Hello!
Whew!
Two very
interesting and very different days!
When I last posted, I think I ended with the
Medieval Times.
On Monday,
Chris was nice enough to take off work and we had a nice a relaxing day, except
for Chris, who took Arden to her school - 45 minutes one way - and Dara to her
school - about 10 minutes - and then got to pick them up at the end of the
day!
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| Chris' "kitchen sink" burger with egg on top! |
That’s a lot of miles that Brenda
does five times a week!
We decided to go
to Old Town Lawrenceville (lovely
area with some beautifully restored buildings) and have lunch. Selected Local
Republic, where Brenda and Chris had been before. We were there about 11:30 and opted to eat
inside, as it was really getting warm outside.
Brenda ordered an olive tapenade for starters, which I skipped
(allergies) but it really looked good. I
ordered a green salad to start, with jerk chicken sandwich with cheese, which
was nicely done. Brenda had a Panini with
ham, which she liked, and R had a cup of black bean soup and a Caesar salad. Chris, however, had what is called the “kitchen
sink burger” – meaning that the hamburger comes out with whatever the kitchen
wants to put on it! Apparently last time
Chris ordered it, it came with mashed potatoes on the burger … hmmm. This time, he had a zucchini fritter to
start, with gravy as well as a fried egg on top. Very interesting, and Chris said it was
good! Very unusual concept; I’m not that
adventurous!
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| Selfie at the Korean restaurant! |
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| Excellent soup and salad to start |
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| Very crowded table! |
Back at the house, while Robert went upstairs to take a nap,
Brenda and I talked about movies, and I suggested Jurassic World. Robert and I
had seen it at the movies when it first came out, but Brenda had not seen it
yet. So … well, let me only say that at
least Brenda is still talking to me, so that was definitely a good sign. R came down for the last half of the movie,
and we have decided that no, after all, we don’t need to add it to our
collection. It is quite scary and very,
very violent.
By this time, both Dara and Arden were home from school, and
we talked about dinner plans. Apparently
Atlanta has a very large Korean population, and Duluth, the town where Chris
works, has a wide assortment of Korean restaurants. Chris lived in Korea for two years, and is
fluent in Korean and loves the food.
Decided to try the Breakers,
for Korean barbeque. The girls got all
dressed up (that is, Arden and Dara … Brenda and I remained pretty much the
same…) and it was about 20 minutes to the restaurant.
Well … as we were there just a little after 5, we had the
place to ourselves for quite a while. This
is not a Korean BBQ (or Mongolian BBQ) of the kind we have seen elsewhere. In this case, we selected the “all you can
eat” menu, that includes chicken (both regular and spicy), pork belly, beef
brisket, another beef, pork (both regular and spicy) as well as squid … on
which I took a pass. Very interesting experience and we all ate
way too much food! (Also, they used metal chopsticks, which R and I had never
seen before!)
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| Korean radish and beef brisket |
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| Pork bellies ... |
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| Our handsome waiter! |
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| Squid ... |
(Especially after Chris told Arden that the squid was like
eating erasers! … No thank you!) We had a very nice waiter (who Dara thought
was handsome!) who cooked everything on the grill in the center of our table,
and then presented various sauces and accompaniments to go with things.
Straight home after that, and after a nice visit and the
girl’s baths, we were up to bed early, about 9:15 pm; we wanted to get an early
start this morning, as we knew we had a long way to go.
Way too soon, it was 6 am and we were back up, showered and
repacked. Out the door about 6:45 am
after some very special last hugs with the girls and Brenda. I am missing them already, that’s for
sure!
So … on the road to Charlettesville, VA.
Our plan was to get here and overnight, and
then go straight to Monticello in the morning.
Of course I hadn’t really looked at a map, so our Hampton Inn Hotel
(nice clean and very modern room on the 5
th (top) floor) is on the
north side of town, while Monticello is to the southeast.
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| Pedestrian main street mall! |
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| Lovely theatre! |
Oh well!
It took us about 8½ hours, but the drive was fine and we didn’t really
have any traffic anywhere to speak of, for which we were thankful!
Checked in about 4 pm.
As we hadn’t stopped any place for lunch, we
decided to head to the historic downtown mall area – supposed home of lots of
restaurants.
Well … hadn’t realized that UVA is in Charlottesville!
Young people everywhere!
Had to really be careful driving due to all
the one-way streets, and pedestrian walkways.
Finally parked in a lot on Water Street, and then just one block away,
the Main Street Mall.
Quite lovely, and
beginning to fill up with people.
Decided
to try an Indian restaurant, and really had the downstairs indoors restaurant
to ourselves!
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| Interior of Indian restaurant |
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| Cute guy! |
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| Even some wine! |
Our usual:
Vegetable samosas; vegetable pakoras; chicken
tikka, shrimp tikka masala, rice, and an eggplant dish that I can never
remember how to spell … oh, and garlic na’an.
Excellent!
Between Korean last
night and Indian tonight, we’re being very international!
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| Appetizers |
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| Naan, eggplant and rice; shrimp in back |
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| Chicken Tikka |
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| Back to the mall! |
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| Yum! |
Walked down the mall a bit to the Sweet Frog frozen yogurt shop to indulge just a little. Then, finally, back to the hotel by about
7:30 pm and now to post.
More later!
m
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