For our wedding, my brother, his partner, and their daughter gave Amy and me a gift certificate to the fabulous, fancy French restaurant L’Espalier in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood. Last Saturday, the night before our first anniversary, we put that gift certificate to good use and treated ourselves to one of the best meals either of us has ever had.
We both chose the Degustation menu paired with 4 wines selected to match our entrees. Because of the flexibility of the menu, we got to have 8 different items (4 courses each, with a swap halfway through the meal.)
The entire experience was divine, as evidenced by the food hangovers we both had the next day. There are photos of each item we ate in the slideshow below. YUM.
Amy and I also need to figure out what we’re doing for our summer vacation this year. That starts on Friday and lasts for 10 days. Not that we’re behind on planning or anything… We’re thinking along the lines of:
a couple of days on the Cape
a few days in New Hampshire
staying up in Maine for a few more days after the lobster bake
or something else like that….
We’re definitely going to do some geocaching, the dogs will be with us, and I’m going to unplug from teh Internets. I so cannot wait! Hopefully tonight I’ll get to the top three items in this note - if I can only get to one, which would you prefer to read about?
I’ve been swapping my moo cards lately. I’ve gotten some really gorgeous ones, but so far my favorite is the one from American Libraries, the ALA magazine. They were giving them away at the conference in DC last month. I admit I picked up a couple… How silly of them, yet how clever all at the same time!
Others I’ve received are here (third from right in bottom row), here (bottom right), and here (#3 and #6). I’m waiting on a few others from Australia and the UK to show up.
Such a lovely, easy thing to swap with folks - I just LOOOOOVE the moo cards! Let me know if you have moo cards you’d like to swap. Check out my set over at Flickr and comment there if you want to trade.
Did you know that there are a ton of opportunities for women in the Boston area to play hockey? Here’s a list of the leagues - and one team - I can find:
