Pisa A trip to Pisa of course meant we had to take six million photos of the leaning tower. If I had a euro for every time I saw someone doing the hand on the tower pose, our airfare would have been paid for. This was also the beginning of the ever repeating theme of …
Category Archives: Food
Italy 2010 Day 2
Day 2 started out with breakfast made by Jimi. A simple egg & potato dish and a fruit platter… well he made it look simple. Pienza For our first day trip, we drove the clan to Pienza. This was our first exposure to the small meat and cheese shops we quickly fell in love with. …
Italy 2010 Day 1
Podere Monti After the stress and chaos of waiting for everyone to arrive, renting 2 huge diesel vans, ramming everyone’s luggage into said vans and driving for 3 hours, we finally arrived at our temporary home, a villa in the small town of Montepulciano. Podere Monti is a 7-room bed & breakfast and we managed …
Sunday
Today we dropped off Judy at her Burd Boarding facility as we will be on vacation soon. We then drove to San Jose to have dinner with the Nakamatsu’s. I tortured Kathy’s kat with my camera.
48 in the 50th
Made a quick trip to Honolulu for work. When I checked in at the Sheraton, they informed me that I would receive a complimentary upgrade to an ocean view room. My enthusiasm was quickly dampened when I opened my curtains. As usual I was only there for about 48 hours and worked long days. I …
Labor Day 2010
This year’s Labor Day celebration was a little tough as I was out sick the entire week before. We tried to keep it simple as we are preparing to go to Italy soon. Thanks to everyone for pitching in and helping. Also thanks to Jen for using my camera to grab a few shots. To …
Cecille
Today we visited Cecille to see how she was doing. Of course we had to eat so she took us to Vung Tau in Fremont. Been on this Vietnamese kick lately for some reason. Cecille insisted we try the avocado shake which sounded horrible but was quite tasty.
Norah Jones
Tonight we had the privilege of watching Norah Jones at the Greek Theater in Berkeley. This was the first time we’ve been to the Greek, damn is my butt hurting…wait I meant it was because of the concrete seating. Probably the most uncomfortable venue I’ve ever been to. We got there early and had enough …
10 years later…
Today we celebrated 10 years together. A decade of love & affection (Def Leppard ref). 6:15 rezzies at Pappo in Alameda.
Meatless Monday II
According to Google Dictionary, meat is defined as: The flesh of an animal (esp. a mammal) as food rabbit meat meat sandwiches assorted meats The flesh of a person’s body this’ll put meat on your bones! The edible part of fruits or nuts The essence or chief part of something he did the meat of …