unless it is posting random pictures or one of the many postcards we received from Spain ;-) Hopefully I will start getting a little bit better, but I've learned not to make any promises. MC and I were actually talking about it this past weekend and we are going to shoot for making at least one post per week (probably excluding the random pics or postcards). I think that is a pretty good goal. Even if there isn't much exciting to talk about in my life, I'm sure I can find something to at least throw out a little blurb about. We shall see.
So anyhoo, I've probably forgotten most of things that have happened in the past several weeks so I'm just going to do a pretty sparse recap. One of the notable things was the meal we had for Top Chef night this past week. I made
Cranberry Almond Chicken with
Beet Spinach Salad. Both were recipes from Publix and the chicken was frickin' awesome! It definitely rivaled the
cumin chicken with tomatillo sauce that I had mentioned before. Definitely a recipe that I will be making again. Pretty simple and easy too!!
I am sure that there have been plenty of other events going on, but they are escaping me right now, though, as you may have seen in one of the pictures I posted, I finally got my new office machine so I am still hard at work getting that all set up. I can't wait until it is all configured like I need and I can really get kickin' on some research!
So anyhoo, this past weekend was the Food and Wine festival in Orlando. MC, Lynn and Julia had all signed up for the 10k run associated with it even though Lynn and MC had been dealing with some injuries as of late. So Brian, Matt and I joined the womenfolk and made a fun weekend of it! MC and I left early Friday afternoon and met up with some old friends of hers for dinner. There were 4 kids running around and they were a hoot. Extremely entertaining and full of boundless energy! Dinner was wonderful and it was cool to just hang out, chitchat, and watch the kids run around. After dinner we met up with the crew at the hotel and crashed.
Saturday we got up and caught the shuttle over to Epcot. After taking care of a little "ticket misplacement," we entered Epcot and were ready to enjoy the day!
We met up with the crew at a small pub (yes, we started our day at a pub) and then moseyed on towards Paris.
Enjoyed some good food there then kept on truckin'! Snapped a pic of the girls while Matt and Brian stopped at a non-denominational beer stand.
then we moseyed on over to Japan where we saw...
pagodas,
 | crazy Japanese candy, |
good luck kitty cats (which Julia got one for each of us), | and koi ponds. |
We were doing a lot of walking and passed a lot of scenery so I had to try out some panoramas!
Most of the afternoon was spent walking between countries and then taking small rest breaks to regroup and continue consuming whatever we recently purchased (as Brian and Julia demonstrate)
We did decide to try out one ride. Not exactly sure what the name was, but it involved a boat and I think we had more fun waiting in line than we actually did once we got on the ride.
Though a boat ride through the dark did frighten some of us!
I was able to snap a couple of pics on the ride, but most didn't come out since I got reprimanded right after this one for using a flash.
We bolted through the movie portion of the ride and headed over to Mexico for cervesas and margaritas. Some of the local fauna enjoyed watching us eat, drink, spill drinks, and be merry.
Even Canada was represented, though last time I was there I really don't remember seeing quite so many totem poles.
While it is a simple picture, I think it actually sums up a majority of the afternoon quite nicely :-)
We were ready to wind it down a little bit and passed a pretty sunset on the way to the ESPN restaurant for dinner.
We initially thought we would stay there until the Florida game, but after dinner we were all winding down pretty fast after a long day and decided to pack it on back to the hotel. Most of us ended up being asleep by about 9, which is the earliest MC and I have gone to bed in probably years.
The girls got up ridiculously early to head over to the race, while the boys decided to sleep in and watch my new favorite show, Plaza Sesamo. I think my Spanish would be coming along even better if I could watch Sesame Street in Spanish every day! :-) The girls enjoyed their 10k (as much as one can I guess), even though it was already pretty warm. They also got some pretty snazzy medals in the process!
While the girls were getting showered up and packed to head home, Matt and I decided to check out the hotel video arcade. The game selection was in need of improving, but we still had a lot of fun, even if some of the games weren't really made for full-sized people.
After the arcade we packed up and headed to Cracker Barrel for brunch then hit the road back to Tally. It was a pretty busy weekend, but I think we all had a lot of fun! Now I'm back in the office trying to be productive (at least kind of) before heading back out of town this weekend. Hopefully San Juan will provide enough fodder to spurn me to keep up with my proposed once-a-week posting schedule. :-)
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