Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Yup, it's March Madness. Thank goodness for CBS broadcasting the first three rounds online. It's not HD, but it beats by a mile soccer, cricket, rugby, horse racing, snooker, and any other sport they televise here all combined.

Right now I'm watching the 'Nova-Kentucky game on replay. Have to scout for the 'Hawks next game.

Other odds and ends on this St. Patrick's Day morning (have you had your Guinness yet?)

Wife and I went to Oxford last weekend to check out the town and universities. It was a really cool college town, but it definitely wasn't a typical weekend. It must have been some kind of end of term because there were a ton of parents thre helping their kids move out of the dorms.

We got there in the late morning and took off wandering. Wife will cover the sites on her blog, so I'll cover lunch. Our guidebook said one of the best restaurants was a place called Quod. It was geared toward Mediterranean cuisine and sounded pretty good. It did not disappoint.

When we walked in I was afraid we wouldn't get a table because the place was packed, but we lucked into a small table. For an appetizer we split an order of fried squid. It was perfectly cooked: lightly crispy, just the smallest bit chewy but not tough at all, and very tasty. Main courses were a wild mushroom and goat's cheese pizza for Wife and porcini ravioli with parsley butter for me. Wife and I both agreed that the pizza was one of the best if not the best pizza we'd ever had. The ravioli had a wonderful mushroom flavor with a lot of parmesan as well.

Dessert was a blackberry and apple crumble with vanilla ice cream. Needless to say we pretty much had to role out of the restaurant after all that food.

But sometimes something like that can't compare to a homemade quesadilla when you're hungry for Mexican food. That's what we had last night to go with our basketball watching (along with lots of Corona of course).

Unfortunately there's not much of anything more exciting than that to report. Next month should be a lot more exciting because we're headed to Ireland for Easter and then Paris for our anniversary. That should be fun because we're taking the high speed train from London to Paris.

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