{"id":3438,"date":"2011-06-19T03:59:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T03:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=3438"},"modified":"2011-06-19T05:58:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T05:58:58","slug":"i-swear-im-not-controlling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=3438","title":{"rendered":"I Swear I’m Not Controlling…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, maybe I am.*
\nHere’s my suggested schedule for when my brother and sister visit next week. But truly, these are suggestions and totally up for revision and spontaneity. It’s just that I find it reassuring to work with even an imagined schedule when dealing with nearly a dozen people. Especially food-wise. In my house.
\nIn preparation, I am stocking my freezer. So far I’ve made chicken enchiladas and chocolate chip cookie dough (frozen in little balls). Flax muffins, Caesar dressing, and spaghetti sauce to come. I’ll have a Korean ox-tail soup in the crock pot for the night they arrive.<\/p>\n

Possible restaurants: True Foods, Bistro K, Korean House BBQ or Shik Do Rak, Golondrinos<\/p>\n

Shortlist restaurants: Kogi Truck, Baja Fish Tacos, Upper Crust Pizza, Five Guys’ Burgers,<\/p>\n

Excursion options:<\/p>\n

LA for the day – Korean bath house! Chachangmyun (black bean sauce on noodles). Museum of Jurassic Technology<\/a>. Papa Cristo’s<\/a> for grilled baby octopus! (Papa Cristo’s is one of my favorite places of all time to eat – wonderful Greek food.)<\/p>\n

Strawberry picking at South Coast Farms, if the dates are right.<\/p>\n

Grunion Run<\/a> (you know, watching grunion fish mate and lay eggs in the wet sand at high tide on a full moon)<\/p>\n

Lego store at downtown Disney (mini-figure series 5<\/a> is expected to come out any moment now)<\/p>\n

June 25<\/strong> – Sue, Joss, Noi naa, Leela, and Songbae arrive at LAX at 7 pm. [oxtail soup<\/em>]
\nJune 26<\/strong> – Chill day – good day for the farmer’s market (tamales and ripe organic stone fruit) and the pool. [buttermilk pancakes for breakfast; chicken enchiladas for dinner<\/em>]
\nJune 27<\/strong> – Crystal Cove State Park Beach\u00c2\u00a0 [dinner at True Foods? cupcakes at Sprinkles?<\/em>]
\nJune 28<\/strong> – Paddle Boarding lesson from Fisherman’s Cove [grass-fed beef hamburgers with caesar salad<\/em>]
\nJune 29<\/strong> – Sue’s family goes to San Diego for a conference. Possibly a good day for Scripps Aquarium or wild seal-watching at Children’s Beach in La Jolla. [eat at Brockton Inn?<\/em>]
\nJune 30<\/strong> – either give Sue’s family a break from us, or go to the Children’s Museum which has been highly recommended.
\nJuly 1<\/strong> – ditto
\nJuly 2<\/strong> -USS Midway. Chad bikes down to meet us. Lunch either on boat at cafe or at the fish place by the India Star.
\nJuly 3<\/strong> – Sue and family return to Laguna Niguel [Korean BBQ at Sierra’s pool?<\/em>]
\nJuly 4<\/strong> – Picnic and fireworks at Laguna Niguel Regional Park [oven baked chicken, coleslaw, potato salad, peach cobbler<\/em>]
\nJuly 5<\/strong> – Chill day or creek play at O’Neill Regional Park (if water is still running…)[Denny’s-style breakfast with eggs, biscuits, sausage<\/em>]
\nJuly 6<\/strong> – Leave for the east coast all together from LAX.<\/p>\n

Things to cook while at mom and dad’s house: crockpot ribs, chili, maple-glazed pork tenderloin, lemon meringue pie.<\/p>\n

Things to make while on cruise: felted knitted mobius basket with Mom. Finish Leela’s crown. Teach Mom how to make artisan bread.<\/p>\n

Video below from last summer’s visit, almost exactly one year ago – clay play at Sierra’s house. They were so little back then. This visit, Leela, who was a 3-month not-even-crawling baby, will be walking!
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\n*I’ve even gone so far as to suggest cruise reading material for very member of my family – and am providing the books themselves. For a list of my suggestions check this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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