Tuesday is my partner's birthday, but we celebrated a little bit early. Last night I took him for a surprise dinner at Metro Lafayette. It was a cool little restaurant in the middle of this random town east of the Oakland hills. There are a lot of interesting restaurants out there. They even gave us dessert free for his birthday...dense Valrhona chocolate brownies with dried cherries in port and lavender creme anglaise. They gave us miniature water glasses, and the water filler never let our glasses get below 3/4 full. She must have come 10 times during the dinner to top us off. Then Emily joined us at the Bench & Bar. I don't know if I'll ever to go the Castro for dancing again after that. Bench & Bar is right in downtown Oakland, and it's got a much better mix of people than I've ever seen in the Castro. It got a bit irritating after midnight when they had a show--and we preferred just to dance. The coolest thing was, earlier in the night, the mix of music they played--from hip hop to house dance to salsa and merengue to some really fast couple dance that was cool to watch but I had no idea how to dance to it. It was funny to see how the mix on the dancefloor shifted depending on the music. And the people had style. It was great.
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Yay! Cory's Birth!
Yay! Bench and Bar!
Yay! Seeing you on a sunday night!
Life is good.
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