Michelle Smiles

Teaching my children to question authority, except mine.

Another post about nothing

August17

With the adoption related drama, which I cryptically eluded to on Monday, I didn’t get a chance to tell you all how my Sunday began. It may have ended with anxiety, nausea, and a general sense of outrage, but it began as the perfect day.

It was beautiful outside warm, sunny, no humidity, not a cloud in the sky. Steve and I went down to the strip district. We went to brunch at Lydia’s. If there is a more perfect meal than a Sunday morning brunch at Lydia’s I would be hard pressed to name it. Lydia’s is a lovely Italian restaurant – Lydia has a cooking show on PBS, lots of cookbooks, and restaurants in other cities.

Brunch is set up as a menu-compris. One price for all the courses and you choose your entre from the daily menu. We started with mimosas. Then a lovely anti-pasta bar with heavenly salads, meats, and cheeses. A wonderful basket of pastries and muffins was waiting on our table. (I’m a muffin whore. And if I could get my hands on decent pastries – Danish and bear claws do NOT count – I would be a pastry whore too.) The main course for me was a pasta sampling – you start with a small portion of the 3 daily pasta specials and the waiters float around the dining room with skillets of 3 different types and give you refills as you request them (I couldn’t do refills – stuck with one sample of each). The ravioli stuffed with pear, mascarpone, parmesan, and asiago cheeses was an eyes-roll-back-in-your-head experience. Steve got something else but with my eyes rolling back in my head I didn’t notice. Finally, there was a lovely dessert table with tiramisu, tarts, cakes and cookies. I tried the raspberry tart and a pistachio & lemon cannoli. Yummo! Yes, I just spent an entire paragraph talking about my meal. It was that good.

After brunch, we wandered around the strip for a bit. I did something completely out of character for me. I did some Christmas shopping in August. My husband was in awe (is this my wife who pays $75 on 12/23 to get a box of gifts to her mom by Christmas?). It was effortless because I wasn’t trying to do Christmas shopping. I just came across a few things that I thought my mom and my mother in law would enjoy. And Steve mentioned something his brother would like so we picked that up too. I actually have a really good start on Christmas. And it is only August!
Steve said something about heading down to the strip again this Sunday. He wants to go to a different restaurant. I don’t see why. It can’t get better than Lydia’s. I’m willing to try it I guess. We’ll see if this restaurant he wants to go to is worthy of a whole paragraph.

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“Another post about nothing”

  1. On September 4th, 2007 at 8:56 pm Michelle Smiles » Blog Archive » Trip Home Says:

    […] diet pepsi in the dark theater (Bourne Ultimatum…2 thumbs up).? Sunday morning we went to my favorite brunch place which of course made me very happy.? (I have archives now!? I can link to things I’ve talked […]

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