Great weekend.
Jul. 30th, 2007 10:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
badseed1980Even though I've probably gained weight because of it, my weekend was awesome. I had a lovely anniversary celebration with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pierceheart on Saturday. We exchanged presents in the morning, then went out to have our old favourite breakfast of Santa Monica sandwiches (at Espresso Royale Cafe instead of Bagel Rising) before heading off to the winery. We took the tour and tasted many wines and beers. Most were excellent. I only tasted two things I didn't like (an apple-elderberry wine called Chrysleton which just tasted kind of odd, and a honey-apple liqueur called Barenfang, which was far too sweet on its own). We each bought half a dozen bottles of wine (OY!) to bring home. Then we got dressed in somewhat nicer clothes for dinner, and went to Mistral. OMG, the foodgasm. That place was simply wonderful. Expensive as all hell, but wonderful. Yum. And I have leftovers! Dinner tonight, methinks, put into a salad. :D There were some interesting discussions after dinner. Not all of them were easy things to talk about, but it was all GOOD, I feel, and good things have come of it.
Sunday was a bit hectic trying to get ready for my friend T's wedding, but we made it on time. I managed to find a quesadilla maker for her on Friday night that I think she will LOVE. Normally I frown on giving people one-use appliances that they didn't specifically ask for as wedding presents, but I know how T feels about quesadillas. :) The ceremony was a Gujarati-style Hindu ceremony, even though the boy she married is of Greek extraction, and the blending of the two families was interesting to see. She looked absolutely beautiful in the full bridal regalia, and it was great to see her and a couple other people from high school, even though somehow we got seated at a table across the room from all the other people I knew at the wedding! Oy. But the dinner was great (Indian food with Greek baklava for dessert, yum!) and we left after that to pick up my stuff and go back topierceheart's place to spend the night.
Ok, I should probably get back to work now...
pierceheart on Saturday. We exchanged presents in the morning, then went out to have our old favourite breakfast of Santa Monica sandwiches (at Espresso Royale Cafe instead of Bagel Rising) before heading off to the winery. We took the tour and tasted many wines and beers. Most were excellent. I only tasted two things I didn't like (an apple-elderberry wine called Chrysleton which just tasted kind of odd, and a honey-apple liqueur called Barenfang, which was far too sweet on its own). We each bought half a dozen bottles of wine (OY!) to bring home. Then we got dressed in somewhat nicer clothes for dinner, and went to Mistral. OMG, the foodgasm. That place was simply wonderful. Expensive as all hell, but wonderful. Yum. And I have leftovers! Dinner tonight, methinks, put into a salad. :D There were some interesting discussions after dinner. Not all of them were easy things to talk about, but it was all GOOD, I feel, and good things have come of it.Sunday was a bit hectic trying to get ready for my friend T's wedding, but we made it on time. I managed to find a quesadilla maker for her on Friday night that I think she will LOVE. Normally I frown on giving people one-use appliances that they didn't specifically ask for as wedding presents, but I know how T feels about quesadillas. :) The ceremony was a Gujarati-style Hindu ceremony, even though the boy she married is of Greek extraction, and the blending of the two families was interesting to see. She looked absolutely beautiful in the full bridal regalia, and it was great to see her and a couple other people from high school, even though somehow we got seated at a table across the room from all the other people I knew at the wedding! Oy. But the dinner was great (Indian food with Greek baklava for dessert, yum!) and we left after that to pick up my stuff and go back to
pierceheart's place to spend the night.Ok, I should probably get back to work now...
