The Forbidden City Peking Duck at Duck de Chine… Our palatial Chairman’s Suite at the Beijing Hotel NUO! Meat-on-a-Stick at Wangfujing! In honor of our Third Second Honeymoon (which I had emailed them about when I booked…), the gorgeous and historic Beijing Hotel NUO (originally Raffles) gave us an Read more…
Shanghai at night on the Huangpu River Classic 1930s Jazz at the Jazz Bar at the Peace Hotel Cruise on the Huangpu River The Bullet Train to Beijing! As I mentioned in my previous post, we first went to the historic Peace Hotel on our Shanghai-Lander “Breakfast and Bund” Tour, Read more…
Tongli Water Town Xitang Water Town Tongli Water Town Our Tongli Gondolier! Cormorants – Tongli Water Town Our third day in Shanghai we took an excellent full-day tour to two of the beautiful Water Towns, Tongli and Xitang, near Shanghai, with Miki Tours. I booked this tour through Viator, as Read more…
Hand-Pulling Noodles… MARVELOUS Shanghai Soup Dumplings! Shanghai Tea House Making THE best soup dumplings! THE best Shanghai breakfast WonTons! We did a lot of fun things during our five first days in China in Shanghai, but because this was a “foodie-centric” trip, I am going to devote this Read more…
Baiju tasting…. Tea in Shanghai… On a boat in one of the “Water Towns”… Yummy “meat-on-a-stick”! Learning to make dumplings Steam Train… Bullet Train… Harbin Ice Festival Terracotta Warriors… Pandas! My chef husband and I just came back from an amazing month in China- a 40+ year dream of Read more…
Mark Twain and Elisse at the Elkhorn Inn In October, the Elkhorn Inn had a Very special Mark Twain Weekend, with Doug Riley, the historian and actor who personifies Mark Twain (and Stonewall Jackson) for the West Virginia Humanities’ Council’s “History Alive!” Program! One of the “added treats” for our guests, Read more…
My six faithful readers know that I am a Terrible Sweeper/Contest Enterer, and that as a year ends I like to thank the wonderful companies and organizations who have made my wins possible! My sweeping hobby started 15 years ago when I entered Oil of Olay’s “My Most Romantic Summer” Read more…
My favorite expression for how we celebrate Hanukkah at the Elkhorn Inn is: “Go Big or Go Home”! This year, I’m happy to say, we outdid ourselves. LOL Known, by my own self-proclamation, as the “Martha Stewart of Inflatable Decor”, over the years, and thanks in great measure to eBay, Read more…
I was deployed by FEMA to Montana following a disaster declaration for spring floods as the Community Relations Field Specialist Lead for Yellowstone County, based in Billings. If you’ve ever wondered what a FEMA Community Relations Field Specialist does, we’re essentially the “eyes and ears” of FEMA in the field, Read more…
The Elkhorn Inn & Theatre is proud to introduce a GREAT new product in our Gift Shop: Grillo’s Essentials all-natural, essential oil insect repellent! West Virginia is #AlmostHeaven, but it’s also “Land of Ticks”- and this REALLY works- better than the poisons- to keep the bugs away- and you can Read more…