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Pickwick Hotel

chaunce — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:07:11 +0000

We stayed at the Pickwick Hotel in Union Station area in downtown San Francisco.

It’s a decent, older, but somewhat modernized hotel. I was surprised to see little signs talking about having the option of not getting your towels and/or bedding replaced by housekeeping to help the environment. Kudos, I wish we saw more hotels support this model.

The thing that I was very disappointed about though was that they have little bottles of Fiji water in the room for purchase. Fiji is terrible water because of what they stand for and how it as a company hurts the environment in Fiji.

We are now having breakfast at a cool little diner across the street from the hotel called Mo’z Cafe. Great food!

High-Lo’s 15th St Cafe

chaunce — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:17:02 +0000

Stopped at a little cafe in Bremerton called High-Lo’s 15th St Cafe that Urbanspoon suggested. It was a fun little place for breakfast that had a really cool collection of thermoses. I decided to order something called Delux Moon Biscuits and Gravy. They took biscuit batter and put it in a waffle maker. When it was finished cooking they poor they gravy over the top, and finish the plate off with eggs and home-style potatoes.

Crystal Mountain

chaunce — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:59:51 +0000

Crystal Mountain was fun. Had to get some new glove and got Heidi and new pair of goggles. She took a private ski lesson while her brother and I ran all over the mountain. It has a bunch of really fun runs and degrees of difficulty. We stayed on blues and black diamonds most of the day. Hit a bunch if powder and got buried once as did Corey. It was snowing and blowing wind like crazy for about an hour. Brrrrr! On our way back to Seattle to get dinner.

On to Crystal Mountain

chaunce — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:47:18 +0000

After a restless night of sleep, we woke up like a couple of kids on Xmas morning. We are ready to go play in the snow. Corey made some breakfast burritos and coffee. Then we got our snow gear on and hopped in the car. All three of us fogged the windows so bad we had to stay parked in front of his house for about 5 min waiting for the defroster to do it’s work. Now we are on out way to Crystal Mountain to snowboard and ski. So excited, it’s been a year since we went to PowMow in Utah.

Seattle Trip

chaunce — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:00:33 +0000

On our way to Seattle to visit Heidi’s brother Corey. We flew Alaskan Sirlines and they got us to Seattle a half hour early. Go figure.

Heidi is reading the 7th book in the Sookie Sachouse series (HBO’s True Blood).

New Photo Gallery

chaunce — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:22:58 +0000

We have finally gotten our new photo gallery up. The first galleries are from our honeymoon trip to London. There are a lot of really fun pictures. Hope you enjoy them!

Photo Gallery

Update: Thanks to Andy, I found out that our Photo Gallery wasn’t work in IE. After a bit of hunting through the CSS, I figured it out and it is now working in IE again.

Vegetarian Restaurant: 222

chaunce — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:33:34 +0000

We had lunch today at this great little vegetarian place called 222 here in Fulham / West Kensington. It was a buffet style and all of the food was really tasty and fresh.

Friday in London, All day bus tour

heidi — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:07:21 +0000

What a wonderful day. We set out for the day and the tube was working. We went to Victoria Station and bought an all day ticket to “The Original Bus Tour” it is a double decker bus you can get on and off all day. It stops at all the main places in London. We also got an included walking tour of Jack the Ripper. I can tell you that was creepy. We stood on some of the exact spots the dead bodies where found. We walked through the East End of London where in 1888 the poor lived and had been forgotten. Many of the buildings and cobbled streets are the same. Now it is a clean trendy area but you can just see the dim street lamps and the old time people walking. Whew I loved it. We jumped on the bus again and got off to see another musical. Avenue Q is what we ended up seeing. It was a comedy with puppets and it was a musical. Strange but good. Before the show we had time to get dinner and relax. It was a nice day.

A Day in Fulham

chaunce — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:02:49 +0000

After our traveling fiascos from the previous day we decided to sleep in and then just bum around Fulham to see what it had to offer.

We stumbled upon Chelsea Football Club (stadium). It looks huge. And to imagine that there are several if these stadiums around London.

Continuing to explore Fulham we found a really cool old cemetary called Brompton. I took a crap load of pictures. There were some really amazing headstones and monuments built there. The oldest headstone I came across was from 1840. There also had to be a few thousand squirrels there too. They seemed to be very acclimated to humans as the would literally come right up to you.

Then we saw they movie The Hangover. This movie was hilarious. The whole time I was wondering what they were going to do next. What for the credits though, they finish the movie off well.

For dinner we went to an amazing Thai restaurant called Blue Elephant. It is a world-wide chain with locations in Dubai, Bangcock and a bunch of others I can’t remember. For a London restaurant, this place was massive!

2nd Tube Strike Day, London

heidi — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:54:37 +0000

This day was Thursday or our trip. It has been a week since we left the States.

This is the second day of the strike so we decided to stay in our area and see what happens. We wanted to go to Victoria Station and do the bus tour for the day. I didn’t work out that way because we got a late start on the day and I didn’t want to spend hour after hour waiting for the tube and bus. We went to eat in a local place near our hotel. Then we headed down towards Fulham/Broadway. This is three or four blocks away. We ended up next to a really cool cemetery. Travel was still difficult so we went to a movie and the Blue Elephant for dinner in the same area. We went back to the hotel to get some rest for the next day that the tube would be running again. Finally!