Family photo Oct 2010

Family photo Oct 2010

Monday, July 23, 2012

East Side

Yesterday I got to drive out to the East Side and hang out with Ashley and Sunil :)  Gaetan was gracious enough to watch the kiddos solo while I went and had dinner with them and hung out.  :)  Even though I've been there before I got lost this time... ugh.  Stupid construction.  But, all is well and I finally made it.

We went to this Ethiopian restaurant called Addis Abba and it was DELICIOUS.  I've gone to one in GR before and this was very similar.  My favorite was the cabbage one.  They had some spicy ones that were really good but they had some heat... I'm sissy. But the flavor was sooo good.  We had some meat too that was really good as well.  It was a nice meal because it's communal (you use the bread they give you and use that as utensils instead of typical knife and fork) and you just dig in!  It's nice because you have a sampling and you can talk with your company.  Overall, great experience.  And I feel like if you have a lot of time to spend you could just eat and eat and eat.  It was kinda like sushi where if you stayed long enough you'd digest it quickly I bet that you could be there all day long!  We joked that the bread kinda looked like a sham wow, and we even rolled it up, twisted it (like we were drying it) and rung it back out and it kept its integrity pretty well :)  haha.

Our yummy food!  We ended up rotating so the red (more spicy) stuff was towards them.  They brought yummy meat to put in the middle too, but I was so anxious to dig in!
After the delicious meal we went and hung out with a few other friends at their place.  Since I hadn't seen Tally and Pipi's place since they moved out there it was nice to see how they've been settling in.  We just hung out and talked about whatever... zombie apocalypse really.  Interesting stuff...

It was getting pretty late and Ratty had to wake up at an unreasonably early time (to get her miles in before her big day of filming) so she went to bed pretty soon after we got back to their house, but Gato and I stayed up, had some delicious wine and were inappropriate together.  Ahh... just like the good ole days ;)  Well, that sounds bad... we had a good time just hanging out, laughing... some serious, some not.  I miss it.  Unfortunately I do live 2 hours away so around 1:30 I decided it was time to get my bunda home.  So, I made the trek home safely and was very happy to get into bed.

Its still hard not having them around the corner (literally) but it does make the visits all the more better.  We will see what the next few years hold for us, location wise, but I know where ever we end up we will be by friends.  :)

JVG

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