The trick to good service at Indian Restaurants

Is to go without any boys :) You may recall that a while back I blogged about how we have so many indian restaurants in the neighborhood, but all with incredibly sucky service. Well, last night after getting our nails done, Diana and I went to Tandoori Nights. We had great service. Once We ordered pader khadai the guy goes "well thats ok, but get this masala dish, its the better dish". We were a bit skeptical, but ultimately decided to try it, and he was right it was delicious. I've never had friendlier and faster service at this particular restaurant. Just for comparison last time it took like 40 min between ordering and getting food and the table next to us in that time sat down ate and paid! wtf. Anyway now i know, take out with peter, sit down with lady friends :)

Outdoor Kinda Weekend

This weekend Kristin (a friend from highschool) was in town looking for apartments. We took a super long walk so she could see almost every neighborhood. We started in georgetown, walked up through dupont to kalorama, up to adams morgan, back down to U street, then over to logan circle and then almost to foggy bottom. Thats probably up there with the longest walks i've taken in DC, and certainly the longest in super hot weather!

Sunday peter and I went out to germantown to go blueberry picking! We now have 9 lbs of blueberries! I am going to make so many pies!

Stupid Truck

OK every morning on my way into work there is one turn that aggravates me. There are 2 left turn lanes that are super long, usually it takes about 2-3 light cycles to get through. Every day one or two jerkmobiles go up to the front and cut everyone off (although i rarely let them infront of me, other nicer people on the road let them in). Today it was so much worse. A giant truck pulled that move. The kind of truck that needs both lanes to make the sharp turn anyway. I was so angry that I took a picture with the intention of calling the "how am i driving" line. I've deicded not to call, but i'll post the picture anyway so you can get an idea for how much of an asshole this driver is.

Futurama!

Did anyone else watch last night?

Yes that's right, after a series of direct to home movies ending with a cliffhanger where this season picked up, its back! Thanks Comedy Central! It was pretty good too! We'll see how the rest of the season goes to see if its fully back, but from the 2 episodes last night its a good start :)

Also as much as I'm enjoying the world cup, its seriously interfering with my sleep :( I'm so tired! I didnt even watch any of the games last night. meh :(

Disney Hates Giving Things For Free

So a few months back we bought Toy Story and Toy Story 2 on Blu Ray. Both came with a card that said "One Free Ticket To Toy Story 3!!!". So we did what any pixar loving people would do, and saved those codes in an obvious location in our apt. Finally when it came time to use it we actually still had it and one hour before the show thought to redeem them. We went to the indicated website, and joined the disney club (of course they were going to require that). What happened next was the incredible, we had to jump through hoops for the next THIRTY minutes trying to figure out which page leads to the next and which new codes to use etc. It was RIDICULOUS. They couldnt have made it any more difficult. Finally we went down to the printer and printed out the tickets only to see "good for $8.50 worth of tickets"....WHAT DECADE DID DISNEY THINK THIS WAS? Even if we had seen TS3 on a normal screen we would have had to pay a combined additional 5 dollars since the base ticket now a days is 11 bucks. On top of that we decided to see it in 3D (not even imax 3D) and had to pay a combined additional 12 dollars!!!! Thats an entire extra ticket for a normal movie! I dont know who i'm more annoyed at, disney for being so cheap, or the theaters for charging such outrageous prices!!!!

Toy Story 3

Clearly I've already seen this movie. It was awesome. However, clearly I did not like it as much as the rest of the adults in the theater. Something would happen that referenced another movie or something and the adults would laugh as hard as they could, some even literally slapping their knees. It is unclear to me if they actually thought it was that funny, or if they wanted everyone else to know that they got the joke. I mean I was amused, but those particular parts weren't laugh out loud funny.

The end of the movie (without trying to spoil anything) was super sentimental, and I did my best not to cry. I kept telling myself, its just a movie and you cannot cry for a toy (those of you thinking its a spoiler, its not what you think). Anyway I highly recommend this movie!

Also, We did see it in 3D which is by no means necessary.

What a JAG pary

This weekend Leslie briefly flew through town and stayed just long enough for a little fun and a lot of pool time.

Sat night we decided to have a fiesta with us three, the farmers, and evan le gwinn. We made tamales and sangria (lots of sangria) and went down to the patio by the pool to eat. Not too long after we got there, we could see inside the party room to see that some amazon girls in cowboy hats and some michael bolton look alikes were having a party inside with lots of food and a keg. We stayed outside and were thinking eventually thier party would grow in size, but it plateaued pretty early. By 11 thier rental of the party room was over, and to noone's surprise most of the keg must have remained...so what did they do? They brought it out to the idiots sitting outside in 200 degree weather. They filled up our now empty sangria pitcher, and even hung out for a bit. They hung out long enough for us to find out they were all Jag's...literally.