OH MY GOD

I am so flipping depressed....I just went to Sushimania and it looks like the place has been sold :(
WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

they had one of those yellow paper signs on the door that indicate someone else has applied for a license at that location or change of ownership or something.... Inside the employees were the same, but no Hidei. I couldn't bring myself up to ask what had happened because I had no support crew with me and was afraid I would lose my shit. It's an end of an era....I have been going there for 8 years....I can't believe I have to find a new sushi place....I feel so abandoned.

Chester has graciously volunteered to go there with me next week to find out what's going on...

Some past sushimania highlights

No more running!

FOOEY! I quit!

Just kidding...I am actually only taking 2 weeks off running as my knee has decided to be a pain in, well, my leg - lol. It is unfortunate but if I sit down for too long, my right knee will cramp up and basically get "stuck." It is then painful to straighten it out and almost 'creaky' when I try to move/use it.

Some suggestions have been that I have Baker's cyst and will need to get my knee drained (gross) and others are that I have a soft tissue injury from over use (sounds less gross). Nonetheless, my decided mode of recovery has been to spend more time sitting on my bony ass (trying to gain some weight) and getting back to all those things I ignored during marathon training (my life).

Although if anyone has some insight into my knee pain that would be super-fabu

New family

Post Brunch pic...I think it is fairly obvious which parents and kids go together...

the path to marriage...

is an unpaved walkway down to the beach... A few weeks ago Forrest and I drove up to Sea Ranch to finalize some wedding details, meet all the vendors and have the much awaited meeting of the parents.... things went pleasantly well...

Coming home...

More Ice Cream please

Vermont is a very pleasant and pretty place but there isn't a whole lot to do there... During our visit we went to:

• New England Culinary Academy
• Lake Champlain
• Ben & Jerry's factory
• Maple Sugar Farm
• Montpelier (capital)
• Quechee (Simon Pierce HQ, and Quechee gorge)

I think that probably covered about 90% of the things you can possibly do in VT....

grow your own cows

fun little painted beans sold as "cow seeds" at the Ben & Jerry's factory.

fancy cakes

display case at the new england culinary academy

do you see what i see?

i can't believe someone was actually trying to sell this shit.

F's instead os S's

Apparently back in the day, they didn't use the letter "s" sometimes. If anyone can provide some insight into that, I would appreciate it...because it makes no sense to me...lol Maybe all the pilgrims had lisps?

Dinner at Union Oyster House

If you are ever in Boston, you MUST make it out to Union Oyster House...it is the oldest restaurant in the country. The food is standard New England fair with lots of assorted seafood served either boiled, broiled or fried. My suggestion is the Shore Dinner which is just a single serving clam bake.... The above pic has Hollis' mom and Lauren on the left and Sal, Hollis and me on the right...

More than halfway there...

Yes I may look like I am smiling, but inside I was really dying. Of course, given my luck the first marathon I run has to be in the worst weather in the history of the Boston Marathon...ugh. As if 3-5 inches of rain per day wasn't enough, temperatures were in the 30's and gale force winds..

But I did finish...about 30 minutes after my target time and cried afterwards...not tears of joy, but more like a temper tantrum.

cute sign made and shipped by Hiroko to Forrest so he can hold it out during the race

Poncho Forrest

he looks like one of those Russian stacking dolls, but it's really just a garbage bag with a hole cut out of it. In an effort to hold back all the rain, Forrest picked up some garbage bags and tried to make me additional raingear.