Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Week 3, Day 13...2 Days Left!

I can't believe that Senior Project is almost over!  Becca and I still have a few things to do, but we have it all under control! Today, Becca and I woke up and started work at 9:00.  Becca finished all the pasting of menus and cards into our binder, while I had a lot of little things to do.  First, I called all of the restaurants that I had discovered the other night didn't have hours listed on their websites.  I wrote down all of their times, and sent them to Becca so she could include them at the end of her reviews.  Becca and I talked about how we wanted to our reviews to look with information at the bottom of them.  We both decided on having bullets under the review on the left hand side of it.  Our first bullet will state the days and hours for which the restaurant is open.  The second bullet will state "Becca's Favorite Dish" and our third bullet will state "Erin's Favorite Dish".  We also decided to state in a bullet if the restaurant has lodging or not, which we found a few of them do.  After writing up all of these bullets for each of my reviews, I starting searching online for all of the contact information I needed for a few of the restaurants that didn't have business cards.  This took quite a while, considering some of the restaurants didn't have websites.  I gathered all of this information and typed it into a Word document.  I plan to use a label maker tomorrow to create "business cards" for the restaurants that don't have their own.  For the rest of the morning, I also worked on my reviews and arranging them in one Word document.  My reviews, as well as Becca's, need to all be in one document for our Clickbook software (I learned how to use it this afternoon) that we will use to arrange our condensed book tomorrow!  I finished work with Becca at 1:00, when I left her house.  Tonight, Becca came over at 7:00 and we departed for The Old Courthouse in Newport. Since we have removed La Meridiana from our list, we knew that this week we had to choose a new restaurant.  We were so glad that tonight's dinner was perfect!  It is a great replacement and new recommendation in our book.  We took pictures and Becca and I spoke with the owner.  She was very pleased we were adding her restaurant into our book and gave us her card, a menu, a magnet, and a recent article published in New Hampshire Magazine about The Old Courthouse.  Becca and I both loved our dishes and had a great time.  We left and returned back to my house at 9:30. Tonight, for a half hour,  I worked on and printed out half of my reviews.  Tomorrow, Becca and I look forward to finishing our binder and starting Clickbooks!       

1 comment:

WilsonL said...

I'm excited to see your finished project! Now, when are you and becca going to take me to one of these fine restaurants?