Buffalo Wild Wings

The following is a quasi-guest post. The photos are Bert's. Text by yours truly...

Last month Bert had a "bromantic" evening out with Thor and Tatonka...

Their dinner destination? The new Buffalo Wild Wings in the Chula Vista mall...

Watermelon Oreos & other wierd flavored snacks

A week or so ago, we were in Target in the Convoy area looking for some bandaids.

While Bert went off to the first aid section, I headed towards the snacks where I saw and eventually bought the Watermelon Oreo cookies...

Crispy's Donuts

A few days ago I thought I'd check out our local donut joint for blueberry items...

It's in the Ralph's shopping center next to Baskin Robbins, Starbucks, and a nail salon. Unfortunately, I had an allergic reaction to being out in the sun several days before so I needed to get some Benadryl at Ralph's. Since I was there early, I thought I would pop in here to see what they had...

VG Donuts & Bakery

Since we were up in the area, I thought we would grab a few bites of dessert at this donut shop I'd been hearing about...

It was on our way down from Oceanside and we are hardly ever up here so we thought we would check it out.

It's pretty easy to get to. VG Donuts is in a tiny corner strip mall with it's own parking lot (there is only one way in and out). Since we got there around 3:30 pm'ish, I wasn't sure what kind of donuts would be left. We would soon find out.

Refreshments and snacks of the maple kind

If you ever take a trip to Canada, or more specifically Montreal or Quebec, you will find tons of maple syrup products everywhere, from the grocery store, farmer's market to the airport. Here, at one of the sidestreets near the Marche de Bonsecours in Montreal, we saw the ubiquitous "Sirop d'erable" (maple syrup)...

Our attention wasn't really piqued until we got to the end of the vendor's table...

Guahan Grill

Everyday during my vacation, I planned something different for everyday. Whether it was with TC, or all of us, or with a friend, there was something  fun to see or do and a good place to eat pretty much every day. This day was no exception. We thought we'd make the trip up to Oceanside to try out a Chamorro place in this strip mall...

Guahan Grill is a bit out of the way for us, now that Yokozuna's (before they turned into Yokoz and sucked completely; they are now closed) and Islander Grill are now gone.

Besides Guahan Grill, the only other Guamanian place is Chamorro Grill on Mission Gorge Road (by the Kaiser Permanente Hospital near Zion).

Old Montreal during the day

It's back to the last bits of our Canada trip from last year...

That was one of the best vacations we've had, especially since we got to spend time with blogger friend, C and her family as we traversed their great nation via minivan!

Earlier that day, we'd enjoyed smoked meat sandwiches at Schwartz's Deli and just recently had some awesome desserts at juliette & chocolat. At this point in the day, tt was time for their daughter's nap so her husband reparked the car to a shadier spot while C and her daughter stayed behind to rest....

Ardi's Ice Cream, Cakes & More

[Updated - Closed as of 2014]

Yes, just a few steps up and aross the street was a new ice cream shop...

We noticed the signage a few months ago during the Lemon Festival but the store wasn't open just yet.

As we approached the door, bubbles from a bubble machine were floating in the air...

Chico's Bakery

A few blocks north of Sweet Sisters is yet another Latino owned bakery...

one that we hadn't been to yet...

"Jackpot" from Star Dust

As a consolation prize for having been closed this Saturday during our little food crawl...

(Notice the "CLOSED" sign? That happens a lot. Unless I just have crappy timing. This is an older photo by the way.)

Bert happened to stop by this morning during a work related errand that brought him through IB...

New Mac flavor at Sweet Sisters Bakery

Fresh from our little visit to Moreliana, we had a few other bakeries to hit up...

This next one would be in the heart of downtown Chula Vista on Third Avenue Village...