Intentionally Unexpected
The art seems indicative of something… I wonder if we’re there…
Sweet Suite!
Allegedly we’re on a boat… It really doesn’t feel like a boat…
It’s a boat! With a central park!
It’s a really BIG boat!
Goodbye Miami! To the sea!
Bevin and Brian were lounging in the chairs behind us.
Bevin has ruined a lobster. RUINED. She got every last bit of meat on that poor thing.
Something is afoot, Bevin’s not looking dressed for work!
Precautionary tests completed!
Fancy drink and airport chairs in background…
Looks like it’s vacation time!
We were recently linked to this YouTube video, describing re-creating a Disney menu item of the future past, The Handwich!
So when I came into the kitchen this morning and found this, I became extremely worried:
So, handwich. If you didn’t watch the video, I think you can guess. Sandwich, but in a cone shape, so it can be held in one hand. When this was discussed in our group chat, alternatives (such as our local Bread Zeppelin) were roundly poo-poo’d because they “weren’t Disney enough”. So Bevin decided to go all-in.
So, for all your “oh my god we’re on vacation and I ate all that I’m going to dieeeeeee” pleasure, here we have 4 totally unique handwiches.
The bread is Japanese Hokkaido milk bread, so it’s quite soft and fluffy. As far as ingredients go, from left to right we have:
They all turned out quite good. Maybe not pure Disney, but definitely extravagant!
The method of construction could be optimized. Unfortunately wrapping from the bottom and lying them on a pan creates a flat side, as well as causes the dough to slump to the bottom of the cone, creating a rather large bready bit at the end of your sandwich experience. Because the bread is nice and fluffy and sweet it’s almost like a dessert bread at the end though. (Perhaps this could be incorporated into the design, hmmm..) Bevin’s already planning how to make a steel cone with the pointy end up to wrap the bread around and bake to prevent this problems though.
In short, please be thoughtful when sending Bevin random crazy cooking YouTube videos, she just might be insane enough to do it.
1st inning, 1 out, Mariners are up 2 already.
We’re trying to conceal our excitement ‘lest we get in trouble with the natives. 😂
Bevin has found a fancy pastry and seems VERY pleased… The Cafe in the Wynn always has something she wants. 😂
Yesterday we drove 5 hours from home to Houston to see an art exhibit Bev’s mom wanted to see, go to the fountain pen store Bev wanted to go to, and go to a play written by Bev’s mom’s friend Rob, who was in town to see the production.
Pretty fun to be out and about and doing real world things again! Play was really cool, only 4 people, and basically moving the props in the picture around to represent different rooms. Play was called Mama’s Boy, and is about the family life of the Oswald family is Dallas, in the years leading up to the Kennedy assassination. Really interesting historical information, especially if it’s not something you’ve ever really learned about!
And then we got up early and drove the 4 hours back to Dallas, straight to the airport. Off to Las Vegas again for 4 days to finish dealing with some family affairs remaining after our last trip. Cleaning out a storage unit specifically. Promises to be an exciting time… 😂
LEGO has a surprising understanding of my love for spaceships of various types.
It’s… not great… for our checking account.
On the other hand, the mechanism they use to move the foils to attack position on Luke’s X-Wing is REALLY cool. Probably one of the coolest I’ve seen in a standard ‘play’ level set, so that was super interesting to build. And I can’t wait to build the Discovery.
Also, it’s a REAL x-wing, not that janky ‘resistance’ weirdness. Thank goodness LEGO still cares about the classics. 😎
Because I know you were worried about never knowing how the story ended…
Sadly lacking in midnight sun and flowing hotsprings.
Well I can confirm that it got above freezing and then dropped right back below.
In good news, we’ve heard that the water mains are repaired, so I don’t have to feel guilty about dripping the taps overnight at least.
Maybe I’ll keep my new pet iceberg around for a bit longer though, just in case…. although it’s starting to look a bit sad.
After several days of power being a couple hours on, followed by couple hours off, we no longer have rolling blackouts!
Unfortunately it looks like the reservoir system that supplies our town had a pipe break and repairs may take at least a day or two. So the only water we have is the water in the 2 water towers. Thus:
Also the fridge has every pitcher we have full of tapwater.
So we should be fine. Long as the water and electricity hold out through tonight’s final single-digit freeze and the pipes survive, we should be on the way out the other side!
And our driveways won’t be melted and refrozen ice rinks either.
As long as the power lasts the next 2 hours so I can watch the Mars Curiosity Rover landing I’ll be thrilled!