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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Well, the main reason we went to the mountains a few weeks ago was to attend the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games. What is this, exactly? Think of it as the Scottish Olympics. It’s actually also the largest gathering of the Scottish clans in North America.
Oak is part Scottish. So, part of […]
NC arboretum
Thursday, July 17th, 2008I have a lot of updating to do. This past weekend, we spent in the NC mountains where our main objective was to attend the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games (more on that later).
On Sunday we were getting on the Blue Ridge Parkway and just happened upon the NC Arboretum, so we decided to check […]
Garden geeks
Monday, June 23rd, 2008We had an exciting venture to western Virginia this past weekend. The main motivation for this trip was Edible Landscaping’s All About Fruit Day. Hoo ha! Well, Daniela and Oak were very excited. Belinda and I became somewhat interested when we heard you could eat fruit right off the trees at […]
Catering, Asian BBQ, and dessert
Monday, May 5th, 2008Well, for the very first time this weekend, I worked as a caterer. Oak’s coworker’s wife owns a catering business, and she needed some extra hands to help out with an extra big event on Friday. Oak helps out every so often working as a bartender at weddings and such, but this was my […]
Still alive and loving ANIMALS!
Monday, April 21st, 2008Man, sorry for the lack of April updates. I promise I’m still alive and kicking - just lacking the motivation to update my site. Sigh! Lately we’ve been visiting lots and lots of ANIMALS! Woohoo!
Two weekends ago we had a trip to the North Carolina Zoo. It was a gratifying […]
Mahjong
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008Well, last night, I learned to play Mahjong. I remember playing the solitaire version on the computer back when those were the only games computers could handle.. haha :) Anyway, that is very different from the actual 4-player game. You can even play it for money! Yikes!
The problem with Mahjong is that depending on who […]
NC luxury: A mountain cabin
Thursday, March 20th, 2008Well, Oak really went all out on our two-year anniversary with a surprise trip to the mountains! Best of all, he booked us an entire cabin for the weekend! Here’s a picture of the outside and inside:
We arrived pretty late on Friday night - we made the drive after work. The cabin was in Hot […]
Charlotte finds
Friday, February 1st, 2008Well, we didn’t see the Taj Mahal when we were in India, but we did just recently visit the Taj MaTeeter. For those of you without North Carolina roots, Harris Teeter is about as close as we get to a high quality, but not quite upscale grocery store. (Think Wegmans, or, as I […]
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 […]
Thanksgiving oh-seven
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007So, we had a nice relaxing Thanksgiving this year, and I finally have the photo evidence up. What wasn’t photographed was the amazing stuffing that we made from the November 2007 issue of Everyday food - nice and simple, made out of Oak’s homemade ciabatta bread. Yum.
Later that evening we went to see Fred Claus […]
