WTF is a yurt? As a late birthday celebration we stayed at the Treebones Resort. The uniqueness of this place is obviously in the accommodations. Perhaps we’ll stay in the treehouse next time. The surprise was the omakase sushi restaurant that was on the premises. We did stop by Monterey for lunch at Hula’s Island …
Category Archives: Food
Birthday 2022
This year it was quiet birthday for me. I woke up early and drove an hour east to photograph the sunrise, but it was so horrible I never got out of my car! Later we enjoyed a Japanese lunch. I didn’t learn my lesson from earlier in the day and tried to shoot the sunset, …
Russian Piano Concert
We found out that Jon was playing locally and decided to pay him a visit. The Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 is an amazing piece to view/hear. No recording allowed so here is a 2 year old clip. Needless to say we had dinner before the concert at A Bellagio Italian Restaurant. The food was great …
Spinning Bones
Date night at Spinning Bones. We finally used the gift cert, thanks Tami & Chris.
Bankhead 2022
Seems like it’s been a million years since we’ve seen Jon perform (Does he remember how to play?). So we jumped at the chance when he had a concert in Livermore. But 1st we visited Range Life for dinner.
Ramen Nagi
Jon-Michael introduced me to this new place. Black squid ink ramen, so good. He also introduced me to Uncle Tetsu cheesecakes.
Cloud Egg Brunch
After giving blood this morning I was in a generous mood so I made Sandy a cloud egg.
Edible Insects
I watched a interesting episode of Nova and they made a compelling argument for eating insects, mainly good gut bacteria. On the environmental side they make a much smaller footprint. Therefore I decided to give it a try by starting easy… ground crickets in a smoothie. Sandy said if I start chirping at night she …
1st Lunch 2022
Today we made our way up to Yountville to take Suka & Mariel to lunch at Coqueta, our 1st outing of 2022.
NYE Walk
We took a walk then ended up jumping on the ferry and had lunch at OSHA Thai.