{Dinner at Voula’s Greek restaurant & bakery and a stroll through the Memorial Art Gallery gardens and Neighborhood of the Arts with Kristen for our joint birthday celebration. Our table at Voula’a was a vintage desk with a drawer. I opened the drawer to find a pile of sweet notes other diner’s had left behind. So awesome! Almost as awesome as their jalapeno dip. Kristen is moving to Vegas in September and I am going to miss her and our Rochester adventures like crazy}
{Mediterranean wine tasting class with my friend Chelsea at the Rochester Brainery. At the top of the class – before delving into tales of Mediterranean travel and their accompanying wine tasting matches – we all got to blind taste a mystery wine and had to write down on an index card what we thought about it. While most everyone wrote fancy stuff like “notes of grapefruit, acidic, Sauvignon blanc, smoky, etc.” the awesome person whose card I got wrote “smells like my basement” – which wasn’t too far off from what I wrote. This person and I were clearly meant to be friends}
{Celebrating the post-Showcase conclusion of Summer Academy 2014 with the rest of the faculty at The Distillery – man am I going to miss these wonderful, talented, funny people}
{Another celebratory dinner – Rochester’s BEST grass-fed burgers with local white cheddar, veggie slaw, a pile of fries, a combination ketchup-mayo-bourbon sauce, and some Prosecco sparkling wine with Ted and my father-in-law Jack at Good Luck}
{We had a LivingSocial deal to Bistro135 Jazz Lounge in East Rochester that we needed to use before its expiration. We sat out on their gorgeous patio and ate really delicious food. I had a fantastic arugula and roasted beet salad with goat cheese, ground pistachios, and orange flavored olive oil with crab cakes and remoulade. Ted had a classic Caesar salad packed with calamari and BBQ pulled pork sliders with garlic aioli. It was amazing! Definitely recommended – especially if you can score a deal there}
