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Cumberland EAA Pancake Fly In 4/26/2009

Mike — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:16:38 +0000

Katherine and I flew out to Cumberland Airport this past sunday for their first Pankcake breakfast of the year. They hold it every sunday, rain or shine, from April till October. Hopefully I’ll be able to make it out a couple more times this year (even if i have to drive).

Good food, friendly pilots, and lot of planes to see. Stearman, Gyrocopter, Baby Great Lakes, and other great planes.

Katherine manned the video camera and caught my 2 landings of the day and our take off from Cumberland.

Gator Bites

Mike — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:52:06 +0000

While we were in Florida we went to a crab place for dinner. Hating any and all sea food I ordered hot wings (the hottest on the menu) and a burger. Katherine ordered gator bites as an appetizer. She then asked if i would try them, and I politely said no (read as: “Hell NO!”). After the wings and the gator bites came out Katherine asked again, and I said I would if she tried one of the wings.

At the time i figured i was going to hate the gator bite and her mouth would be on fire. Regretably, The outcome was that I liked the gator bite and her mouth was on fire.

Gator bites taste a lot like veal, so if you like baby cow you’d probably like a gator bite. There isn’t a fishy smell/flavor to them at all, which surprised me. I still feel kinda bad about her taking that wing …

Adventures in Eating, Part 1

Katherine — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:00:59 +0000

After making a trip to the dump this morning to dispose of a futon mattress smelling of cat urine, Mike and I traveled to Cumberland in search of food. We wanted to try something new, so we decided to drive around until we found a restaurant at which we felt like eating. For some absurd reason, many of the restaurants in Cumberland were closed, because apparently Saturday afternoons are the time for everyone to stay home. We finally found an open restaurant called Midtown Bar and Grille (yes, with the retarded “e” at the end, I don’t know why). We walked in and the waitress told us to sit anywhere. We chose a tall bar table with two chairs and seated ourselves. In a moment, the waitress brought over place mats and silverware wrapped in a napkin and asked us if we’d ever been to the restaurant before. We answered negatively. As the waitress was addressing us, I was wondering why she hadn’t brought us any menus. She then informed us of their special for the day: fried chicken with mashed potatoes, coleslaw, and maybe some other things. Then she stood there looking at us. I asked her if there were any other choices. She said, “No.” SHE SAID, “NO!” What kind of restaurant only serves one dish? It was completely ridiculous. I told the waitress that we were looking for a restaurant with a little more variety and we stood up to leave. She said, “No problem. Come back when you’re in the mood for chicken.” Yeah, like that will happen.