back to the grind

thus ends the 2008 oscar weekend extravaganza. sigh. :)

saturday:
abby and brian left around 10:30 or so. ian and i hung out and did some last-minute stuff, and then kim showed up around noon. after feeding ian again, we left for state street. due to my stupidity, we didn't get to have our sushi for lunch...the place we were going to was somewhere else, and the other place was closed due to exhaust fan issues. :) so, we were both starving, so ended up at chautara, a nepalese/indian/tibetan place. i had samosas and kim had masala dosa, which was a gigantic burrito-looking thing. i also had chiya, a spiced tea with milk. everything was good, and ian slept the whole time. this was the only meal where he behaved himself. :) so then we moved the truck and went to fromagination on the capitol square. this was kind of a waste of time because it was really crowded and non-stroller-friendly. we also went to capitol kids while kim went to use the bathroom in the capitol, which was unfortunately closed. :) then we went to gail ambrosius chocolatier, which was AWESOME. we got a box of 6 chocolates: caramel with grey sea salt, bourbon, trois poivre (three pepper), curry, jasmine tea, and cinnamon-cayenne. all were very good, except i wasn't a huge fan of the curry one. after the chocolate place, we went back to state street for supper at kabul, an afghan restaurant. the food was good, but ian had had enough of being out, so we had to cut dinner kind of short and head home. we ate the rest of our food later...i had tunisian spinach stew, and kim had curried chicken. after ian went to bed, we watched vh1's "100 greatest songs of the 90's" and reminisced. :)

sunday:
woke up bright and early with ian. we headed for church around 9 or so, and practiced our duets. the service was VERY long, so we didn't get out of there till after 11:30 because i had to feed ian before we left. we headed back to state street and finally had our sushi at takara. ian had some problems again, so it wasn't the leisurely sushi lunch that we wanted, but whatever. i had a salmon roll and a negi hamachi (green onion and yellowtail) with green tea, and kim had a salmon roll and a tuna roll with green tea. it was very good. then we walked around the corner to paciugo gelato, and got gelato to go. i had tiramisu and fondente (extra dark chocolate), and kim just had the fondente. excellent stuff. we then planned to go to the laotian place to pick up our dinner and go home for the day, but when we got there, they weren't open until 5, and this was about 2. so, we stopped and just got chinese and took it home. i got imperial chicken with broccoli, and kim had hunan tofu, and we split an appetizer platter o' fried things: eggroll, crab rangoon, potstickers, and the like. the food was okay, just maybe not as flavorful as it could have been. the oscars were very enjoyable, and i won our pool. :) well, i won the one just between kim and me, and brian won the online one that we did. then we went to bed.

monday:
again, bright and early with ian. we had a leisurely morning, and then left around 9 or so to go to breakfast at marigold kitchen. i had a breakfast sandwich on ciabatta bread with bacon, cream cheese-ish sauce, tomato, a fried egg, and green onions with a decaf vanilla latte. it was excellent, but messy. kim had duck confit hash (!) with toast and coffee. she said it was good. after that we drove back to the chocolate place to get more. :) kim wanted some for matt, and i wanted more for brian and myself. then we parted ways, and oscar weekend was over for another year.

overall an enjoyable weekend, but certainly more stressful than usual with the inclusion of ian in the mix.