These are some very nice polaroids of dirty people from all around the country.
Friday, July 28, 2006
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Chicago air conditioning
On Wednesday night what seemed like a minor storm whipped through Saint Louis causing major power outages. The next day was the hottest of the year. We had been planning a trip to Chicago for the weekend, but couldn't stand the heat and left a day early.
We didn't have much choice but to bring Ollie along since no one we knew had power and both Melissa's and my parents had been put on a boil order due to contamination at their water plant.
So, it was an experience to have Ollie the big clunky dog on vacation with us in Matt and J'aime's apartment where Wasabi, their cat, was hiding in the back room the whole time. We made the best of it, as you can see in the "Ollie in disguise" posting.
On Friday we went to Margie's Candies, a Chicago ice cream treasure, if only for their home-made hot fudge. Mmmmmmmmmm.
We visited another ice cream shop in Skokie that had some unusual flavors like Purple Yam, Jackfruit, Avacado, Halo-Halo (traditional Fillipino desert), etc.
We also experimented with beer floats after reading a Reader article about it. We made ours with Lambak framboise (raspberry sweet beer) and vanilla. It was surprisingly delicious. Even Ollie loved it, that's him clean up the beer float glass in the "Ollie licks glass" posting.
We visited an Indian neighborhood and Melissa and J'aime got saari's.
Mike had a party on Sunday that was a nice farewell for us.
Good food, drinks and friends. Mike spun some records and we all got funky.
We didn't have much choice but to bring Ollie along since no one we knew had power and both Melissa's and my parents had been put on a boil order due to contamination at their water plant.
So, it was an experience to have Ollie the big clunky dog on vacation with us in Matt and J'aime's apartment where Wasabi, their cat, was hiding in the back room the whole time. We made the best of it, as you can see in the "Ollie in disguise" posting.
On Friday we went to Margie's Candies, a Chicago ice cream treasure, if only for their home-made hot fudge. Mmmmmmmmmm.
We visited another ice cream shop in Skokie that had some unusual flavors like Purple Yam, Jackfruit, Avacado, Halo-Halo (traditional Fillipino desert), etc.
We also experimented with beer floats after reading a Reader article about it. We made ours with Lambak framboise (raspberry sweet beer) and vanilla. It was surprisingly delicious. Even Ollie loved it, that's him clean up the beer float glass in the "Ollie licks glass" posting.
We visited an Indian neighborhood and Melissa and J'aime got saari's.
Mike had a party on Sunday that was a nice farewell for us.
Good food, drinks and friends. Mike spun some records and we all got funky.
Chocolate-orange dream
Melissa made this wonderful cake last week. It's a Chocolate-orange layer cake with three layers of chocolate cake and two layers of orange cake, an orange simple syrup infused within and chocolate ganashe on top.
Monday, July 24, 2006
Friday, July 21, 2006
Charleston Trip
Damn, It's been forever in a day since I blogged.
This is about the trip we took to Charleston, SC to visit Katie and Sarah.
The stories are fading, so I'll just pull out the highlight reel.
This is the beginning of our trip. First stop, New Harmony, Indiana. This is the New Harmony "Labyrinth". But really they changed it into a maze at some point. It was still cool though.
Melissa and Lindsay in the Labyrinth Temple.
This is the visitor's center in New Harmony. I thought this was a nice juxtaposition.
This is the "Roofless Church" in New Harmony. It was very "interesting" in a different kind of way.
A depiction of God.
This is the real Labyrinth in New Harmony.
Melissa won.
Moving on now, this is Cumberland Falls, Kentucky. We stopped to take in the nice sight of falling water. Isn't gravity magnificent. We were a day too early to see the Moonbow. The only one in the Western Hemisphere. It's like a rainbow, but occurring from the light of the moon.
This is a Moonbow bug.
On to Gatlinburg, Tennessee. This is Melissa with the taffy man.
We were minutes from the smoky Mountains, so we decided to go for a hike.
Falling deaths have occurred. We just about saw some too.
However, we didn't see any bears.
This is Laurel Falls, the destination of our hike. The dude that took this picture almost fell off the rocks with my camera while trying to take this.
We couldn't leave the Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg/Tourist Trap area until we played some mini-golf.
Finally we arrive in Charleston, South Carolina and meet up with Katie.
We took a night trip to the beach the first night we arrived. It was kind of spooky being the only ones out, and it was very low tide so I felt like I had to cross a desert to get to the water.
Looking for stuff in the sand.
This is a crab that attacked us on the beach.
Scary Story: After the beach, on our drive back to Katie's we had to drive over this new bridge. It's a divided bridge, so each direction has three lanes. I was driving in the far left lane when suddenly I noticed headlights coming straight at me. At first I thought, am I in the wrong lane? Then I didn't think, I just swerved over and some crazy dude flew by going the wrong direction. I just about had a heart attack.
The next day we had a field trip to St. Helena Island to get a tour from Queen Quet of the Gullah-Geeche Nation.
The Gullah-Geeche are descendants of slaves who were put on the string of islands along the East coast to work. The slaves were separated from their "masters" because the slave owners didn't want to live on an island. So they were autonomous people who kept a lot of their African traditions. They stayed on the islands after the Civil War. Today they have duel citizenship, United States/Gullah-Geeche. They even have their own language. The tour was a lot of fun, and most informative. I had no idea who they were or that they even existed before that.
This is the Girl Scout group that was on the tour with us.
Queen's goat.
This is the finale of the Spoleto festival that was going on in Charleston. We had a picnic and watched fireworks.
This guy's in the middle of a war.
Spinning Katie.
This is the Market where Katie goes to sell her Jewelry.
Melissa kept jumping into my photos.
We went on a graveyard ghost tour. They told us a bunch of spooky stories and I tried to get some ghost photo's. I guess they were hiding.
The skull with wings. Predecessor to the cherub.
This is the Angel Oak. It is estimated to be about 1400 years old.
Good bye Katie. That's the end of our trip. We drove 14 hours straight back to St. Louis.
This is about the trip we took to Charleston, SC to visit Katie and Sarah.
The stories are fading, so I'll just pull out the highlight reel.
This is the beginning of our trip. First stop, New Harmony, Indiana. This is the New Harmony "Labyrinth". But really they changed it into a maze at some point. It was still cool though.
Melissa and Lindsay in the Labyrinth Temple.
This is the visitor's center in New Harmony. I thought this was a nice juxtaposition.
This is the "Roofless Church" in New Harmony. It was very "interesting" in a different kind of way.
A depiction of God.
This is the real Labyrinth in New Harmony.
Melissa won.
Moving on now, this is Cumberland Falls, Kentucky. We stopped to take in the nice sight of falling water. Isn't gravity magnificent. We were a day too early to see the Moonbow. The only one in the Western Hemisphere. It's like a rainbow, but occurring from the light of the moon.
This is a Moonbow bug.
On to Gatlinburg, Tennessee. This is Melissa with the taffy man.
We were minutes from the smoky Mountains, so we decided to go for a hike.
Falling deaths have occurred. We just about saw some too.
However, we didn't see any bears.
This is Laurel Falls, the destination of our hike. The dude that took this picture almost fell off the rocks with my camera while trying to take this.
We couldn't leave the Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg/Tourist Trap area until we played some mini-golf.
Finally we arrive in Charleston, South Carolina and meet up with Katie.
We took a night trip to the beach the first night we arrived. It was kind of spooky being the only ones out, and it was very low tide so I felt like I had to cross a desert to get to the water.
Looking for stuff in the sand.
This is a crab that attacked us on the beach.
Scary Story: After the beach, on our drive back to Katie's we had to drive over this new bridge. It's a divided bridge, so each direction has three lanes. I was driving in the far left lane when suddenly I noticed headlights coming straight at me. At first I thought, am I in the wrong lane? Then I didn't think, I just swerved over and some crazy dude flew by going the wrong direction. I just about had a heart attack.
The next day we had a field trip to St. Helena Island to get a tour from Queen Quet of the Gullah-Geeche Nation.
The Gullah-Geeche are descendants of slaves who were put on the string of islands along the East coast to work. The slaves were separated from their "masters" because the slave owners didn't want to live on an island. So they were autonomous people who kept a lot of their African traditions. They stayed on the islands after the Civil War. Today they have duel citizenship, United States/Gullah-Geeche. They even have their own language. The tour was a lot of fun, and most informative. I had no idea who they were or that they even existed before that.
This is the Girl Scout group that was on the tour with us.
Queen's goat.
This is the finale of the Spoleto festival that was going on in Charleston. We had a picnic and watched fireworks.
This guy's in the middle of a war.
Spinning Katie.
This is the Market where Katie goes to sell her Jewelry.
Melissa kept jumping into my photos.
We went on a graveyard ghost tour. They told us a bunch of spooky stories and I tried to get some ghost photo's. I guess they were hiding.
The skull with wings. Predecessor to the cherub.
This is the Angel Oak. It is estimated to be about 1400 years old.
Good bye Katie. That's the end of our trip. We drove 14 hours straight back to St. Louis.
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