Karin's Adventures - 06_having_fun

Dinner at Eddie Merlot's

noreply@blogspirit.com (Karin Brenig) — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:00:00 -0500

Today we used the $100 gift card that came with my Team Spirit Award and went to dine out at Eddie Merlot's.

We ordered *Steak Diane for Two*. Tom had a glass of Rioja with it -since I volunteered to be the designated driver. We enjoyed excellent service, a delicious meal, a stylish atmosphere - and bought a dozen lemon filled doughnuts at Krispy Kreme, right next door, on our way home.

Steak Diane for Two
Filet Mignon prepared to your request, flamed tableside with Cognac, mushrooms and herbed mustard demi-glace served with Eddie's potatoes.

Easter walk in the woods

noreply@blogspirit.com (Karin Brenig) — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:20:00 -0500

My daughter spent twelve days in Fort Wayne, visiting for the first time since her move back to Munich. The weather wasn't really cooperating, but we still followed our family tradition and went for a walk in the woods on Easter Sunday.

The Bicentennial Woods nature preserve, where we like to go for walks, must have been partially flooded. The place was very muddy, one of the bridges over the creek was broken and unusable.

Tom was the only one equipped with appropriate footwear for this kind of trail - so we had to make it a short walk.

Batman is back

noreply@blogspirit.com (Karin Brenig) — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:15:00 -0500

I've been working at Indiana Tech for over a year now - long enough that you would think I should have seen this before. But I haven't. Today a colleague entered our office saying *Batman is back*. When I asked *who is Batman?*, he took me out into the hallway.

And there he was - you can only see Batman on a sunny day, in spring, for a few hours in the afternoon. That is when the sunlight and the cardboard display in the window paint Batman's shadow onto the floor of our hallway.

Big Butter Jesus

noreply@blogspirit.com (Karin Brenig) — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:10:00 -0500

On my way to work in the mornings I usually listen to the *Bob & Tom show* on 92.3 'The Fort', Fort Wayne's self-proclaimed *number 1 classic rock station*. One of their frequent guests on the show is Heywood Banks, a local comedian, whom I saw on stage at the Snickerz Comedy Club once.

Today they played one of his songs, which is the kind that you can easily sing along with, and then keep spinning it around in your head for the rest of the day. It's called *big butter Jesus* and was inspired by a statue in Southern Ohio.