Winter Vacation Fun
Jan. 12th, 2012 10:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mark_asphodelOf all the places to spend the first weekend in January, Sandusky (OH) is not the place I'd pick. Even on an unseasonably mild day, this stretch of Milan Road is nauseating, a collection of dreary chain motels punctuated by tattoo parlors and naughty lingerie shops. In context, the lingerie shops are probably a bright spot in the boredom.
I'm holed up here because my husband is half a mile down the road attending a conference at the Kalahari, a bad-trip waterpark resort with an "African Savanna" theme. I'm not sorry not to be penned up there this time around, but there's not a hell of a lot to do in this town with Cedar Point closed for the season.
Anyway, so far today I hung out with some migratory waterfowl at the "moat" outside the Kalahari; seeing a pair of Trumpeter Swans would be a highlight to any day, and seeing them in the middle of Snow Geese, Black Swans, Northern Pintails, and some other things I haven't identified yet was wonderful. I took some pix of the birds (I am a terrible photographer; my husband is far, far better) and then went down to the local township cemetery to see if anything interesting could be found there. (No.)
I might go down to Milan to see the Thomas Edison Birthplace. Maybe.
-x-
This week was just nuts. And it's Thursday.
Sunday: Drive from Dearborn to Sterling Heights to have lunch with friends. Swing by Detroit to see Grandma. Back to Dearborn to hike 2+ miles by the Rouge River with another group of friends.
Monday: Work in Ypsi. Drive home, then drive to West Bloomfield to conduct astronomy club meeting.
Tuesday: Work in Ypsi, drive back to Dearborn to conduct union divisional meeting, crawl home and collapse into bed with the cat.
Wednesday: Work in Ypsi, drive home, drop cat off in at Grandma's, then ride shotgun for the drive through Ohio. I skipped the radio show because my co-host lost his voice and, by that point, I was losing mine as well.
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Food update: Cooked a pretty good Indian-style pumpkin curry last week using chicken thighs, chickpeas, and pigeon peas. The curry sauce (yes, from a jar) was pretty mild but overall it was quite nice. I'll try the chickpea/pigeon pea combination again sometime.
Also, used the last of the "good eggs" yesterday in omelets for dinner. One duck-egg omelet, one green-shelled heirloom chicken egg omelet. I'd used four of the chicken eggs last week to make omelets that just featured salt, pepper, butter, and grated Gruyere, and those were very good. Last night's dinner was a little more bold, with white cheddar and diced avocado, plus a drizzle of ancho chile sauce.
The omelet is this miraculous thing to me now. I've hated scrambled eggs for years, and didn't trust restaurants to make omelets that weren't scrambled eggs mashed up with... stuff. But since I've started making my own, I can hardly believe how good they are. Though, ah, using quality of ingredients certainly helps.
I wonder if there's any good place to eat in this town...
I'm holed up here because my husband is half a mile down the road attending a conference at the Kalahari, a bad-trip waterpark resort with an "African Savanna" theme. I'm not sorry not to be penned up there this time around, but there's not a hell of a lot to do in this town with Cedar Point closed for the season.
Anyway, so far today I hung out with some migratory waterfowl at the "moat" outside the Kalahari; seeing a pair of Trumpeter Swans would be a highlight to any day, and seeing them in the middle of Snow Geese, Black Swans, Northern Pintails, and some other things I haven't identified yet was wonderful. I took some pix of the birds (I am a terrible photographer; my husband is far, far better) and then went down to the local township cemetery to see if anything interesting could be found there. (No.)
I might go down to Milan to see the Thomas Edison Birthplace. Maybe.
-x-
This week was just nuts. And it's Thursday.
Sunday: Drive from Dearborn to Sterling Heights to have lunch with friends. Swing by Detroit to see Grandma. Back to Dearborn to hike 2+ miles by the Rouge River with another group of friends.
Monday: Work in Ypsi. Drive home, then drive to West Bloomfield to conduct astronomy club meeting.
Tuesday: Work in Ypsi, drive back to Dearborn to conduct union divisional meeting, crawl home and collapse into bed with the cat.
Wednesday: Work in Ypsi, drive home, drop cat off in at Grandma's, then ride shotgun for the drive through Ohio. I skipped the radio show because my co-host lost his voice and, by that point, I was losing mine as well.
-x-
Food update: Cooked a pretty good Indian-style pumpkin curry last week using chicken thighs, chickpeas, and pigeon peas. The curry sauce (yes, from a jar) was pretty mild but overall it was quite nice. I'll try the chickpea/pigeon pea combination again sometime.
Also, used the last of the "good eggs" yesterday in omelets for dinner. One duck-egg omelet, one green-shelled heirloom chicken egg omelet. I'd used four of the chicken eggs last week to make omelets that just featured salt, pepper, butter, and grated Gruyere, and those were very good. Last night's dinner was a little more bold, with white cheddar and diced avocado, plus a drizzle of ancho chile sauce.
The omelet is this miraculous thing to me now. I've hated scrambled eggs for years, and didn't trust restaurants to make omelets that weren't scrambled eggs mashed up with... stuff. But since I've started making my own, I can hardly believe how good they are. Though, ah, using quality of ingredients certainly helps.
I wonder if there's any good place to eat in this town...
