The Harvest Grill

The inspection for our apartment went well. We had suspected that they were going to renovate our apartment and drastically increase the rent, so we weren't sure how much cleaning to actually do. We ended up cleaning quite extensively, but after all that they didn't even go in to the bedrooms. The owner just opened up the fridge, said it was cleaner than his, and said everything looked fine and he'd mail me my cheque within a week. That's great, but it's still kind of frustrating. A bunch of our stuff, including the computer, is loaded on the bus and we won't see it again for a week. Here's hoping it gets there safely.

Since we had to turn over the keys after the inspection, we're staying the night in a hotel. Our original reservation was cancelled on us because apparently they have a policy where they don't rent rooms to locals, only they decided to tell us about it on the day of our reservation! Needless to say we weren't too happy about this. The room we ended up staying in was expensive and small, but it had a free shuttle to the airport.

We'd gone to the restaurant in the hotel with my grandma for brunch on one occasion and were horribly disappointed. The food was not good, the staff was condescending and it was more expensive than anywhere else in town. We were definitely not impressed. Having really no other option, I checked it out by myself for dinner and was pleasantly surprised. I was the only person in there and the two Thai ladies that presumably own it helped me. I read the newspaper while they prepared my Thai shrimp bruschetta. I don't know what the deal is with bruschetta lately, I'm not even particularly fond of it, I was just curious what this would entail. This alone would have been enough to fill me up, but I still had an entree on the way. I had a bad case of eyes bigger than stomach syndrome, I guess. The guacamole was great and the toast was crispy. The shrimp was probably precooked, but at least the bread was crisp.

I asked for the spicy tomato penne extra spicy. As far as I could tell they just tossed in some more red pepper flakes. The tomato cream sauce had a mild curried flavor and the chicken was very tender. Despite my stomach's pleas I continued to eat and eat until I could no longer bear it. Then I finished my beer, paid my bill and went up to my room to pass out after the carb load.