Sunday January 31, 2010
Double Date
Last night Dave and I joined our friends to go on a double date. We went to Roy, which I had been to in the past for drinks, but had never had their food. I had one of their chicken pasta dishes, which was good.
After enjoying dinner and conversation at the restaurant, we headed back to enjoy some chocolate cake (which no, no one baked it, it was leftover from a party).
All in all a good evening—we tend to stay in for dinner a lot, so it was a nice change of pace to go out—with other people no less!
(1)Thursday January 28, 2010
Broadway in Santa Barbara
Last night Dave and I went to go see a Broadway show at the Granada—Avenue Q!! I love that we have access to a place that has performances of things like Broadway shows that is even within walking distance of us!
Anyway, I bought these tickets ages ago—as soon as I heard this show was coming to town, because I was dying to see it. Everything I had heard about it was that it was hilarious—and I mean, with dysfunctional singing muppets, how could you go wrong?! I got us pretty close seats because I wanted to be able to actually see the puppets.
The interesting thing about this showing is that there were quite a lot of older people in the audience—and by older I mean, like 70’s or something. I really don’t think these people had a clue as to what they were going to see—I am betting they just have season tickets and thought they were seeing a nice, respectable Broadway show. Instead, they saw puppets getting it on, swearing, drinking, and probably being generally shocking if you weren’t expecting it. What would you expect though from a musical that has songs like “It Sucks to Be Me”, “The Internet is for P*rn”, “If You Were Gay”, and “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist”?!
The show was pretty much constantly funny—with the songs, their actions, the TVs that would come down and show animated videos to aid in the storytelling, and the help of awesome supporting characters like the Bad Idea Bears!
If anything I’ve said above sounds even remotely appealing, you should TOTALLY go see this show! It was awesome!! It seems that tons of people I know also went to see the show while it was playing this week—I guess this is just one of those shows that prompted people to really get out and see something at the Granada!
Sunday January 24, 2010
Dave's Mom in Town
This weekend Dave’s mom and her boyfriend came up to visit us while they are still in California. They came up on Friday, and after work we all went to dinner at Palazzio, and then came back to our place for awhile and hung out.
On Saturday morning the two of them went for a bike ride in the morning and when they got back we headed to the Farmers Market to check things out and also to see if they had ingredients Dave needed for the dinner he was going to make.
After the market we walked around State Street a bit, doing some shop browsing, before joining the boyfriend’s sister and her husband for lunch at Natural Cafe. We then proceeded to the Urban Wine Trail and did a free tasting at Kalyra (thanks to my membership). Everyone also got some wine and merchandise since I get my member discount—Dave’s mom and her boyfriend even got Kalyra cycling jerseys, since they are all into that stuff.
After the winery, we headed back to our apartment where Dave started cooking the dinner—chicken tikka masala. After eating the delicious dinner, we hung out and talked for quite awhile, before agreeing to meet for breakfast in the morning.
For breakfast, we chose to eat at Pacific Crepes, which is of course an awesome place. I got the fruit breakfast crepe, which is always delicious. I love that place, and I think everyone was happy with their selections.
After breakfast, they took off back down south. All in all it turned out to be a good weekend—and we were lucky that the weather was so fantastic since it was pouring during the week and it even rained on their drive up. They were also lucky that they were able to have nice weather so that they could cycle in the mornings—something they hadn’t been able to do for a week or two because of all that rain. So, it turned out perfect!
Thursday January 21, 2010
STORM WATCH 2010!!!
So of course, the big news this week is all the rain that California is getting. We were initially supposed to get rain for 2 weeks straight, but now it appears that it is just until tomorrow. We definitely need the rain, since we haven’t gotten much in recent seasons. I just hope we don’t get TOO much at once, given all the potential for mudslides after the fires.
Who says SoCal doesn’t get weather though? So far this week we’ve had torrential downpours, hail, lightening that struck a lady’s car while she was driving, trees that fell on people’s cars, tornadoes (?!) that struck a block from where Dave used to live, and snow in the mountains. I guess the weather is REALLY trying to make up for the fact that it’s been 70 and sunny pretty much all winter long.
Saturday January 16, 2010
Dinner at a New Place
Last night Dave and I headed into the heart of downtown to join some people for dinner in their new apartment—so new that they had really only moved in that day, but they were anxious to be able to cook a dinner for friends in their new kitchen.
We drank some wine and had some lasagna, which was pretty tasty. When their neighbors (and also good friends of theirs) came home, they joined us, and we eventually started in on a game of Cranium. I believe that the hostess generally considers herself to be awesome at that game, but I do believe that I gave her a run for her money! My team ultimately lost, but that was mainly due to the fact that my partner was a bit lacking in the music categories.
It does, however, make me realize that I miss not having gone to pub quiz in ages!
