Hiking On thursday Night
I have been complaining to
(e:Terry) about him playing warcraft so much - so today after work he surprised us by whisking us off on a short hiking excursion to 18 Mile Creek in Hamburg. It was nice to get outside and run around. I brought only the iphone. Neither
(e:matthew) nor I had a real camera with because it was so spur of the moment.
The iphone takes the shittiest close ups and sadly there was the cutest froggy I ever saw. It was like the size of a small raisin.
In general the rest of the pics are nice. It does fine in perfect light from about six feet away or more.
So that does not include these cute little blueberries.
(e:hodown) - do you remember eating these?
Okay so for the not close up pics.
What are thes epurple bug study things about. I keep seeing them everywhere. What bugs are they catching and who is doing the study?
At the top of the waterfall
Walking along the creek was so beautiful. Its amazing that this place is only a 20 minute drive from home.
What kind of animal is this
I call this tortoise rock.
here is
(e:matthew) catching some frogs.
Evidence of the iphones
There were these awesome patterns in the shale at the edge of the creek. I thinki t looked much cooler in real life.
(e:terry) and
(e:matthew) having fun near the water
Afterwards, we came home and I went to the gym for a good workout and the eye candy. Then after that I cooked some rack on lamb on the grill using my new smoke box filled with pear wood chips from one of the dead pear trees we cut down. It gave it a really nice flavor.
I looked up what
(e:jim) was talking about and here is the beatle itself. Its kind of pretty. I am sure they are bad.
You can't promise proscuito and not deliver, its cruel and unusual.
The menu was pretty pretentious too. They put the grade of Brandy in the description of every dish they used. If I am paying that kind of cash for that tiny speck of food they damn well better use quality ingredients. Ya, they drizzle truffle oil on their chicken. ZOMG! Trufflz are SO Xpensive!
But, I doubt they actually use the ingredients listed in the description, as my pizza was missing the single meat ingredient. Not something that goes unnoticed.
It was pretty awful. If the food was amazing the tiny portions they served would be okay, but it wasn't good. and WAY overpriced! Noodles and bread are the cheapest food ever, so it's no wonder that the pizza and pasta dishes are huge. I've had much better food out of a box.
and you are so right ,(e:tinypliny), about the pretension. I'll never go back.
omg, I LOVE that place. sorry you had a bad experience, but it's seriously one of my fave restaurants in town. I could eat there every day. The pizzas are awesome, and the pasta dishes are huge.
yummmmm.
I hate that place because:
a) The waitresses are not only pretentious, they have a discriminatory attitude towards people who may not be upto their snooty levels of "sophistication".
b) There were flies all over the place INSIDE when I ate there.
c) The ladies room had two stalls, one had a broken door, and the other had no toilet paper. There ran out of soap on the counter for washing hands.
d) With all the above they STILL charged like we were eating at a gourmet restaurant in Paris or something.
e) Our waitress' attitude was revolting, disrespectful and made our evening an eating hell.
Trattoria Aroma, YOU ARE BOYCOTTED.
Haha - rule #1. Small portions in Buffalo doesn't play too well. Even if the food was very good, pretentiousness like that in our city is way out of place.
Perhaps it will be more reasonable during their going out of business party.