Thursday night happy hour at The Daily Refresher with a dozen friends from book club:
{Shawnda and I each had a Velveteen – American harvest, pear nectar, elderflower, cardamom syrup, and lemon} As a side note, dim gastro-lounge lighting makes for great atmosphere, but not so great pictures.
Saturday night we attended the opening night festivities of John Cariani’s new play Last Gas at Geva, including the private prologue, champagne toast, afterglow reception, and – of course – the show, with Becca, Meg, Shawnda, and Chris. The show was magical and we had a great time. I would highly recommend everyone go see it! Clearly, I did not take any photos to share, but Geva’s excellent photographer who shoots all our pro pics did, and you can view the gallery here, if you’re interested.
Annnnnd, on Sunday, Cider learned how to escape from her tank. Ted caught her crawling all the way up the heater that hangs from the top of her tank, emerging from the waterfall in front of the filter, lifting the filter lid, and peeling aside the thick layer of black gaff tape we’d put over the tiny little opening she squeezed through (to prevent her from escaping, obviously). She crawled up ON TOP of the tank, checked out the world for a minute, then – on her own – crawled back into her tank the same way she got out, and swam back down the bottom. This is a FISH we’re talking about. Unbelievable. Clearly, we have a whole new set of problems on our hands. Caught red handed (or orange clawed). Ted snapped this pic quickly before putting the phone down to be on stand by in case she fell off the top of the tank.
She’s nothing if not clever.
On Sunday we also watched Now You See Me, which is a crazy cool movie, Monday we took down all our Christmas decorations, and Tuesday night Shawnda, Becca and I headed to The Little for a girls night showing of August: Osage County, which was a pretty faithful adaptation of the Tracy Letts play, and even though I knew the story, it continued to surprise me at every turn.
Hope your weekend was wonderful and relaxing!
