June 2010

Two Dinners

Nara's "One Month" Dinner

After a month of life, you start planning a banquet to celibrate the birth of your child. Our banquet dates turns out to be a little later than one month - we wanted and "auspicous date" as well as a day my parents would be in town. We booked a table at one of the local Chinese food restaurants and away we went!

Nara was of course the star of the show! Dinner is always a tricky time to schedual things because Nara feeds more in the evening and can sometimes go through periods of crankyness/playfullness/tiredness in rapid order. We were lucky tonight though - she had a feed just before we got out the door
and behaved well (slept) for much of the evening.

Dynasty Seafood Restaurant always does a good job and this time was no exception. We preordered when we made our reservation and all of our food was served promptly. Even though it was a Wednesday night, the place was packed. It was a bad day for Chinese ducks - almost every table ordered one.

After that it was a "photo of everyone with every one else in various combinations". Nara was the only constant.

A good evening!

Eric and Andrea's Birthday

Another trip around the sun! Andrea and Eric's birthdays are very close together so they decided to "co-celibrate" by having a dinner at West. Normally West isn't the kind of place you get into with a party of 10 on a Friday night, but amazingly Andrea made it work.

The food and service were top quality as expected. Eric and Mark were really impressed with the cocktails. The plating was top notch and the swarm of servers to ensure simultanous delivery and clearing was impressive.