Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Travel Plans & Other Activities

We have made our travel plans for our return trip to Middle Earth. I was starting to get a little frustrated with the price of airfare, and then stumbled upon a fantastic resource. Travel Team out of Seattle has taken care of all of our plans, for about half the price of other fares I found online. Seriously, if you are planning a trip to the South Pacific, send Dale at Travel Team an email. I would estimate that so far they have saved us about $5,000. (It will come in pretty handy when we are buying that new Robo Coupe.)

JB leaves Redmond on January 19, Conor and Mike on January 26, and I take flight on January 31. Tyler will be following after the mighty Sonoma Academy Wolves complete their basketball season in February. We are on hold with those plans just in case they make the playoffs.

We have completed the menu board and are fine-tuning the recipes. Some of them we are taking from popular items at Mexicali Rose and Baja Norte. Others we are developing fresh and new. We will have our famous carnitas and margaritas that have stood the test of time, and have mastered a wonderful new garlic-lime chicken marinade.

It's been great fun making a testing the new recipes. Today we even got our housekeepers Maria and Susanna into the mix. They suggested a little more salt and oregano for the veggie mix and it proved to be a very nice improvement!

Let's see . . . 25 days and counting until we get the keys!

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