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The Slow Road
Nov. 26th, 2010 11:02 pmWe got away from the hotel in Fairfield this morning without incident, bound for downtown San Jose, but we had many stops to make along the way, and we also ended up making some extra incidental stops.
( 85 miles in 5 hours )
Closing out for the day, Lisa and I headed out for dinner. Immediately across the street from the hotel in the Plaza de Cesar Chavez where Christmas in the Park was celebrating its first night of the event, which fills the Plaza from now until Christmas. We admired the exhibits and displays and carnival rides and skirted the fire-and-brimstone preacher who was haranguing the crowd from the fringes of the festival while we walked down to San Pedro Square. We first thought we'd go to the Old Spaghetti Factory, but there was a 30-minute wait to be seated, so we went across the street to the Sonoma Chicken Coop where we got our food probably before we would have been seated at OSF. I had spaghetti anyway, albeit shrimp with marinara sauce instead of meat-and-mizithra cheese at OSF. Lisa praised the BBQ chicken pizza she had, and we shared a tub of calamari. I offered a piece of the fried seafood to Kuma Bear, who seemed indifferent. Probably he was put out that I hadn't ordered the salmon risotto.
Returning to the hotel, we briefly went to the opening reception in the Grand Suite and the other two parties that were just getting into going (it was only just past 9 PM), but we realized how tired we were and decided to retreat to the hotel room early.
We hadn't really unpacked until then, and that's when I discovered that the room has a little mini-fridge — probably a former pay-per-item bar. I wish we'd know that before; I'd not noticed it the room descriptions. Had we known, we could have bought a few perishables like milk and such, but by then we did not feel like going back out again to get groceries. Still, it's good to know this is here since we'll be here for four nights next weekend rather than the two we have this weekend.
( 85 miles in 5 hours )
Closing out for the day, Lisa and I headed out for dinner. Immediately across the street from the hotel in the Plaza de Cesar Chavez where Christmas in the Park was celebrating its first night of the event, which fills the Plaza from now until Christmas. We admired the exhibits and displays and carnival rides and skirted the fire-and-brimstone preacher who was haranguing the crowd from the fringes of the festival while we walked down to San Pedro Square. We first thought we'd go to the Old Spaghetti Factory, but there was a 30-minute wait to be seated, so we went across the street to the Sonoma Chicken Coop where we got our food probably before we would have been seated at OSF. I had spaghetti anyway, albeit shrimp with marinara sauce instead of meat-and-mizithra cheese at OSF. Lisa praised the BBQ chicken pizza she had, and we shared a tub of calamari. I offered a piece of the fried seafood to Kuma Bear, who seemed indifferent. Probably he was put out that I hadn't ordered the salmon risotto.
Returning to the hotel, we briefly went to the opening reception in the Grand Suite and the other two parties that were just getting into going (it was only just past 9 PM), but we realized how tired we were and decided to retreat to the hotel room early.
We hadn't really unpacked until then, and that's when I discovered that the room has a little mini-fridge — probably a former pay-per-item bar. I wish we'd know that before; I'd not noticed it the room descriptions. Had we known, we could have bought a few perishables like milk and such, but by then we did not feel like going back out again to get groceries. Still, it's good to know this is here since we'll be here for four nights next weekend rather than the two we have this weekend.
