This is the only time I am taking my kid to a fancy restaurant ;-) I finally got to take advantage of my bonus for getting licensed (last year). The bonus was $500 toward (originally travel) a fancy meal. I spent all but a few dollars of it at Avenues last night with John. We had the 15 course menu with a nice Neyers Zin. Yes, baby had some wine last night. But I will only stray for the best...and isn't it a sin to have a fine meal without wine?
I wish I could run down the list of what I had, but it was beyond my culinary ken. I did sacrifice some meat for the baby. I had my meats cooked medium. Oh, the looked so sad compared to John's bright red juicy pieces of lamb. Most of the 15 courses were phenomenal in my opinion. I could have gone without the Japanese grainy thing with Manchego milk. One wonders what Manchego milk is, well, it's something you can live your life not knowing. But I was so full, I couldn't even make it through the final, chocolate dish. I KNOW! I just couldn't do it...even for chocolate.
Another amusing factoid about eating fancy while pregnant is that you have to pee a lot. AND, they don't let you seat yourself. Every time I came out of the restroom someone from the restaurant would jump in front of me and walk me to my seat. I didn't like having others know my lack of bladder control. I was tempted to just run in front of them and seat myself. Maybe they'd get the hint...
I was looking for the menu online and the best I could find was an outdated version and this (http://curtisduffy.blogspot.com/2008_08_01_archive.html) the chef's blog. It shows some images of a few of the dishes, so you get an idea.
This experience was well worth it. I am happy that I had it, but it is not something I think I will ever need to do again. Especially when it is on my dime ;-)
Thursday night I spent with the ladies from GBS. Through facebook, I was able to reconnect with some fabulous females from my past...and Renata who is as pregnant as I am. Baby and I had Korean BBQ for the first time and it was yummy. I think my baby needs to be a chef with all of this cuisine he/she is experiencing vicariously. Also, if I ever get the urge for fine dining again, I can just have jr make it. Anyway, this blog is about being pregnant, not food.... right? So, we caught up on the latest gossip and I learned that I have so much to learn about babies and baby products. There is this nesting phase I am supposed to go through where the baby room should be done by now, but John and I just started talking about where we'd put the crib in our office/second bedroom. I just started being able to go into babies r us without feeling totally out of my element. I hope there's a huge learning curve for this stuff.
Anyway T minus 24 days to THE ultrasound....
2 comments:
i had such a great time reconnection. and, just to let you know, i'm all down for waiting til the last minute to start "nesting" - i am right there with you on being super scared of babies 'r us!! maybe after your babymoon, we can venture out together and kidnap marla to show us the way??? (p.s. our babymoon is oct. 23 to montreal. see, ONCE AGAIN, only a few days off from one another. WEIRD!!!)
Well, to make matters freakier, we were going to go to Quebec..but the tix were too much money for a long weekend for us.
Let's definitely get together after babymoon!!!
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