the curds of life

Matt and i met up while we were both in Madison for epic training. we got dinner at Old fashioned and then went out for some drinks at Great Dane. We had to walk from one place to the next and when the wind blew burrr was it cold. Hanging out with Matt reminded me of how much i miss hanging out with the rest of the kaiser folks.


local Wisconsin brew


famous Wisconsin delicacy: fried cheese curds


the capital. Apparently, this is the 2nd largest capital building in the U.S. next to the white house.


Great Dane. I just noticed this now, but all the dogs have doggy tags.


the doggys up close


local great dane brew


matt and i

v-day

what a nice surprise that Adrian came to visit me on v-day. I had already scheduled dinner with my cousins that evening, so we all went to dinner together. We had dinner at a Japanese Yakitori place.


Bacon wrapped enoki


pork belly


tofu


onigiri


i look so awkward...


japanese rice beer


ponzu kobe beef


scallops


kobe beef with crispy garlic


so many sticks


me and the boos


my cousin and his wifey


we even had valentines cake.. super yummy!

oh yeah, and it was the first valentines day I ever got flowers. SO SWEET! :)

Puccho orange soda?

I went to marukai today and I found new puccho!! I think it's orange soda flavor that's what the package looks like but it tastes more like cactus cooler puccho :) yummy!

santa cruz

in early december daniel came to visit me and we went to santa cruz. we checked out mystery spot, had lunch in downtown santa cruz, went to the boardwalk, and visited the UCSC campus.


it was daniel's first time there and I hadn't been there in years



he was really excited and wanted to do all the demonstrations :)


there's me standing slanted




i volunteered for the last demonstration.


this is downtown santa cruz. it reminded me a lot of santa barbara


i brought daniel to pizza my heart where you get a slice of pizza and a tshirt for $5!


yummy


the boardwalk


it was a nice day


some more pictures of the beach


i love the clouds


the rides were closed that day. i think they are closed in the winter except on holidays


another picture of the beach


and they had this holiday train with elves and santa for the kids to ride


another cloud picture


the campus was so secluded, it was hard to figure out where everything was or where we should go


it was also very scary since you can't see past the trees at night


we found a building! it was the library

thanks for visiting daniel! next year, we'll check out the redwood forest :)

no seat covers

So in the Midwest I've noticed that they don't use toilet seat covers
anywhere! At the airport in Minnesota, the airport in Madison, the
lobby of the hotel, or the restrooms at epic...no seat covers!! What's
up with that? I'll have to start bringing my own. The picture was
taken of the restroom at epic.

from Time magazine Pictures of the week

no traffic

I've been living here for a month and driving to work and back everyday, there hasn't been traffic at all.  I was just thinking about it on the way to work today.  Another thing I noticed is that I haven't seen a CHP car and rarely see any cop cars on the street.  In fact, I havent even seen any accidents on the freeways.  I'm not sure what that means, but I love how there's no traffic!