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Monday, February 11th, 2008While we were in India, we saw our share of poorly translated English. The bad grammar, the misspellings… but, we could usually get the gist of what was meant by it. Well, in one restaurant, we were trying to be adventurous, when we came across this item on the snack menu:
“Green Peace”
Well, [...]
Indian kids
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008When we were in Ooty, we took a hike of the countryside and happened across a small village along the way. The kids there kept bugging us to take their pictures and show them the picture as it came up on the digital camera screen. While the more urban areas of India are [...]
In pursuit of the Indian elephant
Monday, February 4th, 2008In Thekkady, we were in desperate pursuit of elephants. As soon as we arrived, though, our driver recommended that we go take an elephant ride. I was quite surprised that Oak, Nirav, and I could fit on ONE elephant…. who Oak immediately gave the nickname “Stampy.” We learned that elephants make only [...]
Christmas in New York
Monday, December 24th, 2007
Yesterday Oak, Alex, and I all spent the day in New York. It was mostly a culinary tour - where way too much food consumed!!! haha. We went to Max Brenner, 2nd Ave deli, Pommes Frites, Mamouns, and Jacques Torres.
Rockefeller Center was insane!!! But I was glad to finally get a [...]
Our Cosmic Tree
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007Oak proposed going camping somewhere in our new tent. My immediate thought was “would like not to freeze to death” so I suggested traveling south to Myrtle Beach and Charleston. While I was researching Charleston I came across the Angel Oak. It is so named not because a divine nature, but [...]
Segway tourin’
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007This past weekend, we went on a Segway tour of Wilmington!! It was a lot of fun but surprisingly more work/coordination than I suspected. The shifting of weight by leaning forwards and backwards, the steering… yet some people say Segways are for lazy people. Hmmph. My feet were a little sore [...]
Oak island
Sunday, August 26th, 2007Man, I don’t know what’s been going on lately but I sure haven’t gotten to updating the site. The first weekend in August, we had a great weekend with Mom and Dave at Oak Island. First of all, Oak enjoyed it because he was pretending that we were on “his island” all weekend. [...]
Visting our nation’s capital
Monday, June 4th, 2007A few weekends ago, Oak and I went for a jaunt to Washington, DC. Here are the pictures. Some linked highlights:
We finally had breakfast at Ikea. At $1.99, it was so worth it. LOL. Though, the french toast sticks were barely edible.
Our cheap place to stay in DC. We took [...]
Irregular
Monday, October 16th, 2006I really need to post in a more regulated time period… It’s become so easy to slack off, and then have TONS of things to post. Along the way, I forget to write about half of them… here’s a post that’s a few weeks late:
A few weeks ago, we went to the Western NC [...]
On the ridge
Monday, September 25th, 2006Oak and I attended an Oktoberfest party over the weekend -complete with homemade sausages, spaetzle, and beer, yum!
As I briefly mentioned in my previous post, we went along the Blue Ridge Parkway 2 weekends ago. It’s a lot like Road To Hana in Maui, sans ocean and tropical setting. Oak really enjoys navigating [...]
