Day 2 of my Staycation Vacation

Day 2 started out with two good friends and brunch plans. The three of us try to make brunch plans at least once a month but we hadn't done it since May. We decided on King's Hawaiian Restaurant because it was kind of in the direction of one my friend's new home and because I've never been there. The food was good but their bread was even better! Their bakery is awesome and I'm thankful it's far away enough where I won't visit often. One of my friends is notorious for ordering tons of food. I usually joke that he orders the whole right or left side of the menu but on this day I don't think it was a joke. There was seven plates for three people on our table. I barely got halfway through my macadamia crusted mahi mahi. I had a couple of bites of their famous french toast and was in food coma status soon after. After brunch my friend wanted to visit Marukai Market, a Japanese Super Market. We went and were blown away by all the awesome Japanese products. I bought four tea cups (pictured above), tea, and other small stuff. I'm definitely going back. After King's Hawaiian & Marukai I went back home but only to picked up by my other friend and her daughter. We took a trip to my favorite fresh yogurt place in Los Angeles, Yogi's Yogurt. Once both excursions were done I was back home to watch the Olympic Games. Misty May and Kerry Walsh kicked Italian butt in Women's Beach Volleyball! The pretty much sums up my wonderful Sunday. :) xoxo...

Day 1 of Staycation Vacation

Today my only plan was my friend Cesar's wedding. I am so happy for my friend. He deserves the best this world has to offer and deserves the biggest & best love out there. Still can't believe he's married!! We were just in high school… yesterday! Lol, how time flies. After the wedding I got a craving for fruit but not a specific fruit. I wanted fruit from el Frutero, which is mixed fruit, chili powder, and lime juice. Yumm! I drove from South L.A. to Culver City and could not find a frutero so I decided to buy my own fruit and make my own frutero fruit salad. The results are in the pic above. Now my fridge is filled to the max with fruit. :) It was a good day one. Xoxo...

My Father Is Dying

He is on his deathbed in Mexico and I don't know what I'm feeling. I'm not devastated nor do I feel the need to fly to his side. I feel sad that the man who I'm genetically half of is going to die soon. I'm sad he wasn't a better father and I'm sad I can't feel love for him or anything more. I'm sad he didn't try to mend our relationship sooner.

Maybe I'm in shock right now? Maybe once I hear he's passed I will feel sorrow? I don't know...

Xoxo…
Update:
It turns out my father passed the next day but we didn't find out until the day following his death. I was very sad and shed some tears. I mourned the father I never had and the one I never will have. I always held hope that he would try to mend our relationship but that hope is forever gone. May God Bless his soul and as my older sister said, "Maybe he'll be a better father to us from Heaven." Amen to that sister... xoxo

Portland - Day 3

Today was a special day. My meals were whacky because of two things.

First, we had a very late lunch because I was busy fighting with Dell employees (long story). My friend's boyfriend and I went to Veggie Grill and I ordered a Thai salad with sweet potato fries. The salad was missing my favorite peanut dressing and was ok. The fries were super yummy.

A couple hours later we went to a bar to watch the hockey Stanley Cup Final. We felt kind if guilty not having anything so we ordered a couple of beers and onion rings.

So when it was time to have yummy dinner at a sushi place I was not hungry. Instead I had a small bowl of miso soup and a hot green tea.

Xoxo…

Portland - Day 2, part 3

This food is still from Nicholas'. Every table gets bread like in the pic below. Very yummy! My friend ordered a Lebanese cheese pizza and a rice/lentils side dish. It was all really good but so much food!!

What a food day!

Xoxo…

Portland - Day 2, part 2

We went to Nicholas' Lebanese Restaurant for dinner. I ordered a Meat Mezza and it included everything from the pics below. The star pastry thing was lamb and below that is a beef kabob.

Portland - Day 2, part one

Wow! So much food was consumed today! This post does not include dinner.

We started our day by having brunch at a restaurant called Toast. I had The Bad Ass Sandwich which had greens, two fried eggs, bacon, and a side of potatoes.

Then we went to downtown Portland and after a nice walk we visited Voodoo Doughnuts. I couldn't make up my mind on what to get so I ordered an apple fritter. It was yummy like all apple fritters are but it wasn't an amazing Voodoo Apple Fritter. My nephew ordered a few doughnuts for his college buddies and those looked pretty interesting. Two cream filled and one fruit loops. He also ordered an Oreo cookie doughnut (not pictured) that I took a bite of. Pretty yummy!