Daily Archives: May 29, 2011
Chinese and Kringle . . .
Today got off to a great start with more Landon pics from our daughter Brandi. He’s pulling himself up with no problems, and even bending over to pick something up without losing his balance.
This kid’s going to be walking in a few weeks. And then it’s look out!
And here he is putting on his best ‘tough guy’ face. Either that, or he REALLY doesn’t like that hat.
Breakfast was the obligatory coffee, along with blueberry bagels and cream cheese. Really good.
After that, Jan and I worked on trying to figure out our trip schedule for the next couple months. We’ve had to shuffle some things around to be sure we’re back in Vernon IL around the 10th of August for our family reunion.
Around 1 Jan heated up the leftover pizza from last night’s visit to the Pizza Factory. Then I went out to work on MY tail light problem. A little checking found that my tail light converter was working on tail lights and brake lights, but not on turn signals or flashers.
Some calling around told me that no one in the area that was open today or tomorrow had one in stock. So I guess I’ll have to wait until we’re in the Sacramento area starting on Tuesday. We’ll be there for 4 days so I should be able to find one and get it installed.
In the meantime I should be able to wire around the converter box to power the turn signals directly. We’ll see.
Around 4 Nick showed up bearing gifts. . . a plateful of Miss Terry’s delicious Banana Nut Muffins. The hits just keep on coming.
Bagels for breakfast? What bagels?
After working on the trip schedule some more we all headed out about 5pm to check out the Taste of China restaurant in Oakhurst. The reviews were pretty much 4 & 5 stars, and boy, were they right. And this was for sit-down Chinese, not our usual buffet.
We all agreed that this was some of the best Chinese food we’ve ever had. And just like last night, we regretted that we didn’t try it earlier, since we’re leaving on Tuesday. And the portions were so large we had plenty of leftovers.
But it does leaves us something to look forward to next year.
Even though he’s not much of a soup person, we got Nick to try the Hot & Sour Soup and now he’s hooked. Between Cappuccino and Hot & Sour that’s two new foods we’ve added to Nick’s menu. Since pretty much the only other two things he’ll eat are meat and potatoes, we’ve actually doubled his choices in food.
One thing kind of interesting about Taste of China is that we found out about it from the owner, Terry Nevins, who is also an RV’er. I saw a post from him on RV.net offering to send anyone his file of 160 recipes for camp cooking. When I responded, I noticed he was here in Oakhurst, and it turned out that he and his beautiful wife owned the place.
I just wish his recipe file had his recipe for Hot & Sour Soup. Bummer!
After a great meal we went next door to Von’s so Terry get some milk before heading home, but of course, stopping for cappuccinos on the way.
Beside the Banana Nut Muffins, Terry had also been baking another treat, Caramel Pecan Kringle with Butter Rum icing, and she invited us over after we got home.
OMG! How does Terry keep coming up with these treats?
I had never heard of kringle (except as in ‘Kris’) but it’s apparently a popular Scandinavian pastry,
How often can you learn something new and get to eat something delicious at the same time?
And she gave us some to take home. Thanks, Terry!
That’s about it for today. I reposted some more of our visit to the Washington coast last year.
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Thought for the Day:
Why don’t you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?
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Crabs, Pelicans, and Deer…Oh My!
Originally posted on May 21, 2010
Before heading out to lunch we stopped by the dumpsters to drop off our garbage. About 50 yards away we saw 3 of the 4 deer that hang out around the park.
Then we drove over to The One-Eyed Crab for lunch. This place is so good it’s the 3rd time we’ve eaten there in 3 days. My shrimp salad sandwich on ciabatta bread was fantastic. And of course the obligatory clam chowder.
After lunch we perused a couple of gift shops and then went back down to pier 21 to check out the pelicans again.
And I’ve never seen pelicans in a close swarm like this.
Getting back home, Jan sat out with Mister. While he explored the area, I worked on my on-going tire problem.
I installed the 2nd valve stem extension, put on the remote pressure sensor, and monitored the pressure for a while. Unlike the other day, this time I didn’t show any loss. After checking for a couple of hours I decided it was safe to top off the tire pressure, so I fired up the coach engine so I could air up the tire using the on-board air compressor.
Then about 5:30 we drove to Half Moon Bay restaurant for our last dinner with our friends Al and Adrienne. We leave tomorrow morning so this will be our last get-together for a while.
Tomorrow we head for Cle Elum, WA, about 195 miles away. Cle Elum is right down the road from Roslyn, WA, where Northern Exposure was filmed. We stayed here two years ago on our way to Alaska, and it’s a really nice area.
More tomorrow.
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