Wednesday, February 16, 2011

cheap hotel rates


San Diego Cheap Hotel Rates

San Diego offers some of the finest beaches along the west coast. With over 70 miles of coastline and easy access to the beaches of both Baja California and Orange County make San Diego the beach capitol of California.

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With its great weather, miles of sandy beaches, and major attractions, San Diego is known worldwide as one of the best tourist destinations. Attractions include a visit to the San Diego Wild Animal Park, a safari to many of the world's most exotic places, museums, Zoo and much more.

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Over 35 million travelers visit Las Vegas every year. Around 7 million of those people are visiting Las Vegas for the first time. Before a visit to Las Vegas, there’s a good idea first to check the hotel rates Las Vegas, so we can ensure the funds we need to stay there.

Las Vegas hotel offers a range of tariffs, ranging from the inexpensive to the expensive. If our funds are limited, we can choose to stay in the hotel which is located far from the main road. This is some of Las Vegas hotel rates from the cheap to expensive that you can use to manage your funds:
accommodation on the Strip. Look into hotels that are not on Las Vegas Boulevard. It is very easy to find a cheap hotel in Las Vegas once you know where to look.

Plan your Las Vegas trip well ahead to get the best rates for a cheap hotel in Las Vegas. An amazing 63 percent of Las Vegas visitors book at least two weeks in advance. If you call the Las Vegas hotel with your Travel Axe deal they will usually try and beat the Travel Axe offer and you will get a very cheap hotel in Las Vegas as a result.

Hotel rates Las Vegas can vary depending on the holiday or event specific. Usually on the weekend, rate will be increased to 25%, it usually happens on Saturday and Sunday. When the holiday season hotel rates Las Vegas can be higher again, up to 50% - 100%.
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Castle Creek Inn is an exclusive, romantic boutique style Resort and Spa, located in scenic San Diego North County.Adjacent to a beautiful 18-hole championship golf course, Castle Creek Inn is nestled amidst the picturesque foothills of Temeculas Wineries, within minutes of the world-famous San Diego Wild Animal Park, Southern California beaches, the luxurious Harrahs Rincon, Pala and Pechanga casinos, and just 35 minutes north of downtown San Diego.Originally designed and built by San Diegos infamous financier, J. David Dominelli, most of the Resorts antiques and fine furnishings were purchased in Bavaria, Germany, and are representative of the German nobility of that time.Accommodations include 30 luxurious mini suites with French doors and private balconies/patios, and an exclusive 3 bedroom, 3 bath Villa, offering spectacular views of the golf course and rolling foothi

Monday, February 14, 2011

Crock-Pot Lasagne--Yeah! You heard it right!


Hi everyone. I have to admit that this one sounds crazy. I was not a believer at first either. But it turns out that you can actually make a delicious lasagna in your crock-pot. It's also relatively easy compared to the standard lasagna.

I can't take credit for this one completely. We got this from a magazine called Real Simple and thought it sounded too interesting to pass up. I do, however, take credit for being brave enough to try it! It was well worth the 10 minute prep and 3 1/2 hour wait time!

Here is how it is done:





Ingredients

2 10 oz packages of frozen spinach (chopped)
1 cup of ricotta cheese
3/4 cups of grated Parmesan cheese
3 cups of grated mozzarella cheese
6-7 regular lasagna noodles
1 jar of your favorite Marinara sauce

Directions
1. Thaw and drain excess water from spinach
2. In a bowl, mix together the spinach, ricotta, and Parmesan cheese
3. In a second bowl, mix together the marinara and 1/2 cup of water
4. Spread 3/4 cup of the marinara mixture on the bottom of your crock-pot.
5. Top with two noodles (you have to break them to fit), 3/4 cup of the remaining marinara mixture, half of the spinach mixture, and 1/2 cup of the mozzarella.
6. Repeat step 5.
7. Top with remaining mozzarella cheese.
8. Cover and cook on low for 3 1/2 to 4 hours until noodles are cooked.

Enjoy! This is so easy and very delicious. I dare you to try it!

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Space Invaders Infinity Gene review

Space Invaders is a pretty old vimeo game. It's one of those games that it's cool to tell people you like it. Sort of like how people will talk about how they love to play Pac-Man or how the best vimeo game ever is Galaga. They're okay games I guess, if you like to ignore every single better game that has come out since then - which these people probably do. Either that or these people just like these games for the cooldude points they get from talking to other people who know even less about vimeo games than they do. I hardly ever play these games, and I bet the people who claim they love them have played them even less than I have. I don't feel like reviewing the original Space Invaders from 1978, so here's a review of a new version of it I played on PS3 that was released recently:

Space Invaders Infinity Gene
- developer: Taito
- publisher: Square-Enix
- for: iOS
- ports for: Xdude 360, PS3
- on: you can't display it on a shelf because it's a download
- released: 2009/07/27 (iOS), 2010/09/14 (PS3), 2010/09/15 (Xdude 360)
- type of vimeogame: Spaceship Shooting Game

At first this game is like Space Invaders. You get a spaceship that can only move left and right, and it sucks at shooting. And then the game changes and becomes completely different as you keep playing, giving you things like super rapid fire, the ability to move everywhere on the screen, and different weapons to choose from before starting a stage. The game will tell you some quote about evolving and adapting while it does this. I guess you're supposed to adapt to Space Invaders becoming not Space Invaders. The original Space Invaders had an interesting thing going on with the destructible barriers between you and the aliens, and how you're going to automatically lose if you don't make sure to kill all the bad guys, but this game is all tons of bad guy formations flying around all over the place while you whale on them.

There are wire frame graphics everywhere in this game. It looks kind of boring. In addition to the standard alien enemies, there's a bunch of random shapes that fly around for you to shoot at. All your favorites are here, such as star, hexagon, the other hexagon with two lines in it, large wireframe battleships with rectangles inside of them, and I think I even saw octadecahedrons.

I quickly found the real reason to play this game: the Music Mode. What the game does is take a music file you pick from the hard drive, and then construct a stage based on that file while it plays that music as the stage music. I had a lot of fun playing music from other spaceship shooting games and pretending to myself that I was playing a better spaceship shooting game instead of Space Invaders Infinity Gene. Also fun is playing music that is totally inappropriate for a spaceship shooting game, like Lady Gaga music. I guess that you could just instead play any other spaceship shooting game with the music volume set at zero and have something playing on your laptop though, and it'd be better. This game only lets you have one song per music stage and do one music stage at a time, so when the boss appears, it just loops the song from the beginning again. I've never felt the need to change a game's music something else though. Games's normal music always suits them just fine, unless I'm making a youtube video of me playing the game. Then I would have to replace the normal music with Korn.

I rate this spaceship shooting game 0 out of 2.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Wisdom of the world - Week 139

Perfect

Mulla Nasrudin was sitting in a tea shop when a friend came excitedly to speak with him. “I’m about to get married. Mulla,” his friend stated, “and I’m very excited. Mulla , have you ever thought of marriage yourself?” Nasrudin replied, “I did think of getting married. In my youth in fact I very much wanted to do so. I waited to find for myself the perfect wife. I travelled looking for her, first to Damascus. There I met a beautiful woman who was gracious, kind and deeply spiritual, but she had no worldly knowledge. I travelled further and went to Isphahan. There I met a woman who was both spiritually and worldly, beautiful in many ways, but we did not communicate well. Finally I went to Cairo and there after much searching I found her. She was spiritually deep, graceful, and beautiful in every respect, at home and in the world and at home in the realms beyond it. I felt I had found the perfect wife.” His friend questioned further, “Then you did not marry her Mulla?” “Alas,” said Nasrudin as he shook his head, “She was, unfortunately, waiting for the perfect husband.”

Happy Pyon Pyon Year

That's how the Japanese describe rabbit to little children. Pyon pyon... while saying that, I remembered imitating the rabbit jump.

My sister is a pyon pyon, a mommy pyon now. The last time I saw her, she was having a tummy with a 5-month Tung Tung inside. This is already Tung Tung 2nd year celebrating Chinese New Year, and I've never met her in real life yet. One thing for sure, she looks so much like the 50% daddy and 50% mommy.

I received a surprising Ang Pow from my boss. So nice to be still receiving Ang Pow though my status is now shifted to the one that should give out Ang Pows.

Called mom and dad on the 2nd day of CNY. I didn't get to talk to as many friends as previous years. Not even my pyon pyon sis. Now I am wondering should I still call and say CNY to those unscratched names on my list.

Six more days, and the rabbit celebration will be over. But I think the rabbit year has been very nice to me. Except that it is making me sick and putting on weight. I'm not complaining though.

Happy Chinese New Year.

I know this is not sounding like a CNY post at all. Maybe I am just feeling a bit sentimental now.

It was a beautiful date yesterday, 02.11.2011

I should have written a post then.

XOXO, Fish Fish

Friday, February 11, 2011

Miami Beach Hotels





In Miami, even where you stay is a fashion statement. Miami hotels are a living museum of twentieth century architectural style. The charmingly restored historic clapboard houses of the Miami River Inn date back to 1906. The 1926 Mediterranean revivalist Biltmore Hotel features a bell tower modeled after the Cathedral of Seville, and the largest hotel pool in the continental U.S. Now the Setai, the 1930s Art Deco Dempsey Vanderbilt Hotel has been fully remodeled inside with teak-and-silk Asian glamour. The 1940 Art Deco masterpiece Raleigh Hotel has had its interiors redone with a bygone Cuba theme, and it’s highlight is a palm lined swimming pool once featured in Esther Williams movies. The 1953 Art Moderne DiLido Hotel is now the Ritz Carlton South Beach, featuring ocean liner themes and synchronized swimmers in the pool. The postmodern interiors of the Delano Hotel were designed by Philippe Starck in 1995 to evoke Greek islands.

Chic Sleeps

Half the fun of staying at a Miami hotel is the chance of rubbing shoulders with a superstar in the lobby. The beautiful beachside Shore Club is rightly famous for hosting the famous. You’ll never know whom you might run into at its popular and trendy Skybar. The ultra-cool Hotel Victor offers lacquered ebony furnishings and satin headboards, and features a jellyfish theme: from the sculpted crystal light fixtures to the real deal swimming in the lobby aquarium.
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Gardening Courses at Milkwood Farm, Co. Leitrim


Gardening Courses at Milkwood Farm,
Co. Leitrim
2011


Milkwood Farm is the home and garden of Klaus, Joanna and their four children with Benwiskin on one side and acres of wild bogland all around. With draining the land and composting the soil a garden can be given birth.


Details



Saturday 19th March: Beginner’s hands-on Gardening Course
A practical workshop on how to start your vegetable garden. This workshop will involve digging, sowing, planting, making beds, composting. It is aimed at the complete novices to vegetable gardening.


Saturday 30th April: Your Self-Sufficient Garden
Learn how to grow nearly all the food your family eats. Learn how to set up, prepare and plant your own organic vegetable garden. Practical demonstrations will be carried out so all participants get hands on ideas for their own gardens.

Saturday 14th May: Growing in Polytunnels/Greenhouses
A polytunnel or glasshouse extends the season for many crops, providing something to harvest all year round. It can also be used for tender vegetable crops, cut herbs and unusual tropical plants. This course will cover ground preparation, crop rotation, propagation, soil fertility management, pest and disease prevention and control.


Saturday 18th June: Grow Your Own Vegetables and Fruit
This course will take you through the season from garden to larder. Learn of the wide variety which you can grow on your doorstep. This will cover crop rotations, sowing plans and learn how it is possible to grow any vegetable and fruit that takes your fancy.

Saturday 17th September: Growing in Polytunnels/Greenhouses
Course details see Saturday 14th May.


All courses will be held at Milkwood Farm, Tawley, Co. Leitrim by Klaus Laitenberger former Head Gardener at the Organic Centre and Lissadell House.

All courses run from 10.30am – 4.00pm

Price €80 which includes coffee and scones on arrival and a home cooked organic lunch washed down with a glass of wine.

For more information and booking phone Joanna or Klaus at 071-9131855 or 087 7612251

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Complete Vegetable Gardening Course
8 full days - €600

This course is aimed at anybody who wants to learn how to grow healthy organic vegetables, salads, herbs and fruit for the home garden. It is suitable for the complete beginner as well as for the more advanced gardeners. During each day there will be a practical element where participants will learn what to do in their garden each month. There will also be theoretical and practical sessions on topics such as planning, rotation, soil fertility, composting, green manuring, organic pest, disease and weed control, growing in tunnels and greenhouses, fruit and herb growing

Day 1: 12th March

Day 2: 2nd April

Day 3: 7th May

Day 4: 11th June

Day 5: 2nd July

Day 6: 6th August

Day 7: 3rd September

Day 8: 1st October

Courses at other locations for gardening groups can also be organised. Please CONTACT US for more details.  See the WEBSITE