Saturday 3/12 - Sunday 3/13:
Bridesmaids Dress for Shelly's Wedding - Check!
Zombie Cake for Alex's 30th Bday - Check!
Great time with 'old' friends - Check!
Sushi Boat for Dad's Birthday Lunch - Check!
Then on the road to Palisades Park
Monday 3/14- Wednesday 3/16:
Welcome to Korea (kind of)... surrounded by cousins, working on my netbook in a little cafe during the day, drinking soju with TLF friend at night... definitely felt like being back in Seoul (instead of New Jersey).
Found the BEST bread at this bakery across from the Broad Ave H Mart... it's got walnuts and something green in it and it was addictive. Munched on that on my drive up to Connecticut on Wed.
Picked up Sherrie (not pronounced 'Sher -ree'ㅋㅋ) in South Windsor, said hello to her adorable parents, and got back on the road to Vermont. Kimbap was an excellent decision.
Thursday 3/17
Happy St. Patty's Day!
First day on the slopes in Vermont (Stratton Resort). Not the best conditions but absolutely in love with carving down the longest/prettiest slopes I've ever been down. Beautiful up in VT but they have this weird thing about quilts.
Already beyond sore on the first day.
St Patty's celebrations include $7 Steak dinner, UConn game and beers at a pub in Stratton Village. Of course I am wearing green.
Friday 3/18- Saturday 3/19
It is so warm on Friday, it is not exaggeration to say that the entire state of Vermont is melting. get in a few decent runs before everything turns to slush. I'm too sore to board by that point anyway.
Sherrie and I head back to CT and promptly crawl into bed for an evening nap. We wake up, have some snacks and a guinness while I introduce her to 'Best in Show'. Great movie. Then we watch 'Babies'. OK, movie, but both agree we love the African baby best.
Saturday I get to see a bit of Hartford (real Hartford conversation witnessed by me: "What's up slut?" yells one woman to her friend across the street at the Rent-a-Center, "hey Bitch!" the other girl says in response)... then I head to Foxwoods to meet up with Alisa where we play craps with hilarious (some more than others) old men. I always forget how smokey casinos are...
Sunday 3/20
End of vacay. Time for the 7 hour drive home from CT. Decide to break up the trip by stopping for lunch in Palisades Park (and to buy more of that crack bread!) .... my cousin, her husband and baby take me to a samkyupsal place (mmm pork belly) and we proceed to gorge. Halfway through the meal the owner of the restaurant offers to hold the baby for us while we eat. We oblige and next thing we know she is walking out of the restaurant with baby Warren. Now we are all Korean here so we don't actually think anything of this. But when she doesn't return after 10 minutes we are all jokingly remarking to one another about how we will have to explain to the police that a lady walked off with our baby and we just kept on eating.
She came back. As we suspected, she just went next door to show off this baby that is of no relation to her.
Monday 3/21
First day back at work. a little brutal. Hadn't even been working that long before I took the week off so trying to remind myself of my job function. Friend convinces me to come over for thai food and wine instead of going to the gym. I, of course, am convinced. I have papaya salad for the first time. I am in love with papaya salad.
Tuesday 3/22
Professor from Hawaii is in town and wants to have dinner with all the DC area alumni. 7 are able to make it. The restaurant of choice is a Thai restaurant. Despite the fact that I ate thai the night before, I still eat an embarrassingly hearty portion. I also likely sounded way too excited when someone suggested ordering papaya salad.
Wednesday 3/23
I catch up on 4 hours of tv that I missed in the last week and a half, then fall asleep. This may or may not have occurred in the vicinity of a large bag of doritos.
Thursday 3/24
Marian and I buy tickets for two upcoming shows at 9:30 club (Kills and Airborne Toxic Event).
Also, for some reason I get a kick out of the beginning of that Jessie J song 'Price Tag' (I want to say that she sings "ok, Coconut man, moonheads, and 비... you ready?!")
Friday 3/25- Sunday 3/27
Met Amir for happy hour in DC. Had the best fried green tomatoes napoleon! Then we took happy hour party to Baltimore to hang out with Matt and crew.
Saturday, I sleep off the week, then head to DC to begin Leah's 30th bday weekend extravaganza! But not before a quick stop in at a really well put-together fundraiser for Japan (nice job Pris, Caro and the other 80 million asian organizations that I did not knew existed in DC). It was a really nice event and they raised a ton of money.
Change scene. Tabaq Bistro on U Street. Leah is surrounded by family and close friends, and everyone is excited to be out and celebrating!
Sunday is bottomless mimosas and delicious brunch courtesy of momma and poppa Kuppersmith, then non-Kuppersmiths and I continue our day of walking (we think it was 6 miles that day). I head out to have dinner with my family at Woomi Garden and come to the realization that my stomach has stretched out over the last two weeks.
Monday 3/28
Birthday continues. As the actual day has finally arrived, the girls converge upon Old Ebbitt Grill for vino and food to properly ring in Leah's 30th. I had a variation of surf and turf (roasted oysters wrapped in bacon and a burger).
Tuesday 2/29
Today was gonna be a gym and veg out night, but I caught last minute wind of two events at SAIS. So I left work early to go to a talk given by Chung Mong Joon of Hyundai and ROK National Assembly fame (it was not very long or in-depth, and more political - I believe he just announced his candidacy for president). But the evening session about women leaders in korea-related fields was so fun because one of the speakers was hilarious! I'm pretty sure I have found my Korean woman leader role model.
Now I am exhausted... 완전 피곤해~
Photos: (Look who stumbled onto an easy photo editing program..... now if only I had more time to play around with it -- and maybe an artistic eye would help too...)
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| this looks like a tummy ache waiting to happen... it was all delicious |
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