Wednesday

Slept in. Got up made made tea and prepared grapefruit for breakfast. Went back to bed with Spouse for a bit :) Played with my new editor which is now a toy for both of us since Spouse is going to rewire it to make it safer (it's just a lamp). Went out to lunch at Marliave and had roasted beet and goat cheese salad with a nicely citrus flavoured dressing, ravioli with roasted tomatoes and panna cotta with a rhubarb sauce. Spouse had the mixed greens salad, pan-roasted chicken with risotto and bread pudding. We had an insteresting view of a cobbler's shop and watched people getting their shoes shined. Spouse decided he had to get his boots shined up so we went there after lunch. Then it was off to see Watchmen and eat Twizzlers!

My niece was born early this morning!

I still have no details other than they had to do a c-section (which was how Liz, the mother, was born as well) and mother and baby are doing fine. I still don't even know her name! As soon as Liz is p for phone calls, she's going to let us know herself, so I'm waiting for mom and A to get the news.

Breakfast was a grapefruit half and tea. Lunch will be at Lock Ober at 2:00. They've reopened for lunch for restaurant week so we get to try them out for only $20pp! And they have a huge menu for restaurant week, which not everyone does.

HUGE meal! We think we were getting better attention from the waiter because Spouse had his lovely suit on (plus we're always polite to waitstaff.) Spouse had fresh spring pea ravioli in potato soup, Statler chicken with asparagus and Bailey's and hot butterscotch sundae. I had field greens with crisp goat cheese, Locke-Ober fish and chips (very crispy fish and average fries with amazing malt vinegar beurre blanc) and cheese cake. Oh so decadent! I want to go back there again!

V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N!

I was officially on vacation at 12:45 this afternoon! Hooray! Plus I just found out that my stepsister is in labor. New baby!

The weekend was rather nice. Spouse and I went out to dinner Saturday where I didn't finish anything of my fish, potato or squash. Sunday we had folks over for a roast dinner or lamb (or seitan), roast potato, parsnip and carrot, peas, broccoli and gravy. Dessert was a steamed pudding with custard. It was YUM!

Today I just had tea and bread and butter for breakfast (still full from last night) and then went off to a morning conference. By lunch it was vacation time, so I had a martini and my first Restaurant Week meal of parsnip soup (yum!) and mushroom risotto which, sadly, included white truffle oil so smelled like decaying feet. Hopefully I'll have better luck with the next Restaurant Week meal, whatever that may be.

Dinner was homemade vegetable soup and beer.