Archive for July 2009
Feeding the Ducks
Posted on July 19, 2009 by Ching under Things to Do.
I forgot to share these pictures of Brian and I feeding the ducks at Sedgwick County Park yesterday. We pretty much spent the entire day at the West side of town. It makes me want to live out West.
Brian went with me to my waxing appointment at Beau Monde and then we decided to go to the park to feed the ducks before meeting Tita Sol for lunch. Speaking of Tita Sol, we are going to have to take her out to a nice dinner (we are thinking Bone Fish) because she keeps insisting on buying whenever we eat together. It makes me feel really bad whenever she does it because there’s two of us and only one of her. If anyone should be buying lunch, it should be us. She says it is just her way of showing how much she appreciates us giving her Molly. Truthfully, it’s the other way around. We really owe her because we could not take care of Molly as wonderfully as she does.
Anyway, April called for help (she accidentally locked her keys in the car at the YMCA East parking lot) while we were at lunch with Tita Sol at Jimmy’s Egg West. Cory has a spare key, but he was at work. We live right next to T-Mobile so we would have been the best option to just pick up the key from Cory and drive to the gym and bring it to her. However, since we were all the way out West that day and in the middle of lunch with Tita Sol, we were too far away to be of any use. Thankfully Brian’s mom was available and she came to the rescue.
We planned on going to the zoo after lunch with Tita Sol. Figured that we aren’t often on the West side of town, might as well make the most of it. The zoo was fun but, as I mentioned in the previous post, way too crowded.
We ended our day by stopping by to see Sunny and Scott at the Baskin Robbins (North of New Market Square). Sunny had a remote there that day. It was the perfect excuse to eat some ice cream. Brian bought a scoop of something chocolatey. I was a little piglet and ordered two scoops of the Mango Tango. I really should’ve only gotten one scoop because I couldn’t finish mine. 🙁
We had a lot of fun yesterday. Brian said that the zoo was fun, but the highlight of the day for him was feeding the ducks. We will have to do that again. Maybe we can invite Tita Sol and Molly for a picnic at the park next time. Molly would go absolutely nuts around the ducks. Anyway, click here to see the rest of the pictures we took.
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Sedgwick County Zoo Pictures
Posted on July 18, 2009 by Ching under Flickr, Things to Do.
It had been almost five years since our last trip to the zoo. We went on September 24, 2004. It was my first trip to the zoo ever. It was really nice because there weren’t a lot of people that day. Brian and I pretty much had the zoo to ourselves. We were able to take some great pictures as a result. Here are the photos from our first zoo outing:
This time around we decided to go because the weather forecast was favorable. I also heard on the radio that you could get in for only $2. Great weather and discounted admission — it was perfect!
The downside was that the reason for the cheap admission is that it’s B98 (one of the local radio stations) listener appreciation day. Everyone and their uncle was at the zoo. It wasn’t as bad walking around outside, but once you got into the various exhibits it got really crowded. Taking good pictures was a huge challenge. We did our best, though, all things considered.
Here are the pictures from today’s zoo trip:
Now that we have seen the penguins, gorillas and tigers, we are all caught up. We won’t need to visit the zoo again for another few years. LOL.
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Swinging the Night Away
Posted on July 18, 2009 by Ching under Things to Do, Videos.
This looks like so much fun! I wish that we had events like that here in town. Maybe someone could organize swing dancing at Old Town Square? LOL.
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My Day in Topeka
Posted on July 17, 2009 by Ching under Food and Drink, Life.
I had a quick lunch with Mo today before heading back to work in Wichita. I don’t get to be in Topeka very often so it was a nice opportunity to see him.
I love how they give you stuffed animals instead of numbers at Classic Bean. The sandwiches are great, too. They’re named after classical musicians. Love it.
I forgot to take a picture of my Chopin sandwich, though. That’s because I was starving! All I had was a little bit of cereal this morning.
I left Wichita at 7:00 AM and reached Topeka around 9:00 AM. I realized that the milk was a bad idea when the butterflies in my stomach started to give me a stomach ache. Except, I couldn’t do anything about it because my teammates were already there.
Marc drove up to Topeka the night before since he has employees there. Our meeting technically wasn’t until 10:30 AM so I figured I could drive in the day of, and it would be just like going to work because I could leave about the same time. But then we decided at the last minute that we would have a team meeting before the actual meeting. Thus, I ended up in Topeka by 9:00 AM.
Linda was already in the room and had everything ready. She is so organized and just all-around awesome. Shortly after Pete arrived we did a run-through. Jimmy arrived in the middle of his portion.
At 10:30 AM we did our presentation for Doug as planned. It was pretty nerve-wracking (even though I had the easy parts — since we cut out my section, I’m just doing intro and conclusion now). I mean, this is our EVP/COO and he is a fantastic speaker. He had so many questions that our meeting ran until noonish. He provided our team with some really good feedback, though.
Randy said we would be the first team scheduled to present to the officers. We will be presenting our project sometime next month. On the one hand, I’m like “Arrrgghh!” But on the other, the sooner we present, the sooner we can stop worrying about the project. Plus, Pete pointed out going first actually has several advantages. Among them, we won’t be compared with another group that’s come before us (because we are first) and all the material is still fresh in our minds.
With all that was going on, I completely forgot about my stomach ache. Although, by 11:30, the ache had been replaced by hunger. By the time our meeting was over, Mo and his coworkers were already at Classic Bean. It’s located just a short walk from the Topeka GO so it’s pretty convenient.
The food is good and the service is friendly, but they’re not exactly fast. I had to wait a few minutes before they brought out my lunch. I was so hungry that I just scarfed it up without taking a picture. Sorry, guys.
Got back to work by 3:00 PM with the intention of doing time tickets. There were tons of emails to tend to (and a bunch of other stuff — fires everywhere) that I didn’t get them done. Might have to come in either tomorrow or Sunday, so I don’t have to do them on Monday. Mondays are super busy.
We have a busy weekend planned, though, so I might not have a choice in the matter. Oh, well. We shall see.
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Pool Party!
Posted on July 16, 2009 by Ching under Moblog.
Brian and I had a blast at Doug and Tammy’s on Sunday. Pool volleyball is lots of fun, even if I am not any good at it. Hannah is so cute. She was singing along to “I Know You Want Me” by Pitbull. Brian and I were surprised she knew the words to it.
More pictures from Sunday here. Check ’em out.
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