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May 26, 2005
I do miss living downtown...
As I type it's 10:53 and I'm sitting on the 10:55 ferry heading home. What started out as a plan for a small group of colleagues to head to Ipanema (the Brazilian BBQ on 1st and University in Seattle, I've mentioned several times before) morphed into a group of 13 people descending on the place at 7pm.
Tonight they almost completely redeemed themselves from the horrible experience we had the first time we took a large group - the service was exactly as it should have been, and the quality was excellent, as always.
As I was finishing dinner someone mentioned desert and I suggested we head over to Tango for an ElDiablo - a magnificent cube of dark, rich, spicy chocolate served on a bed of caramel and fresh-made marshmallow. I guess my description convinced folks, 'cause 9 of the 13 ended up making their way to Capitol Hill where the camaraderie and carousing continued. (Like that alliteration?)
I left in time to walk the roughly 10 blocks back to the ferry in the dissipating heat (it hit 90 today - first hot day I've experienced up here - and it's still around 80 at 11pm), and got there in time to buy a ticket book and walk on.
Nights like this make me acutely aware of the tradeoff we made living on the island as opposed to downtown. I'll get home and to bed around midnight and tomorrow it's up at 6 (plus or minus 15 minutes of denial) to catch the boat back to work.
Posted by dberger at May 26, 2005 10:53 PM
Comments
You had meat on swords and evil chocolate cubes.... without me...notice how polite I am being? :)
Posted by: Nise at June 1, 2005 3:44 PM