Food: Parallel 37

chipotle recently had a birthday, so in honor of the occasion, he wanted to eat at Parallel 37. With dracosphynx driving, we headed up via BART and navigated the streets of San Francisco to the Ritz-Carlton, with a minor 'whoops' due to there being two overlapping roads-- there's a road named Stockton which runs through a tunnel, but the actual restaurant was on the road above it, which is *also* named Stockton. Thanks, San Francisco!

We ordered the 5-course tasting menu, with wine pairing for chipotle and dracosphynx; I eschewed since I'm not a drinker; I'm told I missed a great deal that way since the flavor of the wines and the courses interact. I pled for 'non-scary seafood', and they were very accommodating on the subject. Seems the way a tasting menu works is the chefs cook what they want, but they can adapt the selection if people have different preferences, i.e. non-gluten, non-dairy, etc.

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Catching Up: Learning To Make Donuts

For a while now, dracosphynx has been encouraging me to take cooking classes. He finally got me to do it with a class on 'homemade donuts' -- it was even at a 50% discount. Ooh!

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Catching Up: Mountain View Oktoberfest

More pictures from my phone that I have somehow neglected to upload until now!

While browsing around for things happening in town, I noticed a Mountain View Oktoberfest within walking distance. It seemed likely to be a smallish sort of thing so I didn't think dracosphynx would be interested, but I figured I'd better get out of the house.

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Catching Up: Sweet and Sour Chicken, Mediterranean Food, Fudge

More pictures to catch up on! I shall group these under 'food', I think.

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Googleween

With Google being such a large company, our company Halloween party is also quite a shindig. It's held out in a large park area that's normally used for sports and there are two events: one on Wednesday for the parents with kids, and one on Thursday for the adults. Here, check out these pictures.

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