Catching Up

Being busy with house guests and people away for Christmas, we finally had a chance to catch up with friends this weekend. We were able to try two new restaurants - Com Nieu (a Vietnamese rice claypot restaurant) and New York Steakhouse and Winery - two very different spots. Not only was Com Nieu about a tenth the price of the New York Steakhouse, the food was much better (if you can compare lemongrass fish to a ribeye?). Both nights out were enjoyable although after getting in rather late on Friday and Caleb not getting the memo about Saturday being a sleep in day, we were exhausted by the time we got home from dinner on Saturday. Today, we enjoyed the cooler (+25 degrees) weather and did the 5 km loop walk in our neighborhood. We ended up at Mekong Merchant for brunch and got Caleb back in time for his nap before he melted down.

Dinner at Com Nieu with the gang - tossing clay pots, amazingly good lemongrass fish, crispy rice... delicious

I finally got a picassa album together of our Christmas & New Year's photos. I still have not labelled them all but this a start! I also started a One Year Old album for Caleb including a couple cute ones of Caleb out at Mekong Merchants today.