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April 20, 2008
Adam's 30th birthday basheroo
Lots of people are excited about milestone birthdays--sometimes not so much because of the age but the celebration it entails. Adam's been looking forward to his 30th birthday party for at least a year. The preparations kicked off last spring when Adam and I went to San Francisco and we came across this dollar store in Japantown. Some people look forward to receiving presents for their birthday--Adam looks forward to giving them and creating goodie bags was his birthday labor of love. He bought so much at the dollar store he had to ship the goodies back home. Over the next year, he would buy things here and there for the goodie bags. The celebrations kicked off at my sister's place last weekend and continued on through the week with a Yankees-Sox game and various dinners. After trying to get Adam to go for ages, we finally went to Fette Sau on Friday for some tasty barbecue meat followed by Belgian beers at Williamsburg beer hall Radegast. But last night was the big night at last and it was a night to remember. Adam singing Britney Spears, our neighbors doing an acoustic song for us, and Adam's friends, family, and colleagues all in one room--I told Adam it was like his own wedding. Anyhow, some photos below:
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April 13, 2008
Weekend wrap-up
I'd been wanting to go to Ippudo for a while and Adam and I finally made the trek down there on Friday. Not unexpectedly, there were a lot of people waiting for tables and we ended up having to wait about 45 minutes before we were seated. The interior is nice--surprisingly spacious for an East Village restaurant although the nu metal type music didn't really seem to fit the environment. Unfortunately, this represented another NYC ramen disappointment to me--the broth was good but I didn't like the thin noodles and there was only one piece of very fatty pork in my ramen. Definitely not worth a long wait and I thought as we left that the wait for Ippudo slightly echoed the wait for Giordano's in Chicago.
I had wanted to go to the Murakami exhibit when we were in L.A. but didn't get the opportunity to go so I was excited when I found out it was coming to the Brooklyn Museum. We had plans to go to my sister's last night and since she doesn't live too far from the museum, I decided to go. Also a bit of a disappointment--I guess Murakami is one of those artists around which there is so much buzz that I got caught up in the excitement but, actually, I realized I'm not so much a fan of his work. Afterwards, it was a pre-birthday basheroo get-together for Adam (who turns 30 next weekend) at my sister's. We ate tasty Chinese food and I drank way too much wine and sake from which I did not recover until 4 this afternoon (not fun). I did manage, however, to walk over to our local supermarket after I recovered and make chicken biryani I believe for the first time which didn't turn out so badly.
Anyhow, a photo from last night:
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April 07, 2008
Chicago
Adam had a conference to go to in Chicago and since I had never been and Adam had only been in passing we went there a few days early to explore the city. The city is nice--lots of charming neighborhoods and impressive skyscrapers. We checked out museums, made several attempts to go bird-watching (unfortunately, I think it's still a bit too cold for the plethora of birds needed for a novice birder like me to spot them), did some shopping, made one very disappointing attempt to eat deep dish pizza (Giordano's is definitely not a pizza place worth the long wait for), and ate some crazy wasabi dumplings. Anyhow, some photos below:
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