Burnt Orange Ice Cream (Page 854)
RECIPE #744
- Date: Monday, May 26, 2008 -- 11:30pm
- Location: Somerville, MA
- Kitchen: Matty's Apartment
- Dining Companions: Matty and Russ P.
- Recipe Rating: C+
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My best friend Emilee's younger brother graduated from the West Point Military Academy this week, so my special gentleman and I drove down there for a few days to celebrate with them. Em and Brian traveled there from California with baby Sam, who I hadn't seen since the day he was born. On Friday we went to the graduation parade. One picture is Emilee and Sam watching the parade (ok, ok, maybe Sam isn't exactly watching...). The other is a picture of the graduating class.
We had a fun trip down there, but it was also very odd. We stayed at a Medieval-themed Resort and Spa (how that happened is a long story...). This place was weird -- more than weird, it was creepy. Apparently built in 1971, this "resort" clearly hadn't been upgraded or repaired in the last 35 years. The Medieval-theme translated to dark, dank rooms and hallways, and scary furniture and light fixtures everywhere. The other clientele seemed to be exclusively 250+ pound men in wife beaters, covered with tatoos -- a cigarette in one hand and a beer in the other. The "resort" was essentially empty though (imagine that!) which only added to the creepiness! I have traveled a lot, but this was hands-down the weirdest hotel I have ever been in. Despite being a "resort and spa" the rooms had no clocks in them, no irons, no hair dryers, no extra pillows or blankets, not even a Gideon Bible. The first couple hours we were there, as we wandered around the grounds of the place, I couldn't stop laughing. It was just so absurd. Everything was called a "palace" or a "kingdom," yet was completely in shambles. It was funny.
Despite the creepiness, our trip was fun, and certainly memorable.
3 comments:
Oh, Teena -- that sounds bad. No, wait: BA-A-ADDD. Yeah, that seems more to the point.
Anyway, please, please, please take the time to go to TripAdvisor.com and post something about it. I'm the family travel agent, and I rely on the honesty of people like you (i.e., non-whiny) to say when a place is truly horrific.
Wow! Tha hotel sounds so scary!
I never thought citrus flavor goes well with ice cream.
It's more like a sherbet kinda thing.
Magdalen: I went to TripAdvisor.com to post something, but discovered it was unnecessary, as the reviews of the place are already TERRIBLE. Here's snippet I found pretty funny:
"The atmosphere is 1970's pseudo-Camelot kitsch and there is a smell of mold everywhere. As other reviews have mentioned, the desk staff is surly and yes, the guy screwed up my checkout as well because he 'couldn't find my record of having paid....oh, um....yeah.....here it is." Not even a "Sorry" from him. Finally, this may be nit-picking but they KNEW we were a group of wildlife rehabbers -- "ANIMAL PEOPLE" -- and yet they served (urk!) VEAL at every single meal. And told people it was chicken. 'Nuff said. I'd never go there again for any reason."
Eileen: Yeah I agree. I would have much rather made an orange sherbet!
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