Oh the anticipation

I have many things I'm looking forward to:

1) Vietnam. We are working on visa's as we speak. I'm booking hotels in Hanoi this weekend. We are reviewing Halong Bay junks. I think we are going to take a food tour one day and a cooking class.

Could it get any better???

2) Soba tasting at Tei An Sunday - Adam is on the board of the Japan America Society, and he told me that they were having this event a couple of weeks ago. I'm glad we signed up early. 65 people are coming. My knowledge of soba is extremely limited. Seriously, my knowledge of Japanese food in general is limited. I have spent so many years focused on sushi, that I completely disregarded the rest of diet.

I've been slowly but surely working my way through the items on the wall at Sushiyama, but I think its time I took it a step further.

3) DaKleins formerly in Oman and now Australia are coming to visit - They are taking three weeks off to visit the family in Houston and are being ever so sweet to drive up and visit me and Kerry early next week. Pam is in the middle of a cat SNAFU with Sammi and a bit down, but we can cheer her up. I think Sammi is trapped in Oman at the moment because they will not export him to Australia. Or it might be that Australia does not want an Omani kitty. Either way, he is in limbo and currently being snuck under the border to Dubai. Cross your fingers Australia is ok with Dubai kitties.

4) If I had written this yesterday I would have added my excitement about doing dinner at Charlie Palmer last night. While the food was devine, I had issues with the service. It wasn't horrible. Don't get me wrong, but when someone is paying that much for dinner, I guess I expect the service level to be 10 notches higher. You shouldn't have to ask twice for your martini.

But I discoverd the next new item for the State Fair. Lobster corny dogs. They brought that out and everyone devoured them. Served with dijon mustard. A little bit of fried heaven.