The waning hours of vacation
My flight leaves in 7 hours. I don't usually take an evening flight but it's nice not to be rushed.
Wednesday and Thursday were bright but cold. We went out for breakfast on Wednesday morning. The restaurant has been around for years. The food was good though going out to breakfast (my favorite meal) has lost some its pleasure since I can't have toast or hashbrowns or other breakfast potato or pancakes etc. (You get the picture.) The omelet was big enough for two meals so I had it for dinner as well. We just hung out on Wednesday. Hanging out cannot be overrated. We probably hit the market and did minor errands. I know I napped in the afternoon. That felt great.
Yesterday I had a noon conference call so we hit Target in the morning - I wanted to get ham and cheese for my dinner tonight - took the conference call at noon and then we headed out to Green Cay, another wetlands preserve. On the way we stopped at the Brooklyn Water Bagel Company. I had heard about this place on the podcast of The Splendid Table and was dying to try it. I haven't had a bagel in ages. Then we went to Glicks, a kosher market. My mother wanted to get some Passover foods. I was entranced. We have nothing like this in SLC. I don't keep kosher and lately, haven't kept Passover either. I don't eat bread, so in my life it's Passover all the time. But all the Jewish food was so cool. The Lox, in particular. But all of it. I know it doesn't taste as good as it looks.
Green Cay is another wetlands preserve. It's bigger than Wakodahatchie. It was around 4:30, so it was cool, but a lot of birds were out feeding. The woodpeckers were the best. Red-bellied sapsuckers. A green winged teal was cool as were the yellow-legs, which took us forever to identify because it was so far away. The red winged blackbirds are gorgeous. Heck, even the starlings were bright and glossy.
For dinner we went to the Cuban Cafe. My parents had been before and recommended chicken with onions. It was marvelous. As was the white bean soup. We've definitely gone to some great restaurants while I've been here, though I am pretty content with my mother's cooking. We figured out that she's made at least 11,500 meals since she's been married. So she's pretty good. Tasty, efficient, easy and healthy. No matter how many times I try to imitate what she's done, hers is still better.
Today I shipped home books and other items I bought that wouldn't fit well in my suitcase, printed my boarding passes, done laundry. Now I can read for the rest of the afternoon. My idea of a vacation
Wednesday and Thursday were bright but cold. We went out for breakfast on Wednesday morning. The restaurant has been around for years. The food was good though going out to breakfast (my favorite meal) has lost some its pleasure since I can't have toast or hashbrowns or other breakfast potato or pancakes etc. (You get the picture.) The omelet was big enough for two meals so I had it for dinner as well. We just hung out on Wednesday. Hanging out cannot be overrated. We probably hit the market and did minor errands. I know I napped in the afternoon. That felt great.
Yesterday I had a noon conference call so we hit Target in the morning - I wanted to get ham and cheese for my dinner tonight - took the conference call at noon and then we headed out to Green Cay, another wetlands preserve. On the way we stopped at the Brooklyn Water Bagel Company. I had heard about this place on the podcast of The Splendid Table and was dying to try it. I haven't had a bagel in ages. Then we went to Glicks, a kosher market. My mother wanted to get some Passover foods. I was entranced. We have nothing like this in SLC. I don't keep kosher and lately, haven't kept Passover either. I don't eat bread, so in my life it's Passover all the time. But all the Jewish food was so cool. The Lox, in particular. But all of it. I know it doesn't taste as good as it looks.
Green Cay is another wetlands preserve. It's bigger than Wakodahatchie. It was around 4:30, so it was cool, but a lot of birds were out feeding. The woodpeckers were the best. Red-bellied sapsuckers. A green winged teal was cool as were the yellow-legs, which took us forever to identify because it was so far away. The red winged blackbirds are gorgeous. Heck, even the starlings were bright and glossy.
For dinner we went to the Cuban Cafe. My parents had been before and recommended chicken with onions. It was marvelous. As was the white bean soup. We've definitely gone to some great restaurants while I've been here, though I am pretty content with my mother's cooking. We figured out that she's made at least 11,500 meals since she's been married. So she's pretty good. Tasty, efficient, easy and healthy. No matter how many times I try to imitate what she's done, hers is still better.
Today I shipped home books and other items I bought that wouldn't fit well in my suitcase, printed my boarding passes, done laundry. Now I can read for the rest of the afternoon. My idea of a vacation