Wow, talk about an exciting week! On Wednesday, Anna and I went to our first cake tasting. We tasted some of this lady’s cakes at the bridal forum a couple of weeks back and were pretty impressed. You can check out her website at www.sweetestperfections.com and view some of her creations. Prior to the tasting, she gave us options to choose when it comes to the type of cakes/filling/etc. Anna and I made our choices and sent it to her. She works out of her home and her entire basement is a commercial sized kitchen. Needless to say, the cakes were really good and we got to sit and chat with her pertaining to some ideas we had for our cakes. She was very open to our suggestions and willing to work with us. All of us had a very good experience with one another. It also helps that she’s a big foodie like me so we connected on that level too! After the cake tasting, Anna and I visited the Foell family. The cake tasting was less then three blocks from where Panom and David live. I definitely wanted to pay them a visit to see how Panom was doing especially with the death of her mom. She’s doing better and she also shared with us that she’s pregnant! Yay! The baby is due the very end of April or maybe even early May. I’m so excited for them and personally I’m wishing they get a girl just to even things a little more. They already have two boys and I know Panom would really love a girl. The boys are excited to say the least.
On Thursday, we went to Wicked, the musical which is most definitely one of the hottest musical tickets out there right now. Can you believe that if you did not get tickets when we did, the cost of a premium seat would be $130?! It’s crazy. Oh, prior to Wicked, Anna treated me to dinner at Miyabi 9 which is my go to Japanese restaurant. As soon as we walked in, the chef/owner recognized me and I apologized for being away for so long. I once again, ordered the omakase and it was to die for. He did a couple of different things that were just out of this world. Anna decided to play it safe and ordered off the menu. She did order a scallop nigiri, and loved it. I gave her different tastings of my orders and she was more than adventurous to try some of them. What a great way to get the evening started! The musical itself was a lot of fun and it had more than its fair share of catchy tunes. I can see why a lot of people love it and keep going back to see it. Now that I’ve seen it once, would I pay $130 to see it again? I won’t, but it does not take away from how good it was.
We went to Mass on Saturday evening because Anna was the cantor and also because after Mass, it was the welcome reception for our new priest. He went to Mundelein seminary some years back and knew a couple of faculty there. What do I think of him? Well, he’s not John or Jim, but I’m sure he’ll do fine. They’ve been a couple of things going on at St. Kate’s involving this new priest, the bishop and a couple of people that’s not sat down well with me. I’ll spare you the details, but for now I’m going to reserve my comments. I’ll give this guy some time to settle down. It was definitely a lot of fun chatting with dad, mom and sis on Saturday. Isn’t technology just great? I’m sure there’s a way where we can all chat and view the videos at the same time. I’ll have to figure that one out.
This Friday, Anna and I will be going our second and final cake tasting and am looking forward to it. The one that will be going to are the people who created my 30th birthday cake, and I know they’ll do an amazing job with the cake no matter what. We’ll see what Anna thinks of it. Later that evening, we’ll be going to a concert at Drake and the performer is an amazing jazz artist named Kurt Elling. Anna loves him and I know she’s more than pumped for it. After the concert, we’ll get to go to a post concert reception at Lucca in East Village for donors. Yay! I know it’ll be a grand evening for sure.
On Saturday, the weather is supposed to be in the high 50s which is uncharacteristically cool for this time, and I’ll be watching one of my former RE students play soccer. He’s excited to be playing back in DM and I hope he gets to score a goal. That would be icing on the cake. Later that night, we have a couple of friends over so we’ll have lots of food and a good time chatting and catching up with one another. Yay!
That’s the news from me for now.
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