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Great weekend!
Oct. 21st, 2007 10:45 pmThursday night was dinner out with Bob & Tom (local friends who've been together for 11+ years), and then Friday night was an impromptu dinner out with our friend Steve at a VERY local restaurant - the Cliff House Grille. The restaurant's basically right next door to us; we walked there, had dinner, came back to our place for a little wine and Catherine Tate, and said good-night to Steve.
Saturday we got up and picked up Bob and Tom and headed off to New Hope for the day stopping along the way at the Flemington outlets!! WOOHOO! Polo Outlet - fantastic. We racked up there, and then got to Lambertville on the Delaware around 2:30 for coffee. We walked around town, and I shopped a little for beading supplies (normal thing for me to do there), and went to a great couple of shoppes there before heading to New Hope for more shopping (just browsing, basically) and then dinner at the Raven.
The Raven is a nice restaurant, bar, pool (with pool bar), and B&B just on the outskirts of New Hope that caters to the gay community. They host the Santa Saturday Bear event the Saturday following Thanksgiving that I've been "attending" every year except once since about 2001. It's a really fun time, and lots of people go. It used to be hosted by the Cartwheel that "burned down" about 3 years ago. We had a really good dinner (not cheap!), and headed to the bar where we ran into 10 friends of mine that I hadn't seen in a couple of years (we don't get to that area of NJ/PA very often and those friends don't make it up here much either). That was really great because two of our friends up here met some of our friends down there and there were connections made - which I love to do.
Today was a little quieter and fun, too: We took the ferry into Manhattan for dinner and a play. We ate at Esca, one of Mario Batali's restaurants in Manhattan. Wonderful meal (I had sardine and anchovy appetizers - better than you'd imagine - not canned, but cooked or oil cured and not salty at all) with pheasant entree over chestnut spaetzle. On the side we had turnips, broccoli, and beet greens with olives and Italian bread. No wine today, but the espresso after was phenomenal. Then we took off for a leisurely walk to the theater to see C.S. Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters" written into a play (by the star of the show) at a midtown Episcopal Church (St. Clement's). It was fantastic!!
I had tried for YEARS to read "The Screwtape Letters", starting it, never finishing it, starting it again with fervor, and not finishing it for one reason or another. This time, I figured, at least I'll finally get through it by seeing it for 90 minutes on stage. And we were RIGHT THERE - almost center-stage two rows back, and could see the actor quite literally spitting his lines into the front row audience. After that we discovered a side street vintner selling a whole rack of beautiful wines for 15% off due to cosmetic problems with the labels - either a little dirty or torn off in shipping, but still fully bottled. So exciting to find a bargain on something we love and we'll enjoy together.
All in all, another winning, superb weekend, and it felt like it was a week of a weekend. But, oddly, I'm not ready to go back to work tomorrow...
Saturday we got up and picked up Bob and Tom and headed off to New Hope for the day stopping along the way at the Flemington outlets!! WOOHOO! Polo Outlet - fantastic. We racked up there, and then got to Lambertville on the Delaware around 2:30 for coffee. We walked around town, and I shopped a little for beading supplies (normal thing for me to do there), and went to a great couple of shoppes there before heading to New Hope for more shopping (just browsing, basically) and then dinner at the Raven.
The Raven is a nice restaurant, bar, pool (with pool bar), and B&B just on the outskirts of New Hope that caters to the gay community. They host the Santa Saturday Bear event the Saturday following Thanksgiving that I've been "attending" every year except once since about 2001. It's a really fun time, and lots of people go. It used to be hosted by the Cartwheel that "burned down" about 3 years ago. We had a really good dinner (not cheap!), and headed to the bar where we ran into 10 friends of mine that I hadn't seen in a couple of years (we don't get to that area of NJ/PA very often and those friends don't make it up here much either). That was really great because two of our friends up here met some of our friends down there and there were connections made - which I love to do.
Today was a little quieter and fun, too: We took the ferry into Manhattan for dinner and a play. We ate at Esca, one of Mario Batali's restaurants in Manhattan. Wonderful meal (I had sardine and anchovy appetizers - better than you'd imagine - not canned, but cooked or oil cured and not salty at all) with pheasant entree over chestnut spaetzle. On the side we had turnips, broccoli, and beet greens with olives and Italian bread. No wine today, but the espresso after was phenomenal. Then we took off for a leisurely walk to the theater to see C.S. Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters" written into a play (by the star of the show) at a midtown Episcopal Church (St. Clement's). It was fantastic!!
I had tried for YEARS to read "The Screwtape Letters", starting it, never finishing it, starting it again with fervor, and not finishing it for one reason or another. This time, I figured, at least I'll finally get through it by seeing it for 90 minutes on stage. And we were RIGHT THERE - almost center-stage two rows back, and could see the actor quite literally spitting his lines into the front row audience. After that we discovered a side street vintner selling a whole rack of beautiful wines for 15% off due to cosmetic problems with the labels - either a little dirty or torn off in shipping, but still fully bottled. So exciting to find a bargain on something we love and we'll enjoy together.
All in all, another winning, superb weekend, and it felt like it was a week of a weekend. But, oddly, I'm not ready to go back to work tomorrow...
