A vegetarian nightmare...

Didn't realize until I logged in that I hadn't blogged in a few days.  Sorry about that.  It's been a crazy few days.  Kevin is here - we picked him up from the airport in Kansas City yesterday.  You know that friend that you can fall immediately in sync with again no matter how long it's been since you saw each other?  Kevin's one of those.  We got our Ph.D.s together.  He's a post-doc right now and extremely busy so we don't talk very often, but we've had a fabulous time catching up so far.

After picking him up, we decided to walk around the plaza area of KC.  Very swanky stores.  Very fun window shopping.  We decided to go to Fogo de Chao for dinner.  It's a Brazilian steakhouse (churrascaria), which I'm pretty sure translates from Portuguese as "humungous amounts of dead animals". Or something to that effect.  Dave and I went there for our 10th anniversary and meant to go there this year too, but a little person named Ian kinda canceled those plans.  So last night was celebrating Kevin's visit and a belated 11th anniversary.  Actually, Ian was very much present when we went on our 10th - I was about a 5 weeks away from having him and my stomach was the size of a raisin.  So in a restaurant with the most amazing salad bar I've ever seen and gauchos waiting to offer you 14 (no exaggeration) different kinds of pork, beef, and chicken, I ate 3 lettuce leaves and a sausage that night.  Oh well, last night I made up for it. :)  Dave and Kevin had a great time too - Dave never gets lamb any more (Kansas - not so much the lamb state).  So when offered (multiple times), a leg of lamb cooked just the way he likes it (still bleeding) and mint-encrusted lamb chops, he said yes, please.  I had the sausages and a small piece of parmesan-encrusted pork loin.  Kevin was in love with the bacon-wrapped filet mignon.  And then there was our son....


So, this was Ian's first restaurant with tablecloths and cloth napkins.  We take him everywhere, including restaurants, so he's really pretty well behaved, especially considering he's 13 months old - we've just gotten used to leaving big tips because of the messy aftermath.  Last night was a long dinner (hey, salad bar + 14 kinds of meat takes a while), and Ian's afternoon nap lasted 15 minutes.  So he wasn't in the mood to try new things and chicken nuggets were NOT on the menu.  So he had half a roll, some cheese (OMG, the cheese!) and then the waiter brought out a sliced fruit plate (unsolicited) of sliced bananas, strawberries, and blueberries.  With whipped cream.  I said thank you and looked at him like "I hope you know how much cleanup this is going to involve."  So Ian ate 2 banana slices and ALL of the whipped cream.  Then he had fun with the rest of his dinner (the floor saw a lot of it) and the tablecloth.

We're off for more fun in Lawrence today.  Weather is supposed to be about 75 degrees with 20mph winds.  Which will guarantee 2 things - a great afternoon on Massachusetts street and a REALLY bad hair day for me.