1-29-2011

So last weekend, we went to Akron to try a locally famous cheeseburger place. This weekend, Nicole insisted we continue the tour and go to Skyway Drive-In to eat more cheeseburgers. I'm a big fan of classic Americana style fast food drive-ins where you park outside and they run to the car to take your order. I'm especially fond of the trays that attach to your car kind of like the speakers at a drive-in movie theater. Now the thing about Skyway is that its territory overlaps with that of Swensons. Bloods/Crips, Coke/Pepsi, Nikon/Canon...you know the deal. While impressed that their cheeseburgers were very good, way better than 90% of popular national fast food chains, Swensons still wins for sure. Between the signature burgers, The Gally Boy is just better than the Sky Hi (pictured above), and the onion rings and fried mushrooms just seemed too oily at Skyway. I would still say that this place is worth checking out though.

As not to exclusively blog about food all the time, here's an arty and pretty typical picture of Nicole from today.

1-28-2011

This is Fitz and the Tantrums. We went to see them tonight and I took lots of pictures. Like probably too many pictures. Really though, it's sort of like "shooting fish in a barrel" when everyone is under colorful lights and the singer thinks he's pretty and likes to perform for a camera. Don't get me wrong, I think he's pretty too, and loved that he played it up for pictures. I just ended up with a memory card full of funny faces like this and this and this. I think another reason that I took a million pictures of a dude was because he reminds me of Morrissey but with a white stripe in his hair instead of pompadour. So here are some more. I think that's all of them anyway.

The girl on the other hand moved around all over the place the whole time when she wasn't singing. The only time I really got a picture that wasn't blurry was when she was drinking water. Well maybe not the only time.

The rest of the Tantrums were fun to take pictures of too. This is saxophone guy. He played the flute too, but I only got him when he was playing this. They also stepped on things. It was this guy's birthday.

The show was super fun though, and I would definitely go to see them again.

It was pretty late by the time we were going home, and I could only think of one worthwhile place on the way that was open...but it's so worthwhile. This is Whitmores a.k.a. barbecued meat heaven. It may look unassuming, but don't underestimate it. This is so serious. I keep saying I'm not going to apologize for eating meat this year, but eating that as a bedtime snack is just plain wrong.