Travel With Me Tuesday: 2006 Chicago

We both wanted to go to Chicago - him for the opera and me for a chance to eat Lithuanian food. So as was our want back then, it was 'get in the car'.

Chicago is a long drive and we usually stopped in Cleveland to spend the night. This trip had us stopping for a meal out in western PA. Pure solid food, nothing like Iain's 'gourmet crap. I don't recall what we had but these photos show that after having the bread bowl of soup, he really didn't need much more!

I appear to have had a slightly lighter soup. I also recall that while it was a homey place, unless there was a snow storm I wouldn't need to go back. The mills and the mines have closed but it seems that a lot of people still want to eat the way the did way back when.

Now with our bellies filled we could mush on through the endless toll booths of the Ohio Turnpike. What an endless nitpicking road but Ohio needed jobs and toll booths provided some.

Wordless Wednesday: Pennsylvania Lavender

TBT : 2006 Canning Camp Food

talk about good...

Back in 2006, a bunch of us, who were renovating or had renovated our kitchens, shared our food recipes in an online forum.  A few of the cooks were serious canners. Many of us wanted to learn canning or get our skills back. So....Canning Camp was created!

Sherry and her late husband Roger hosted us and took us out and about Indiana and Michigan. I met some damn good cooks in addition to seeing canning again. Sherry set up a magnificent buffet one night and this crab quiche was only one of the tasty dishes. Not canned, just baked to perfection.

Maybe I should prep my canning jars for a winter canning!

Wordless Wednesday; October 15, 2014

Lake Champlain November 2006

Flashback Friday - November 18, 2011

 

2006. My dh in Prague savoring a bit to eat at the Christmas Market.  We enjoyed the trip and the Christmas Markets so much we're planning a similar trip soon. We didn't have any snow in 2006 in Prague, Vienna or Budapest.  But it was cold enough to make this woman happy and there was enough good food to make that man happy!  A win-win situation.

Flashback Friday - My Moment of Fame

We haven't been to Chicago for a while, and a recent trip we had planned ended up a no-go. It seems that there was a shortage of hotel space due to a/several large conventions. We went to New Orleans instead and had a great time but dh still missed his fall opera.

On a trip in 2006, we had good - meaning not frigid - weather and while walking down Michigan Avenue, I had my moment of fame. I was stopped by a radio interviewer and had a chance to speak about on line dating. I had tried it but was now happily married, for 5 whole years. That gave him a kick to think this old geezer had tried a 'current' and trendy topic, but found her man the old fashioned friend of a friend way. btw, this was the first time I had stopped coloring my hair and went back to red for another 5 years! Now I'm whitish gray again.

btw: I'm 5'7". That man was tall!

Scrapping on Saturday

This was for a scraplift today at Designer Digitals. It's an old photo taken when we were in Chicago in 2006. It still makes me laugh!

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I hope you're having lots of fun this weekend and being sure to laugh! What ARE your plans?

Flashback Friday 11 04 08

In 2006, on a trip to Chicago, I finally got to the Lithuanian restaurant I'd heard about on line-Healthy Food. Now I'd never found that many to begin with so it isn't like I had a choice of a lot...even in Chicago. We got off the infamous Dan Ryan expressway, and entered Chicago via the SouthSide. Lots of street names that brought back musical memories but still a bleak area. DH said are you sure this is the right way? and I said "Just drive." We found the restaurant, a parking space right out front and proceeded to enjoy the Breakfast of Champions which is NOT Wheaties in a Lithuanian restaurant.

We met with Gina the owner, who was happy to talk to us, tell us her history, and share opera stories with dh. We wondered how long "Healthy Food" would hang on in its Bridgeport location, or just hang on period.



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Budapest winter

This layout comes after the prior Budapest ....Happy Day ...one. In a chat at Designer Digitals this past weekend, one of the chat hosts mentioned that overcast days could give great photos. Well we had fog for most of our three days there in 2006 and the light WAS good. Haze is hard on my eyes but then there's always a price to pay somehow.

Looking at these pics makes us want to go back!

one from school

A layout from Design Your Life, the class I am truly loving these days. Scrapbooking to me is about a story, and the cleaner the better. Ali Edwards was my first love in that style, but if you want even cleaner, magazine style then Cathy Zielske is the one. imho.

I thought of these photos when we got this template because it's where I got my great fur snow hat. I haven't had many occasions to wear that hat since 2006 but boy...it got a workout this winter!