lot of story then she had to leave because she had work (and thankfully her sister offered her house to us for the rest of the weekend!) Once I turned out the lights I noticed something you couldn’t before. Every time the heater kicked on, blue sparks shot out of the wall. OMG. I figured I was going to burn to death (since the heater was between me and the door).
The next day while ELD was working so I did my thing. Right down from the hotel was the Willard Library, so famous for its Grey Lady Ghost they have webcams for her. (Basement, definitely in the basement). I killed a few hours there taking photos (I’ll post them from work tomorrow) and reading more manga. Then I went out for lunch and found a delightful Greek place that was relatively inexpensive and gave me tons of food (LOVE Greek food). Did the mall and went back to Barnes and Nobles (got more coffee)
ELD and I were going to go out to the casino for St. Paddy’s. But by the time we got going, we were both tired so we just hit a bar for dinner (only so so and the only beer on special was Busch Light. UGH! Not even on a dare). I had a few amber bocks and we hit another Starbucks (got the marble mocha macchiato this time, not as good as the cinnamon thing) We just headed to her sister’s after that and watched some favorites that just happened to be on. Nightmare on Elm Street (Johnny Depp’s first role I believe) and American Werewolf in London and of course, worked a lot on the stories.
Saturday, we went with her family to the Crazy Buffet which was a fantastic Chinese buffet with a lot of more unusual stuff as well as the usual fare. I loved the mala and coconut chicken (got too stuff for the Mongolian BBQ), had some sushi and steamed buns with some kind of sweet egg custard in it and all sorts of other goodies. We hit Wal-Mart (I’ve never SEEN one this busy not even at holidays) to get film for her and travel snacks for my trip back. Also picked up the anime for Howl’s Moving Castle
Then we hit the cemeteries (we’re both into cemetery photography and all the great names you can find there) I’ll post pictures tomorrow. Lots of cool statute in Oak Hill and my two favorite names was someone who had Venous (as in blood) as a first name) and the poor guy named North Storms (don’t tell me funky names are a modern day thing. You can’t walk a cemetery and think that). Also went to the catholic church where apparently the families were richer than Croesus. They had something I’ve never seen before, half-life sized versions of the stations of the cross ringing around a burial plot for a few dozen priests (the nuns were off to the side) And the pollution has stripped the coloring away from them making them look like they’re bleeding.
We did go to the casino which was tiny. We both figured 20$ was the limit since a) we’re not rich, b) it’s tiny and crowded c) I’ve sucked in less second hand smoke at cigar bars than this place. I ended up winning 10$ at the nickle slots so I went and put it in the dollar slots and won 50$ so we decided that was more than enough for us and pushed off.
We topped the night off with, you guessed it, more food. The BBQ place was so packed that we looked elsewhere and settled on the Greek place again (I love Greek so...) For just about three dollars more than the regular meals, you could get the house special and eat like the Greeks (and Romans) do, in multi courses. We got fried pita and fresh pita (with cinnamon butter), then came more pita with hummas, tsatziki, melinzatta (eggplant paste) feta and some sauce that I think was Avgolemono (Lemon) sauce. Then came the traditional Greek salad followed up with Dolmathes (stuffed grape leaves) and Bifteki (meatballs) and then came the meal, Sgnofia (beef in wine) and gyro (lamb/beef) and then lastly baklava (cut smaller than I’ve ever seen it).
Back to the house for more story writing (yes we’re exciting) and watching the final episode of FMA (more on that tomorrow). Did more of the same the next morning then I drove home. I'm so disappointed to be back in the land of no cool restaurants
sarakat for the Shamrock. And I'll probably never get thru EVERYONE'S posts so if I missed a story tell me here! Spring break road trip, ah the time honored tradition. Well I didn’t do it in the normal way and go somewhere warm and sunny (I’ve never managed to do that) . I headed to see
evil_little_dog. Let me just say it was the world’s most boring 400 miles. Ugh. I timed it to get to IN around dinner time since ELD has to work. Other than a minor direction hitch, I find the house no problems. We head to the hotel which shares a lot with the Hacienda, a Mexican restaurant. I warn you know most of this post is about food. (Mom even asked when I told her about it, is ALL you did was eat? Yes Mom). The Mexican wasn’t bad. We headed out to do a little shopping and so ELD could take me to places she knew I’d want to kill the day at because she had to work on Friday. Shopping by the way equals Barnes and Nobles. I’m ecstatic. There isn’t a bookstore for 100 miles here. I can NOT believe how much manga is now available. When I started collecting two decades ago you had to special order it from a handful of places and it wasn’t translated. I went into overload and picked up the latest Fullmetal Alchemist , Howl’s Moving Castle and Godchild not to mention an FMA art book. We also go to the in-house Starbucks because well....set your faces to stunned, we don’t have a Starbucks for 60 miles either. The Cinnamon Dolce Latte and/or frappucino (I had both over the course of the weekend) is amazingly delicious.
We headed back to the hotel with the treasures...er, manga and lemme tell you, this hotel while convenient to all the places I needed to go was crappy on levels that had me and ELD laughing our asses off. The bedspread was torn, the bed tilted at one end, a mystery stain (site of the last murder in there according to ELD) surrounded by cigarette burns, enough cobwebs to pass as a haunted house, a bathroom with a no-light prison shower (I’ve seen better things at biology field camps) and a ceiling coming down and a heater that drowned out the near by railroad and airport. We watched a little cable, talked a lot of story then she had to leave because she had work (and thankfully her sister offered her house to us for the rest of the weekend!) Once I turned out the lights I noticed something you couldn’t before. Every time the heater kicked on, blue sparks shot out of the wall. OMG. I figured I was going to burn to death (since the heater was between me and the door).
The next day while ELD was working so I did my thing. Right down from the hotel was the Willard Library, so famous for its Grey Lady Ghost they have webcams for her. (Basement, definitely in the basement). I killed a few hours there taking photos (I’ll post them from work tomorrow) and reading more manga. Then I went out for lunch and found a delightful Greek place that was relatively inexpensive and gave me tons of food (LOVE Greek food). Did the mall and went back to Barnes and Nobles (got more coffee)
ELD and I were going to go out to the casino for St. Paddy’s. But by the time we got going, we were both tired so we just hit a bar for dinner (only so so and the only beer on special was Busch Light. UGH! Not even on a dare). I had a few amber bocks and we hit another Starbucks (got the marble mocha macchiato this time, not as good as the cinnamon thing) We just headed to her sister’s after that and watched some favorites that just happened to be on. Nightmare on Elm Street (Johnny Depp’s first role I believe) and American Werewolf in London and of course, worked a lot on the stories.
Saturday, we went with her family to the Crazy Buffet which was a fantastic Chinese buffet with a lot of more unusual stuff as well as the usual fare. I loved the mala and coconut chicken (got too stuff for the Mongolian BBQ), had some sushi and steamed buns with some kind of sweet egg custard in it and all sorts of other goodies. We hit Wal-Mart (I’ve never SEEN one this busy not even at holidays) to get film for her and travel snacks for my trip back. Also picked up the anime for Howl’s Moving Castle
Then we hit the cemeteries (we’re both into cemetery photography and all the great names you can find there) I’ll post pictures tomorrow. Lots of cool statute in Oak Hill and my two favorite names was someone who had Venous (as in blood) as a first name) and the poor guy named North Storms (don’t tell me funky names are a modern day thing. You can’t walk a cemetery and think that). Also went to the catholic church where apparently the families were richer than Croesus. They had something I’ve never seen before, half-life sized versions of the stations of the cross ringing around a burial plot for a few dozen priests (the nuns were off to the side) And the pollution has stripped the coloring away from them making them look like they’re bleeding.
We did go to the casino which was tiny. We both figured 20$ was the limit since a) we’re not rich, b) it’s tiny and crowded c) I’ve sucked in less second hand smoke at cigar bars than this place. I ended up winning 10$ at the nickle slots so I went and put it in the dollar slots and won 50$ so we decided that was more than enough for us and pushed off.
We topped the night off with, you guessed it, more food. The BBQ place was so packed that we looked elsewhere and settled on the Greek place again (I love Greek so...) For just about three dollars more than the regular meals, you could get the house special and eat like the Greeks (and Romans) do, in multi courses. We got fried pita and fresh pita (with cinnamon butter), then came more pita with hummas, tsatziki, melinzatta (eggplant paste) feta and some sauce that I think was Avgolemono (Lemon) sauce. Then came the traditional Greek salad followed up with Dolmathes (stuffed grape leaves) and Bifteki (meatballs) and then came the meal, Sgnofia (beef in wine) and gyro (lamb/beef) and then lastly baklava (cut smaller than I’ve ever seen it).
Back to the house for more story writing (yes we’re exciting) and watching the final episode of FMA (more on that tomorrow). Did more of the same the next morning then I drove home. I'm so disappointed to be back in the land of no cool restaurants
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Date: 2006-03-20 01:15 pm (UTC)That mala and coconut chicken sounds delicious. I've gained 5 pounds just reading this post.
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Date: 2006-03-20 03:41 pm (UTC)You should be getting something else soon too. In fact, I'm kinda surprised it wasn't already there. *kicks post office*
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Date: 2006-03-20 06:31 pm (UTC)Yes, naked butt icons are very nice. *pets the icon*
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Date: 2006-03-20 09:43 pm (UTC)And I found FMA osts 1 and 3, I don't think you or SJ have them, do you?
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