Thursday, July 03, 2008

Cakes, cookies, bacon, and tattoos: 24 hours with my brother

Right now, my brother's neighbors are outside lighting off fireworks and talking really loudly in Spanish. The fireworks -- not the Spanish -- is driving most of the neighborhood dogs crazy, but my brother's roommate's dog is as cool as a cucumber.



So far, it's been a pretty busy 24 hours. Last night, after my flight landed, we went straight from the train station to grab food and then out to a bar where a bunch of my brother's friends seem to hang out. He knew about half the people in the bar, one of whom was painting glow-in-the-dark fake tattoos on people.

Here's mine:



I sort-of wanted to keep it, but eventually, my brother managed to convince me to shower.

This morning, we went for brunch at this awesome bakery that had the coolest cakes ever in the display window out front.





Then we went shopping, and on the way, saw this sign, which I thought was funny, and which my brother thought was perfectly normal:



I think I'm dedicating the picture to Jordan Baker, who seems to be obsessed with bacon.

Oh, and the shopping -- we went to Chinatown so my brother could pick up some kind of herbal medicine -- which loosely translates to the "Four Horsemen" and is meant to cure his spleen. No kidding. I got a bunch of fortune cookies -- normal and chocolate -- and fresh baked almond cookies -- all for under $3.00. And a picture of Confucius.



You know what would go perfectly with fresh-baked almond cookies? Green tea gelato. I'm gonna work on that as soon as I get an ice cream maker.


7 comments:

Miss Scarlet said...

I love bacon!

Malnurtured Snay said...

Almond cookies? Oatmeal raisin, please!

Paige Jennifer said...

Oh dear lord - that cake display? I would have had a FIT, crawling into the window with a fork and stuffing my face until my pant button popped. I loves me some cake. And yes, I know this is not a normal reaction.

matt said...

How odd. I live in that town and saw the free bacon sign for the first time two weeks ago. I'm still trying to figure out whether it's worth taking a bus 20 minutes just to find out if the sign is true.

Anonymous said...

It's "Four Gentlemen" aka Si Jun Zi Tang.

Ryane said...

I'm w/Paige on the cakes. How awesome!

dara said...

Scarlet: Bacon's good, but realistically, all you can eat bacon is a coronary incident waiting to happen.

Snay: Oatmeal raisin are my dad's favorite, but are one of my least favorite to make.

PJ & Ryane: I love cake, but I think the ones with the decorative fondant are probably prettier than they are tasty. You should have seen the display inside the store. I wound up getting a cupcake to go with my breakfast croissant -- yellow cake with chocolate hazelnut icing. It was delightful.

Matt: Note the above about all you can eat bacon being a "coronary incident waiting to happen." You do it at your own peril.

"Anonymous": Thanks for the correction. I was confusing the herbs with this.