a continuation of the last post

other than crepe myrtle
(the restaurant pictured in the last post),
my next request for my very short time in stillwater was:
thai cafe.

i would be linking these restaurants,
which is the proper blogger thing to do,
but what restaurant (or any establishment, for that matter)
in stillwater
is sophisticated enough to have a website?

this spot was another favorite of ours when we both lived here,
although we did not frequent it as much as crepe myrtle.


(iPhone pics again...sorry)

and, like my salad at crepe myrtle,
i order this dish every time:

''hi, i'd like the yellow curry with fresh tofu - not fried - spiced at a level 5 with a ginger salad, the vegetable soup and a water'' (my order, in case you were wondering)

when brett and pierce came to visit me in salzburg,
i gave them a tour that lasted, like, 8 hours.
they went on to germany and switzerland
and after all was said and done,
i asked brett what his favorite place was.
he said, ''hands down, salzburg.''
when i saw him in stillwater,
he was still talking about that tour
and asked me to pretend i'd never been to stillwater before
so he could give me a tour (of a town i lived in for 4 yrs).
and if you've ever been to stillwater,
you know that tour could last no more
than 15 minutes...

and like a true oklahoman, he works at eskimo joe's.

the only thing i can say to describe the following 2 photos
is what kaitlyn said in response to seeing them:
i guess being engaged gives me the security to make these stupid faces?



and here's pierce...


(to see more of pierce,
click here.)

oh and i cannot forget pierce and brett's tree...
in true griswold fashion,
they cut it down themselves
on their other roommate's land!
(something else i love about oklahoma:
everyone has ''land'', don't we?)

when i walked into their house and saw the tree,
i said, ''clark griswold!''
and they said, ''obviously.''

***

i somehow failed
to take any photos of my family during my time at home....
but our Christmas was nice and i should mention
that the highlight was getting our 'dad gift'.
my mom usually does all the shopping
but my dad gives us one 'dad present';
usually tools of some sort
(he is an engineer and an oklahoman -- enough said).
when my sisters and i were sorting the presents
on Christmas Eve night,
we noticed we each had a small box from my dad.
janie, my oldest sister, asked, ''i wonder what these are?''
(didn't look like tools.)
jessica, my middle sister, replied, ''he probably got us guns...''
turns out,
they were engraved bracelets
and when i opened mine i cried.
so much better than a gun!