Welcome Back To The Wynn

March Madness is in the air, which means my favorite annual trip has finally arrived. We left early this year, since the wives required their spouses to be home for Easter Sunday. We left shortly after lunch on Tuesday and checked into the Wynn that evening. We are here for just one night, then it's off to the Venetian. This is a smaller version of the suite we normally get here.

View from the bed:



We had a quiet dinner for 3 at Wing Lei inside the Wynn. It's a mix of Cantonese, Shanghai, and Szechwan cooking styles with a French influence.

Gorgeous place setting:



Our waiter asked Executive Chef Richard Chen if he would allow me to order his signature meal by myself, since he normally only does it for two. He agreed.



Chilled lobster somen salad with a soy garlic reduction - phenomenal



Shrimp mousee dumpling with Chinese pea leaves



Pan-seared diver scallop wrapped in seaweed



Wok-fried X.O. beef tenderloin with mixed vegetables - the beef was perfect.



Vegetable chow mein



The chef's dessert ended up being a hazelnut mousse cake with a scoop of hazelnut ice cream. Those are candied hazelnuts resting on top. This was incredible.



I sampled Joey's dessert: a chocolate covered pastry and scoop of vanilla. Very good. Scott had some to die for ginger ice cream. (not shown)


The trip's off to a good start. Stay tuned for more photos... likely of food.

Sara Bareilles

I went to the Sara Bareilles concert the other night at Velour in Provo. Sara's guitar player, Javier, opened the show with some ok love songs. Not really my thing.


But Sara's set was excellent. The show was completely sold out and packed to the rafters with people. Provo is the perfect place for a musician as squeaky clean as Bareilles, even if she did drop a few swears on the crowd.




Isn't she adorable.

Jump On It

Our department did a team-building activity at Jump On It a few weeks ago. Lots and lots of trampolines.

Taylor took this group photos, so he's missing from the picture: (left to right)

Chris, Stephanie, Same, Callie, Nicole, Me, Carol, Erin, and Marcole