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Maya let me sleep in this morning until 6:15 am, so I feel very well rested today.  I decided to make use of the early morning start to make waffles using my pancake recipe .  I thought I was being a good wife/mother.  I was pretty proud of myself actually.  That was until Maya walked in to the kitchen and told me she wanted cereal and milk and not waffles.  Naturally, had I not made waffles she would have wanted them.  I was pretty annoyed.  So was she.  We exchanged words and they weren’t pretty.  I “removed myself from the situation” and went for a run.  When I came back things weren’t much better but I was determined to soldier on.  I’d actually planned an activity for a change and come hell or high water we were going to follow through.  So we got all dolled up and headed out to the Borders’ Fancy Nancy event.  I think I was more excited than Maya.  When I got on the 405 I was even more excited because the new carpool lane extension was finally open!  My excitement was short-lived, however, thanks to this guy.  It never ceases to amaze me when people drive in the carpool lane at 60 miles an hour. Fancy Nancy was a success!  We listened to 3 stories, we had snacks, we did arts and crafts.  But when the raffle winner was announced things turned ugly.  A bunch of little girls in fancy outfits stormed out in protest.  We were included in the mass exodus.  We headed to my mom’s place for lunch.  After several assurances by her that she was still reading my blog (thanks Mom) we ate some good food.  Probably one of the best meals I had all week.  Somehow I didn’t inherit her cooking abilities.  Such a shame

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Fancy Nancy

To shift away from food for a second, Friday night we headed down to Pilsen on the Lower West Side of Chicago for an art show.  It was a pretty unique experience- many galleries were opened up to display artwork, as well as artist studios, apartments, and lofts.  Food and drink were offered as well.  There was even a DJ at one place. From there we walked west towards a Mexican restaurant called “Nuevo Leon” (East Pilsen is known for its artists, as you head west there is more of a Mexican/Latino culture).  The restaurant was cheap, authentic, and delicious (and a BYOB establishment, which I like).  I got nachos to start, which were basically individual chips loaded with refried beans, ground beef, melted cheese, sour cream and guacamole.  For an entree I got chicken enchiladas with mole sauce; also incredible.  The price: a grand total of $8.  Pretty good deal.  I forgot to take a picture of the food, but I added a picture of the remnants, and a mural inside the restaurant.  After that we headed up to Lincoln Park to a bar called Rocks.  Cool place, would go back again.  The El ride back up north wasn’t too pleasant, as usual, but all in all, good food, good entertainment, and good company. Oh and also, the Edzo’s tally: up to 2 now (garlic fries- good chocie)

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pilsen art show; nuevo leon; rocks bar

Self made it! She made it to the City! Her car held together (though self had to keep an eagle eye on the temperature gauge)! And she even got there a little early, and found parking right on Mission! Since it was early, self wandered over to Miss Saigon across the street from the Center (She’s getting to be quite a regular here!), and just as she was seating herself, carefully facing the door, someone called to her from the next table, and it turned out to be Lucy Burns, who was having lunch with Alleluia! Lucy Burns, who teaches at UCLA! Who had come up expressly to introduce Merlinda! And it’s a good thing self ran into them, because just as self started telling them how lucky she was to find free parking right on the street, Lucy told self that she had better put coins in the meter, there was no such thing as free parking anywhere on the Mission . Self kept insisting, “But it’s a Saturday!” And then Alleluia said Lucy was right, so self ran back and checked and — yup, she did have to put coins in! Eeeek! Anyhoo, on to the reading. Self found it quite a fascinating experience, as Merlinda has such a deep, rich voice

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Jump to the full entry & travel map Lhasa, Tibet, China Sunday 8th November, Alighting the train in the cool thin air we were herded out of the very modern station by the military guards and into the car park area where our guide met us waving the only sign we saw with names on it , ours of course. Our guide is a lovely young Tibettan lady named Meema and in greeting us she placed a traditional white silk scarf over our shoulders and welcomed us to Tibet. That was such a special gesture as I know Buddhists offer the scarves when visiting temples.

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Would you like a Chaperone, YES is the only answer — Lhasa, Tibet, China

Kurbrunnenstraße 9 67098 Bad Dürkheim If you find yourself wanting to get away from the hustle and bustle of a popular tourist city such as Heidelberg, you may want to consider taking a daytrip to the small, quaint city of Bad Dürkheim.  Here, you will find various shops and the occasional event to attend.  Of course, you can also enjoy some delightful German cuisine in this wonderful traditional town. The ambiance at Le Café is absolutely magnificent.  On a beautiful day, you could sit outside and enjoy the weather behind the restaurant where there are quite a few tables available.  Otherwise, you can relax in the glowing warmth of the café.  The interior is ornamented beautifully with various paintings, decorations, and flowers.  Clean, smooth wooden tables await your company.  Some tables even have blue sofa seating, adding to the level of comfort inside.

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Le Café: Das Dürkheimer Kaffeehaus (Updated Review)

Enjoy Three-Course Feast for $75 Get a Head-start On Holiday Shopping Along Fashionable Newbury Street; Luxury Accommodations Begin at $75 Per Person Per Night for the Thanksgiving Weekend With Thanksgiving Dinner for Two Foodies are certain to give thanks this Thanksgiving: Taj Boston, the landmark hotel at Arlington and Newbury streets overlooking the Public Garden, is offering a three-course prix fixe chef’s menu in The Café on November 26 for $75 per person, and a special holiday guestroom rate of $75 per person per night, based on double occupancy and the purchase of Thanksgiving dinner for two. Available from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m., the delectable Thanksgiving menu designed by Executive Chef Franck Steigerwald includes choices for appetizer, entrée and dessert: Appetizers include Smoked Salmon with lemon cream and basil salad; a Terrine of Foie Gras with citrus salad and apricot marmalade on mini brioche, or Pumpkin Soup with poached egg, parmesan and roasted pumpkin seeds Entrée choices include a Traditional Turkey Dinner with accompaniments; Grilled Beef Striploin with rutabaga mousseline and wild mushroom Madeira sauce, or Seared Halibut with fricassee of asparagus and golden beets with porcini sauce Desserts include Pumpkin Cheesecake with dark chocolate feuilletine, caramel loops and vanilla ice cream, or Apple Puff Tartlette with apple cider sauce, peppered walnuts and cinnamon ice cream Technorati Tags: hotels , Boston , travel , resaurants To reserve, please call Dining Reservations at (617) 598-5255

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Today my friends and I met up for tea at the Tudor House  in Santa Monica to celebrate a birthday.  I have been coming to this place for years and I love it because it’s totally cute in a shabby chic English sort of way.  Okay so it’s not Fortnum and Mason but I also don’t have to save up for 2 weeks to afford a scone.  You can’t have everything I guess.  I had a ton of work to do before heading out for tea at 12:30 but I left my place at noon and figured I’d have more than enough time to get to Santa Monica.  Unfortunately it seemed like everyone else was migrating to the beach for a spot of tea and traffic was hideous.  The worst part of all was the parking though.  I entered a parking structure who’s electronic sign informed me there were 181 available spaces but 10 minutes and 5 gallons of gas later I realized the sign was obviously malfunctioning.  Needless to say that I was a bit late after having to hike from a structure about a mile away from the restaurant.  It was worth it though because I had an excellent vanilla black tea and this: I am embarrassed to say I ate the entire thing.  Well not the butter but everything else.  Not quite what the English had in mind when they thought up tea time, right?  At least I ate this over the course of 3 hours.  Not that it really matters but it makes me feel a bit less like a hog so I thought I’d add that in. Afterwards I picked Maya up from school and took her to the park in an effort to burn off some of her crazy energy.   She practiced her moves for her future career as a Cirque de Soleil performer: The girl in the pink is Maya’s new best friend Lucy.  I think that at this point Lucy’s parents were surreptitiously moving her away because they were concerned Maya’s energy was contagious.  Or they thought Maya was nuts.  I’m not sure.  After a yummy sushi dinner I am now home at 8:45 on a Friday night.  I’m about to settle in with a DVR’d Top Chef episode.  I might wrap things up with an episode of  20/20 if I can stay away until then.  Yup, just another wild and crazy night here.

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I haven’t hung out with a 2 year old in quite awhile, so this visit is a steep learning curve for me! It takes twice as long to get ready to go somewhere, and if I ever thought that I got grumpy when I was hungry, well let me tell you, I have met my match…! After a very late start today we finally made it to the College Park MARTA station and successfully navigated the rail system and the streets of downtown Atlanta, finding our way eventually to World of Coca-Cola . With a fussy child in tow, we checked out the huge variety of artifacts – all kinds of Coke advertisements, paintings, platters, machines, cans and bottles, etc.

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World of Coca-Cola Squares Off With the 2 Year Old

I am one of the event organizers for the Food & Drink Fest …the Festival with Taste, which takes places annually in the spring.   This year we moved to the larger space of Copps Coliseum, Hamilton because the festival is expanding so quickly.  Boasting over 50 of the Hamilton-Halton & Niagara Regions’ top independent restaurants, over 35 local & international wineries, 25 craft breweries and dozens of spirits, liqueurs, bakeries and gourmet foods; the Food & Drink Fest is Southern Ontario’s Meca of all things gourmet food and drink.  My Dirty Little Secret: Despite being in the driver’s seat of the region’s largest culinary event, I can’t cook to save my life. Up until this point, I really could care less if I could cook.  Throughout university I lived on coffee, veggies, chocolate, peanut butter and more coffee, so cooking wasn’t a necessity.  However; once I started working fulltime at Beau Monde Productions (the company that produces Food & Drink Fest), my foodie boss introduced me to the wonderful world of actual food and suddenly peanut butter just wasn’t cutting it anymore (unless of course it is used in a Chicken Stir-fry with peanut sauce over wild rice. Yum!).

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Last night, I came home to new music.  Yesss! The band: Zeep .  The album: People & Things .  They’re a duo with roots in Brasil and Germany, and their sound is a little Brazilian, a bit tropical and a tad sweet.  Listening to the album, I want to drink sangria or smoke out of a hookah.  The upside of being with someone for 12 years: They can buy you an album after hearing one song and know you’ll like it – and you do.  Happy, happy; joy, joy.

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Zeep, automatic flushing toilets and Friday the 13th

It is easy to find dining experiences for young children at Walt Disney World .  There is a plethora of character meals and you certainly never have to go far to find a kids meal.  But what about older kids, junior high students, and teens?  Are there any memorable or fun restaurants for them? We’ve compiled a list of restaurants we consider the best Disneyworld has to offer big kids and teens.  We aren’t including counter-service / fast food type locations in this list – just table service restaurants.  Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park Restaurants for Teens – see: http://www.squidoo.com/Animal-Kingdom-restaurants-for-teens Disney’s Hollywood Studios Theme Park Restaurants for Teens – see: http://www.squidoo.com/Disneys-Hollywood-Studios-restaurants-for-teens Epcot Theme Park Restaurants for Teens – See: http://www.squidoo.com/Epcot-restaurants-for-teens Magic Kingdom Theme Park Restaurants for Teens – see: http://www.squidoo.com/Magic-Kingdom-restaurants-for-teens Walt Disney World Resort Hotel Restaurants for Teens – see: http://www.squidoo.com/Walt-Disney-World-Resort-Hotel-Restaurants-for-Teens Downtown Disney (Orlando) Restaurants for Teens – see: http://www.squidoo.com/Downtown-Disney-Restaurants-for-Teens   Thank you, Stephen Build A Better Mouse Trip Toll free: 877-815-6515

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Great Walt Disney World Restaurants for Older Kids, T’ween, and Teens

Have you heard of those Entertainment Books jam-packed full of coupons and discounts? http://dailytreat.dealshop.us/shopping/2009-Entertainment-Book-Offer They’re amazing ! Real-life example: I used a coupon last night with a friend, and I got a free meal from my favorite Mexican restaurant…this fits well into my budget, and I’m sure it fits into yours! The free meal is just one simple example of the AWESOMENESS of this book… These books have massive amounts of coupons that you can use all year, including discounts for restaurants, retail stores, shopping, movie tickets, groceries, services, travel, attractions, car care, home furnishings, and a TON more. This book more than pays for itself within the first couple of times you use it…and it’s got hundreds of coupons and discounts in it! It’s incredible.

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A rumor that we had heard earlier this fall about EVOO in Somerville seems to have some substance, as the Boston on the Go blog mentions that the restaurant will indeed be moving from Somerville to Kendall Square in Cambridge. The article states that EVOO will likely make the move from Beacon Street near the Cambridge border to 350 Third Street in Kendall Square in February of 2010. Boston on the Go also reports that they will be sharing the new Kendall Square space with a second location of Za, an upscale Arlington pizza spot.

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EVOO to Move from Somerville to Kendall Square in Cambridge

The highly-anticipated opening of a restaurant and bar in Cambridge is finally about to become reality. According to their website, Lord Hobo will be opening this coming Sunday (November 15) on Hampshire Street near the edge of Kendall Square where the offbeat and eclectic B-Side Lounge used to be. Lord Hobo looks to be a beer bar, with a large number of high-quality beers both on tap and in bottles (the owner of Lord Hobo also runs the Moan and Dove, a popular beer bar in Amherst), but the place will also offer gastropub-style food, including such dishes as fried oysters, lobster macaroni and cheese, truffle chips, hanger steak and fries, homemade gnocchi, saffron risotto paella, and seared cod

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Lord Hobo is Opening in Cambridge This Weekend

An organic vegan restaurant near the Oak Grove T stop in Malden is closing its doors this weekend, with a plan in the works to move to Somerville. According to the restaurant’s website, Vej Naturals will be open through this upcoming weekend before shutting its Washington Street location for good. The note on the site goes on to say that they are planning on moving to a bigger location in Somerville’s Davis Square, but the move has not yet been finalized.

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Vej Naturals Is Leaving Malden, Planning to Move to Davis Square in Somerville

Last night…Inoteca.  19 person dinner party, we sat downstairs.   $34 a head (not including wine) – the dinner party menu.  Grilled calamari w/ fennel and tomato | beets, orange, pecorino, and mint | bruschette and meats | truffle egg toast | polenta |eggplant lasagna, etc.  A great place to hold a dinner for that size. Schillers - Last Saturday night, 2:30 am: nachos, fries, tecate. I love Corey.  Everyone loves Corey.   Order the smashed strawberry drink.  (Sidenote: I went to Schillers two weeks ago with my law firm and by the end of the meal every male attorney had ordered one of these.  It’s not girly, it’s delicious.) Welcome to the Johnsons: $2 beer, $1 pool.  Can’t beat it

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To give the nation a little of taste of the acting chops and luminous beauty we can all expect from her new sitcom debut (working name, Single Serving), Padma Lakshmi made a cameo on 30 Rock last night as the prospective host of Jack’s new talk show Dealbreakers. Either that or it was just another TV appearance to promote her pregnancy . It was not as epic as her defining role in Glitter , not as indie as her part in the Eels’ music video, a B+ effort all around really, but the clip is worth a look.

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Padmaverse: Pregnant Padma Interviews for New Job on 30 Rock

Jump to the full entry & travel map Cinque Terre, Liguria, Italy Cinque Terre is Italian for “five lands” and is a collection of the most idyllic Mediterranean villages, all tucked into a dramatic and rugged hillside; it’s an Italian National Park and recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Driving through the towns isn’t permitted (so glad) but there is an 11 mile trail that connects them and if the weather is dry, they are passable and absolutely gorgeous

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Hiking on the Mediterranean — Cinque Terre, Liguria, Italy

Jump to the full entry & travel map Taman Negara National Park, Malaysia Nigel: After the jungle train from Kota Buru, we spent a night in Jerantut before we headed off to Taman Negara, which is one of the national parks in Malaysia. The bus we were to get on to go to the park was very old looking and comfort was not number one priority, but the journey was OK and after an hour we had reached our destination

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I am a celebrity get me out of here — Taman Negara National Park, Malaysia