Travel plans, the Joy of Pork, and the return of Sakura…

I’ve finished Da Capo SS through episode 22 now, and as always happens, the plot kicked right into gear after the show was a bit over half over.

Sakura’s back!

Finally, some of the “let’s dance around issues from the first series” nonsense is ending!

Aisia and Sakura seem headed for a showdown, and that makes me Happy Fanboy.

The only mild downer is that, of course, Nemu is going to wind up as the big winner at the end of the show and Kotori and Sakura are going to be left out in the cold.

But enough soap opera updates.

My boss’s final day was today, so we all went out to a really quite nice Peruvian restaurant.  Peruvian is not a cuisine I’ve ever sampled before, and I really had no clue what to expect… Ordering almost completely blind introduced me to a pork dish that I will be remembering for a while… and now I’m faced with the absolute impossibility of trying to describe food I’ve never had before and that was described using adjectives that were either not in English or in English, but using words I’ve never had to encounter before.  It had, uh, pork, and apples, and some kind of marinade, and ravioli for no logical reason, and it was, uh, yummy, and while it’s a shame to see my boss move on to other jobs, it meant a mighty fine dinner out for me, so moderate win.

And for dessert there was Flan.  Can’t go wrong with Flan.

Alaska Airlines is having a really sweet deal on airline tickets if you order them by Mar. 30th and travel by November, so it looks like we’re going to try to do a longish weekend in Victoria, BC, in September.   I’m looking forward to it, since I’ve never visited our Canadian neighbors to the north.  I understand they’re awfully nice people.

Between that and the 8-day Alaska jaunt in July, this summer is looking pretty packed with travel.  Life is good.