{"id":1563,"date":"2010-01-05T05:41:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T05:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2020-10-21T20:21:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T02:21:35","slug":"what-i-did-on-my-winter-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/05\/what-i-did-on-my-winter-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Did On My Winter Vacation – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, it feels like forever ago I left work and did a happy dance as I left the building for 2 weeks of bliss and awesomeness.\u00a0 If you’ve been around for a little while, you know about the magic hat.\u00a0 And if you don’t, you might click over there to see<\/a>.\u00a0 If you are truly lazy (it’s ok, I understand), we put some things we wanted to do in a hat and planned to pick one out every day.\u00a0 Here is a quick play by play before it all fades into a distant memory.<\/p>\n

Friday – Not a hat pick – came home and slept because of too much fun the night before.\u00a0\u00a0 Seriously, sometimes I wonder what goes through my head staying up until almost 5am drinking heavily.\u00a0 This is later than I stayed up ALL VACATION.\u00a0 By far.\u00a0 On a schoolnight.\u00a0 Seriously woman… anyway.\u00a0 We vegged on the couch and I believe we barely made it to 10pm.\u00a0 It was a perfectly nice way to start break.<\/p>\n

Saturday – Not a hat pick – white elephant party #3.\u00a0 I think there were errands, some gaming, I got an AWESOME 8 mile run in, and some relaxing before we headed out.\u00a0 Details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here is me laughing at Zliten’s present:<\/p>\n

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Sunday – Not a hat pick – video games all day.\u00a0 We decided to start the hat picks the next day and play the hell out of Crystal Defenders and start Brutal Legend.\u00a0 It was a sacrifice to be so lazy, but I made do.<\/p>\n

Monday – Hat pick – clean out the pantry.\u00a0 Our first pick was so super exciting!\u00a0 But, it was needed and it was REALLY, REALLY nice to be able to find things, our pantry is very shallow and very big so it’s hard to lose stuff, but things were beginning to fall behind the doors and get stuck on the sides.\u00a0 We almost painted it but decided against it.\u00a0 Then, we hit the gym for a super awesome run and otherwise vegged on the couch again.<\/p>\n

Tuesday – Hat pick – mini golf.\u00a0 After a workout and some lunch, we headed out to an outdoor mini-golf course called peter pan.\u00a0 It’s not changed since the 70’s and has all sorts of classic obstacles including a 15 foot tall peter pan, and a whale that you shoot your ball into and it comes out the butt.\u00a0 Written on the butt?\u00a0 San Diego.\u00a0 Tee hee.\u00a0 The place is actually BYOB friendly but being 3pm on a Tuesday afternoon, we refrained. Since this afternoon at the mini golf\u00a0 course, I will be buying a simulator here<\/a> to play at home.<\/p>\n

The coolest thing?\u00a0 A film crew came into shoot a movie.\u00a0 They had everything – two big boom mics, cameras, a director, and two dudes dressed up in full golf attire with clubs and bags.\u00a0 They were shooting on the white rabbit hole.\u00a0 I wish I knew what it was all about.<\/p>\n

The second coolest thing?\u00a0 We tied on both 18 whole courses!<\/p>\n

Wednesday – Hat pick -bbq adventure in Lockheart.\u00a0 I’m very happy this one came up.\u00a0 I got my run on early, and we left shortly after noon.\u00a0 We drove the hour or so out of town and decided to hit up 3 places for lunch.\u00a0 We brought a cooler to bring back leftovers and only ordered a little bit at each place.\u00a0 Vegetarians, you might want to skip this part.<\/p>\n

Black’s<\/a> – it was our favorite.\u00a0 Everything was great, and they had the best selection of side dishes.\u00a0 This is not my plate of food but very similar.<\/p>\n

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Smitty’s<\/a> – was the most expensive, and while the meat was good, the place reeked of bbq smoke so much it was distracting.\u00a0 Also, the sides were crappy.\u00a0 There wasn’t much of a selection, they were tiny, and they tasted like they came from the store.<\/p>\n

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Kreuz<\/a> – the meat was a little tough, but the sausage was amazing and so were the ribs.\u00a0 We didn’t bother with sides because they didn’t look good here either.<\/p>\n

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Verdict – Blacks was the best, but we still like Mann’s best which is within walking distance from our house.\u00a0 So there.<\/p>\n

Thursday – Not a hat pick – X-mas Eve present opening adventure.\u00a0 I got up early, got in a workout, and then headed to work for a few hours. Pics somewhat unrelated, I just picked out some of my faves from the day.<\/p>\n

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There was a lot under the tree so we opened a present every 30 minutes.<\/p>\n

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It was great fun!\u00a0 I got such awesomeness as a leopard print snuggie, a runner ID tag for my shoes, a poopin’ polar bear, and the last present of the night – a garmin forunner.<\/p>\n

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Even though it was WAY over what we decided to spend on each other (ahem!), Zliten decided that was what he wanted to get for me so he did.<\/p>\n

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He got the 205 but decided he wanted to get me a 305 so we took it back and it’s on back order.\u00a0 Soon, I will play with it!<\/p>\n

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Zliten baked us computer bread.<\/p>\n

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And since I am a less awesome present giver, here are some of his favorites, the hot sauces…<\/p>\n

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…and the Rush Limbaugh book.\u00a0 Comedy gold he has said so far.<\/p>\n

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And then, we passed out just after midnight very sleepy-tired.<\/p>\n

Friday – Not a hat pick – X-mas fun with the parents.\u00a0 After a workout in the morning, we headed up north for lasagna, garlic bread, salad, and copious amounts of sweets (candied popcorn, almond roca, fruitcake, pecan pie).\u00a0 We played games all day – hand and foot (card game), dominos, golf (card game).\u00a0 We got (beside money) a set of mugs for each card suit and embroidered aprons with our names on them for each of us.\u00a0 Rock!\u00a0 My dad ended up winning all games but the last one – I upset the game.\u00a0 All in all, it was a great day.<\/p>\n

Saturday – Hat Pick – Go see a mooovie.\u00a0 And well, we had wanted to check out Avatar in 3D for a while so it was a good excuse.\u00a0 Great movie, even though we had to sit in the front row.\u00a0 I highly recommend seeing this one in the theater, it was good fun.\u00a0 It was a full day – we started with some pho, then shoppings, then the movie, and then hit the gym for a run.\u00a0 I’ve never been so late on a weekend day, so I got there about 50 minutes before closing, so I had to modify – I did a quick warmup, 5 miles, and a very quick cooldown.\u00a0 Then, we watched some really horrible movies (Troll 1 and Troll 2) and played a drinking game to go along with it.\u00a0 Good fun!<\/p>\n

Part 2, tomorrow!<\/p>\n

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