Citronelle

We had Reservations at 7:30, but at 6:30 peter met me at home, flowers in hand, and a new cute haircut. It was going to be a great night

We got to the restaurant and we had a table waiting for us in the corner of the wine room, whites behind peter, reds to the left of us.

We got a bottle of reisling to split.

The non ordered starter was
* Quail egg (yes, i ate it out of curiosity)
* spinach gelatinous square of sorts
* one perfectly sauteed cherry tomato

The Appetizer
* Peter had Mock Beluga caviar (really pasta pearls with squid ink) on a bed of lobster meat served in a caviar tin on fake ice
* I had four different what looked like egg but non of which were
-The scrambled egg was realyl pureed green beans with some seasoning
-the hard boiled egg was really mozzarella cheese with a little yellow something
-the poached egg was really a corn puree
-the sunny side up egg was really melted Gruyere cheese with a little yellow something

This course was yummy and VERY creative!

The Main Course
-Peter got Skate wrapped around crab meat
-I got a six part veggie sampler which included awesome mac and cheese, some sauteed veggies, something that looked like cous cous but was really finely chopped potato, and this great layered thing fried potato layers and mashed potato layers

Also great food, This restaurant really gets a ton of points for being creative, but even more for being creative without sacrificing taste.

at this point we were going to get a cheese plate, but un ordered it because we were so full.

Non Ordered dessert
- Orange flavored whipped mouse square with raspberry sauce dribbled on it

Dessert
-A chocolate sampler plate that consisted of home made kit kat, chocolate popsicle, chocolate tart, and one other thing i cant remember.
-We got the special occasion cake and specified anniversary, so we got a 4" diameter chocolate shell with a happy anniversary sign on it. There was shaved gold flakes and fruits all over it. We dug in to find layers of ice cream, cake, and whipped cream. Best anniversary cake ever :)

Non Ordered post dessert dessert
-a sampler of 4 different types of finger food desserts. my favorite was what looked like a chocolate truffle, but when you bit in, it turned out to be a chocolate covered grape!

I have no complaints for the night, except that I wish i hadn't had the bread before the meal and left more space for the meal itself!

We already started saving coins for our next visit there :)

Manicures and Fancy Dinners

1. I got probably the worst french mani/pedi last night. I went to Hollywood_nails (yes they have an underscore in their name). I walked in at about 6:30 and didn't leave till about 8:30. How did it last so long you ask? well the manicurist moved at the pace of a snail in molasses. Also she didnt really speak English, so when I said "dont cut my cuticles" I shouldn't have been too surprised that the next thing she did was cut my cuticles. She also tried to make my nails as boxy (and un even)as she could with pointy corners until I asked her to make them round, to which she told me she thought they already looked nice...they didn't. And the best part is that the white lines of the french manicure are so thick they take up about half my nail and is not cute and delicate at all. I can give myself a better french manicure!!

2. Tonight for our anniversary peter and I are going to a fancy dinner at Citronelle, the best restaurant in DC. We are VERY excited :) I've been told that peter even called to confirm and let them know I'm a vegetarian (since its a fixed menu). I probably wont have time to blog about it tomorrow morning though b/c I have a 8:30 am presentation to give, so Look for the write up on friday instead.

Weekend

First off happy Patriots day.

This weekend was fun, a bunch of us went to Annapolis for Lindsay and Katie's bday. We started off with a fun boat ride on the woodwind, which you may recognize as the same boat they took out in Wedding Crashers! The best was when they asked for volunteers to help raise the sails and all of a sudden this guy with a curly mullet and round mirrored glasses. Katie goes "omg!" and then turns and his wife was standing right next to her with her perm and pink track suit. It was right out of a movie.

We then went back to katie's house for bbq on the water before returning to annapolis harbor to go to Pussers for some pain killers. On a whim Peter, Kate, Justin and I rented a hotel room so we didnt have to go back to va at night. best idea ever!

Anyway it was great weather, and a great weekend! I'd do it again :)

Friday Randoms

1. Joe and I saw the watchmen again. I still like it a lot, but I realized more this time than last how long the movie actually is.

2. Fresh 94.7 played the new radicals you get what you give last night which was the first decent song they have played yet (i dont try and listen, i just go through all my presets)

3. Someone stole my hub cap in silver spring last night! wtf. This has happened before and i spent like 30 bucks to get a new one on ebay. Do i do that again only to get stolen again? or do i just leave it? I dont know yet.

I think we can make this work

This morning, at 5 am, Peter left for Wisconsin till tomorrow night.

Peter: I really think we can make this long distance thing work
Rachel: I dont know, long distance is really just for high school seniors that want to get laid.

;)

Radio again

I was trying not to blog about this because I use to complain about these things a lot on the blog so you are probably all sick of it. But Its been about a week and I cant hold back anymore.

One of my favorite area radio stations (preset #2) 94.7 The arrow, with some great classic rock, has changed to Fresh 94.7. Its always very disturbing when this happens, I was driving into work one morning, and it was already on the station from the night before, and I was expecting to hear some classic rock.....but no. I heard what could only be discribed as cheezy old school girly rock, and not the good kind.

This station promises Today's Fresh Music....

Songs I've heard:
* I dont want to wait - Paula Cole
* Some Alanis Moressett lesser known song but i forget which one
* I dont want to be - Gavin Degraw
* Genie in a bottle - Christina agulara

Does that sound like music of today to anyone?

No. It sounds like music from my high school days, and i'm comming up on my 10 year reunion this year.

Fresh FM...You are now THE WORST preset on my radio dial.

Go Wizards?

Last night (thank to Lem again) peter and i went to the last wizards home game. It was almost an exciting game except with seconds left the wizards lost their lead and never regained it :( In other words, as soon as antwan jamison was injured and went back to the locker room, the team fell apart.

My big surprise came in the first quarter when I wasnt really paying attention to the raptors and i hear over the loudspeaker "basket by mensah-bonsu". WHAT? How did I not know Pops was playing for the raptors! how exciting! For those of you that dont know what i'm talking about, for four glorious years, I watched exciting game after exciting game at GW. This of course was thanks to star player Pops Mensah Bonsu. I immediately texted laurie out of excitement. She already knew. THEN on the jumbo tron they show wolf blitzer watching the game from the stands! Did I somehow time travel back to 2003 at the smith center?