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!
Whirlwind work trip alert!
Went to Lenoir City, TN through the lovely Knoxville Airport. Funnily enough the airport, like the Burlington, VT airport, has rocking chairs throughout for your leisure.
Got lucky with this travel booking because while American Airlines is not where I have the fancy schmancy flight status, it apparently shares points with Alaska Airlines where I do have fancy schmancy flight status. Might be able to keep it after all.
One thing Tennessee has going for it I suppose is that it’s no less hot than Dallas. Okay maybe high 80s instead of low 90s but big whoop when hovering at these numbers. Portland me would have cared but Texas me does not.
One more serious good thing is that I went to Pho 99 and had delicious pho noodle soup. A great find. Speaking of food and beverage we’ve recently discovered the Starbucks Star Drink, which is their new kiwi-dragonfruit refresher. Very much a delicious thing.
Just landed in DFW. Out of the skyway and on to the freeway.
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.
