So my New Year quest to visit with friends has gone well so far. This past week the hub, Moses and I were invited to a dinner party at my friend's brand new house in Burbank. I love looking at new houses. All I want to do is decorate them with all my ideas from catalogues! My house is getting a bit too full....well according to my husband. I think I can I can always find room for one more cute thing or rearrange! hehehe don't tell him! It was nice to visit with my girlfriend, who was very excited to be getting a baby Labrador Retriever in two weeks (below is a picture of her baby). As you can imagine our conversation focused a lot on dogs and what to expect. She is getting him from a farm that raises Labs in North Carolina. 
The "farmers" will be driving the pup up to California in two weeks (apparently they come to Cali all the time so this isn't an issue). And then she is going to be busy!! Mo gave her a taste of what she is in for. Well, okay, not really true, cuz he is, after all, such an angel dog. But we told her to get herself a good broom because she is going to be sweeping up hair off her new hardwood floors everyday. I found it funny that all my studio girlfriends have yellow Labradors. It's a pretty cool quinky-dink. I wonder what it means?? I will have to have a yellow lab party soon.
Friday night we got together with another pal who we haven't seen in ages and went back to this yummy French place in our neighborhood. Those French guys make a pretty good ice tea, steak and frites, chicken and my favorite, duck!! I can still taste the yumminess. My friend is doing pretty well. After talking about trips we would like to take in 2010 we discovered that we both want to go to some of the same places. Looks like I found my travel buddy in case my hubby has to work.
Last night the hub and I got all dolled up for a night out on the town in the hills of Beverly aka Beverly Hills. My girlfriend had her birthday party at Gonpachi on La Cienaga a.k.a. fancy restaurant row. We went to a Japanese restaurant which was a lot larger than I thought a Japanese restaurant would be! Someone mentioned that they filmed KILL BILL there. And after looking at it more closely it looked very familar. There were 40 of us and we were sat at the longest table I have ever seen at a restaurant. I was amazed they could put that many tables together and that they had the room to do it. The atmosphere of the restaurant was really cool. I will have to go back again so I can roam the place. The food was pretty good. The hub ordered home made soba curry noodles and some BBQ and I ordered some sushi and popcorn shrimp. Do you know what I did? I friggin' ordered some toro. I know it doesn't sound bad. But I didn't see they were listing it as market price. So when we got the bill those two little nuggets of sushi cost $24 bucks!!! Well, I sure learned my lesson. I can't believe I accidentally ordered friggin' expensive sushi, especially when I was paying. Oh well, the food was good. They had so many interesting things on that menu. I didn't have enough time to read all about them. So a return trip is definitely in order.
Tonight we are catching up with Kristi who is town from Seattle. I find it hilarious that last week we had dinner with her husband who was in town. So I am actually going to see Krugs two weeks in a row! It really is a new year! hehehe
Monday my hub has to work but I am going to go catch up with a really old friend, you may remember him? His name is Burke Williams. I so can't wait to see him! hehehe
The "farmers" will be driving the pup up to California in two weeks (apparently they come to Cali all the time so this isn't an issue). And then she is going to be busy!! Mo gave her a taste of what she is in for. Well, okay, not really true, cuz he is, after all, such an angel dog. But we told her to get herself a good broom because she is going to be sweeping up hair off her new hardwood floors everyday. I found it funny that all my studio girlfriends have yellow Labradors. It's a pretty cool quinky-dink. I wonder what it means?? I will have to have a yellow lab party soon.Friday night we got together with another pal who we haven't seen in ages and went back to this yummy French place in our neighborhood. Those French guys make a pretty good ice tea, steak and frites, chicken and my favorite, duck!! I can still taste the yumminess. My friend is doing pretty well. After talking about trips we would like to take in 2010 we discovered that we both want to go to some of the same places. Looks like I found my travel buddy in case my hubby has to work.
Last night the hub and I got all dolled up for a night out on the town in the hills of Beverly aka Beverly Hills. My girlfriend had her birthday party at Gonpachi on La Cienaga a.k.a. fancy restaurant row. We went to a Japanese restaurant which was a lot larger than I thought a Japanese restaurant would be! Someone mentioned that they filmed KILL BILL there. And after looking at it more closely it looked very familar. There were 40 of us and we were sat at the longest table I have ever seen at a restaurant. I was amazed they could put that many tables together and that they had the room to do it. The atmosphere of the restaurant was really cool. I will have to go back again so I can roam the place. The food was pretty good. The hub ordered home made soba curry noodles and some BBQ and I ordered some sushi and popcorn shrimp. Do you know what I did? I friggin' ordered some toro. I know it doesn't sound bad. But I didn't see they were listing it as market price. So when we got the bill those two little nuggets of sushi cost $24 bucks!!! Well, I sure learned my lesson. I can't believe I accidentally ordered friggin' expensive sushi, especially when I was paying. Oh well, the food was good. They had so many interesting things on that menu. I didn't have enough time to read all about them. So a return trip is definitely in order.
Tonight we are catching up with Kristi who is town from Seattle. I find it hilarious that last week we had dinner with her husband who was in town. So I am actually going to see Krugs two weeks in a row! It really is a new year! hehehe
Monday my hub has to work but I am going to go catch up with a really old friend, you may remember him? His name is Burke Williams. I so can't wait to see him! hehehe
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