The purpose of the trip was to learn about the government charge cards, travel and purchase. I am the alternate POC for our District over the travel card and do some work with the purchase card too. Anyway, enough of the boring stuff!!
We had to get our shrimp cocktail at the Golden Gate!
We ate at Hugo's Cellar, downtown, for Brad's birthday. They do everything with a special touch, from giving the ladies a rose when they walk in to giving you sorbet to cleanse your palate before your entree comes. It was a great place to celebrate!
Brad and I had a wonderful time doing whatever we pleased for the most part. I think one of the best parts about the whole trip was the food. We laid out a plan of all the cuisines we wanted to hit up while we were there and they did not disappoint, except for the Italian. I probably should do a whole separate post on the restaurants alone, but here is a quick overview. We had sushi, Mexican, steak house, Asian, and Italian, all of which were pretty much around the hotel. The neat thing about that is that the hotel gave us coupons for the restaurants in there (makes total sense!). All of the food was great except for our last day and apparently we just did not have good luck in chosing restaurants. That day we had Asian for lunch and the service was terrible (the wait staff didn't know we existed) and that night was Italian (where your portions were tiny and the food wasn't that great).
At the Burger Bar at Mandalay Place - so good! Brad had a buffalo burger with blue cheese. It was neat because you got to chose your meat, your bread, and then all the fixings. We both tried to be a little different than normal and I think Brad did a better job than me by going with the buffalo (I just got plain old angus beef, I did venture out and get pesto on the burger).
Another highlight was seeing Carrot Top. I let Brad decide what show we would see. Back when Brad was at Auburn he saw Carrot Top and thought he was the funniest person ever. I had never seen him and thought it was going to be pretty stupid (knowing that I owed this to Brad after dragging him to countless musicals). Boy was I wrong!! I was laughing just as hard as Brad, if not more. I had no clue that Carrot Top's signature thing was his props! The whole thing cracked me up and I would totally go back again.
While we were gone Nanny and PaPaw watched Paige for us. I know they all had a great time!!
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