IT'S A DONE DEAL!!!!

Aryn and Bradley picked me up as planned and we were off.  We went to an awesome little pho place.  The pho was delicious!!! and huuuugggggeeee!!!  I should have taken a picture.  Most of it I brought home and ate it for supper!

The next day was her birthday!!!  So we went out to Cactus Club and had a lovely lunch.  Then later we went to the Italian place down the end of fourth for the exciting Chef's dinner.  I was so looking forward to it.

Now a chef's dinner, which understandably is very expensive, is a series of dishes that they simply feed you.  You don't know what is coming.  The dishes are designed and cooked by the chef, special dishes not available to the general public.

That was not what happened.  We were sat in the cute tiny place and the wait staff were amazing.  All in all we were served seven dishes, dishes that were so tiny it was kind of shocking.  I am pretty sure that the meal was actually for two and they just stretched it to serve three.  Plus, and here is the real stickler, every single dish was straight off the menu!!!  We could have gone in there and each ordered a couple of family style dishes off the menu for five times the amount of food...for half the money!

For example:  the tortellini....they were delicious but teeny weeny tiny.  We each got a nice big bowl with six of those teeny tiny torts in the bottom of the bowl. Six or seven.  I will put a pic below.  Ridiculous. If we had ordered our meal and ordered tortellini we would have received a nice big bowl full to dish up from and had thirty or more each.

There were two dishes....one was two individual tiny soufflés and the other two tiny pana cotta.  Two.  There are three of us.  Awkward and not enough.

We left there hungry, feeling duped and disrespected.  For five hundred plus it left us angry and pissed off.  I left a pretty harsh google review.  I will put a couple pics at the bottom.

Yesterday morning April came by and picked us up and we went to a bougie wedding dress store she had made an appointment at....just to look.  It was so special having Aryn with us this time!  

She tried on a few dresses, all beautiful, and then......BOOM!!!!!  She came out in the most stunning dress of all!!!  We three were in tears!!!  There was no doubt or question it was THE dress.  OMG!!!  It is beautiful!  She is keeping it under wraps until the wedding day...no pics going out about that one!!!  What an amazing wonderful experience that was for the three of us.  We went out for lunch after just to decompress and recover!!!!

The rest of the day was spent sleeping, snacking and tv watching and convos.  Today Aryn has tax work to do so I shall be lappying and prolly watching tv and sitting on their beautiful deck in the sun sipping something yummy.  Can't ask for more than that!!!

Thats it for now peeps.  I hope you have as much fun as I am having!!!  TTYL

'Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.' Benjamin Franklin. my mother's mantra

YOU HAVE TO TRY AT LEAST ONE GOOFY DRESS!!!

AT LEAST THEY BROUGHT THREE COOKIES

SEVEN.  COUNT 'EM. SEVEN TINY TORTELLINI

HALF A SOUFFLE..THERE IS THE SUM TOTAL OF THE VEG WE GOT. ACTUALLY AT THE END WE GOT TWO ASPARAGUS EACH

WE HAD TO ASK FOR MORE BREAD...THEY REFILLED ONCE

ANTIPASTI...THREE BREAD STICKS, TINY PORTION OF BARRATTA WITH QUICKLES UNDERNEATH, SIX
 PIECES OF DELI MEATS, TUNA ON A CRACKER ONLY TWO, OLIVES.
THE MAIN DISH WAS TINY PIECES OF BEEF, POTATO PUREE AND TWO PIECES OF ASPARAGUS EACH.  MEANWHILE WE WATCHED THEM AT THE COUNTER PREP A BEAUTIFUL WHOLE BRANZINO FOR A TABLE OF TWO.  THE FOOD GOING TO THE TABLES OF DINERS WAS AMAZING.