On Saturday, we went to the Lams’ to warm up their new house in Redwood City. It’s a cute 3-bedroom house complete with a backyard and lots of indoor space. Koa got to come along and got to check out Kona’s new home too. They had Street Fighter for Wii with arcade controllers for a true retro experience. Congratulations to Jen, Kevin, and Kona!!
Here are the photos.
I got to the airport really early this afternoon so I booted up the laptop and discovered that PHX offers free wireless internet! Woohoo! They call themselves the Friendliest Airport and this certainly has me agreeing with them.
I also must compliment Southwest Airlines’ new gates complete with workstations with plugs. My macbook as a broken battery that doesn’t hold more than 5 minutes of charge so this is certainly a lifesaver. I have a bunch of homework to grade and I’m hoping to get through them all before I board my plane in 2 hours.
Anyway, I learned some new things in my 2-day course this weekend but the best part was just hanging out and catching up with my old friend and co-worker Elaine. Whenever I hang out with her I miss Irvine.
OK, back to grading papers!
On Sunday evening, two thirds of Roebling got together for an extra special Sunday Supper. G and Dena traveled across the country to spend Thanksgiving on the west coast and they brought their little guy Andersen.
He’s only 6 weeks older than Jack so it was really fun to watch the two of them play side-by-side.
Ryan prepared a standing rib roast with yorkshire pudding and we brought over mashed potatoes and creamed corn. In fact, I made Lawry’s creamed corn from a recipe I found on the interwebs!! Yum yum!
We all sat around the table eating off of the Sokol-Juns’ bone china wishing that Joel and Tob were also there. It was so nice to catch up with old friends over good food. It definitely a pleasant way to end my Thanksgiving weekend.
Here are the rest of the photos.
On Sunday, we took Muni across town to check out Eleen’s booth at Bazaar Bizarre. Her booth was in the corner but she managed to get quite a bit of traffic.
Of course, her bags and accessories were oh so yummy and we were all very excited for her.
It was fun walking around and checking out all the other booths too.
There was a booth that featured plush pork products and another that sold plush human organs.
I came home with a couple Christmas gifts and picked up my very own Big Lug too. Yay! I love it!
Great job, Eleen!! And congratulations on another successful event! For a closer look at her products, go to eleen.com.
Here are photos from our afternoon of craft browsing and burger eating.
Thanksgiving was spent in SF this year, which initially bummed me out but ended up being almost as satisfying. Jes made his annual feast and I always find it endearing when I see Jes sitting in front of the oven spying on his precious turkey.
We had the Masayas over this year and they came with Smush and Diesel. Koa had a good time having company around and being able to enjoy the bounty of treats that were handed out that evening. One thing that I couldn’t get over was how Diesel looked so much like Pepsi. The most familiar to me was his black head and little splotch of white on top. He was just as cuddly but since he’s an indoor dog, he didn’t have that distinct stinkiness that Pepsi had. I guess that’s a good thing. Rob and Kelly take very good care of him. It just made me miss all my doggies who have now passed.
Some people get giddy around movie stars but I get all distracted when I see a famous chef wandering around his restaurant. We had dinner with Yoon (in town for the weekend) at Incanto, which is where Chef Cosentino cooks. He’s the dude who competed on Iron Chef and known for his ability to turn tuna hearts and calf kidneys into a 5-star dish. Well, we weren’t very adventurous last night but the food was still very tasty. Midway through the dinner I noticed the chef wandering around the dining room and hanging out at the bar and couldn’t help staring.
That same evening as I was waiting for my Muni train, I could have sworn that Jamie, of this season’s Top Chef NY, was standing right next to me waiting for her train too. Just a few months ago I was having drinks at Orson and saw Chef Faulkner (another Iron Chef competitor) wandering around her restaurant. Living in SF is so much fun for a little foodie like me!
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