September 7, 2010
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Sharka …
Over Labor Day weekend, Chewy and I took a short trip to Portland, OR to visit her side of the family. While we were there we stayed at the posh Avalon Hotel and Spa which was gotten at Hotwire prices. The hotel was pretty nice. The free breakfast was pretty good with a selection of banana bread, scones, fresh fruit, various cereals and yogurt. As guest we were able to use the spa, sauna or weight room if we wished. We didn’t actually know this before we got there otherwise it would have been nice to have tried out a few of the facilities. Really we were just at the hotel for the night because we planned on staying at Chewy’s brothers place but since we were there for his surprise party we couldn’t show up early.Chewy’s brother was turning 40 so his wife wanted to throw a huge surprise party for him. It just shows the
type of person Chewy’s brother is because not just family showed up but friends from New York, South Carolina and Washington state showed up. That’s a lot of traveling just for one birthday even if does only happen once in a person’s life. Her brother was extremely surprised. More like shell shocked (TURTLE STYLE!) and really appreciated seeing his family, his wife’s side of the family and a bunch of other friends in his house after work. Another nice surprise was a good friend was flying in from New York but couldn’t show up til around 11pm so we had to keep the birthday boy up until his friend showed up. It was a tearful moment. And then the rest of us went to sleep. I mean it was close to 3am for us. After a hearty breakfast we went bike riding around the waterfront. We all rented various double or quad type of bicycles to do this. There was a Green Beret dude in our quad and I’m pretty sure he was doing most of the peddling for all of us. I probably helped a bit but not as much as him. There were parts of my legs that hurt because they haven’t done that type of work in decades. Yes, decades. Still it was fun. After biking we ventured to the Chinese gardens, which severely mucked with my allergies. Though somewhere in all of this I must have caught a cold which led to a sinus infection. yeah! For dinner we went to this new fangle Chinese place called PING (or is it P:NG or maybe P|NG). It wasn’t bad. We did enjoy some of the dishes but since it’s a fusion sort of fancy pants restaurant the quantity of food was small. All in all it was decent. I think I prefer more authentic places where it’s quantity and quality at the same time.
- I’ve tried the lobster roll. Lots of lobster and pretty tasty. It’s just expensive
- I remember this couple at church said, “Don’t trust those people on Yelp, they don’t know good food”
- FRANK “Monkey-boy” CHO!!!!
- Is that a 2 liter in your pants or you just happy to see me?
- Shouldn’t they just be trying to get FIOS everywhere? Who uses DSL anymore?
- Now I know why my head was hurting the last time I walked past Gallery Place Metro …
- Hopefully Rhee stays but she is getting married soon so I’d have to imagine she’ll be going to the West Coast soon. too bad for the DC kids
