that’s whacked

row, row, row your boat…to dim sum

Sunday, Aug 22. 2004  –  Category: Musings

On Friday after work I met up with Wendy, Jaime, & Zac and we all went to the San Mateo County Fair. We gorged ourselves on fair food, rode the bumper cars, and had a fun time just relaxing at the fair. One note to the fair organisers though: when you have a food/cooking competition, throw the food out after a few days have passed. While I’m sure it’s nice to show the winners for the rest of the two weeks your fair is running… it makes me wonder when I see a green fuzzy fruit tart that won first place.

On Saturday we picked up one of Wendy’s college friends and another friend at SFO, and went back to Jaime’s place for dim sum. Jaime & Zac just excavated Zac’s dad’s old boat out of the backyard, so we dragged it to the dock by the river behind their condo and surprise surprise, it floated! We got in and rowed around for a while, heading out towards the mini-bay/lake by Foster City Blvd & Edgewater Blvd. Zac then pointed out that we could probably just row to dim sum, so we dug our oars in, and rowed our way across the lake and got out on the other side. It was a pretty funny sight to see 6 of us in that boat get out and walk across the street into a Chinese restaurant carrying 2 big oars and a smaller paddle.

A lazy afternoon of watching Olympics coverage, and then Wendy and I headed up to the city where Val & Jason had cooked indian food! yum! We gave them a TiVo for their wedding present, thus converting yet more unbelievers into the fold.

It’s a Sunday morning, I slept in ridiculously late, and am now puttering around in the study listening to Lighthouse Family. Very chill mellow music… quite content. Gonna try and cook some calamari steaks and crab for dinner tonight.