My Blog for Bonnie: iPhone Weekend

So this was a really great weekend! For starters, it's a long weekend, which is why this post is going up on a Monday instead of Sunday. Also, I got to spend a lot of time with people who matter very much to me. On Saturday, we went to dinner with my family to Don's Pomeroy House. This is definitely a "special occasion" type of restaurant, but we were celebrating two things. First, my brother found out he passed the Ohio Bar Exam and was recently sworn in as an attorney for the state of Ohio. That's right: my baby brother is a lawyer! That only makes me feel sliiiiiightly geriatric to say! All joking aside, he worked so hard to reach this goal. Even when he was in high school, he knew he wanted to eventually become a lawyer, making him one of the maybe 5% of people who actually do what they wanted to do when they were younger. Yay for him! We also celebrated the fact that my husband got a new job! He's been at his current company for over 7 years. It's a great place to work, but it's also far from home. His new company is much closer to our house and will provide a lot of valuable experience for his career. The process was long....we knew he was in the running for the position for about 6 weeks before finally getting the news that they were offering it to him! What a relief to hear the news and I am so excited for him!

Dinner at the Pomeroy House was a special Fixed Price menu for Cleveland Restaurant Week. We each got to choose 3 courses. I had the Red Chowder, Filet Mignon and Vanilla Bean Ice Cream. Mr. My Blog for Bonnie had the Stuffed Mushrooms, Swordfish and Chocolate Mousse. The rest of my family had several combinations of other dishes that were offered. Yum! It was so nice to celebrate some good news because this hasn't been the best of years for my immediate family. Granted, given the state of affairs that a lot of people have found themselves in the midst of, we are lucky. But we've still had some crappy curveballs thrown our way. It's glorious to be ending the year with some awesome news!

On Sunday, I got to get together with 2 of my amazing friends from high school! (Bonnie, of the My Blog for Bonnie title of this blog, is also a very close friend from high school!) These two particular friends, though, went downtown to see Beauty & The Beast with me. I actually saw this show back in like 1996 when it first came out. I saw it with my mom in Toronto. It was great then, and while I don't remember all of it, I remember enough to know that they updated it a lot more in this revival. There were a lot more special effects and the set design was different overall. We loved it! Before the show, we walked around Euclid Avenue looking for a place to get coffee. We ended up going into a new restaurant called Cowell & Hubbard. Instead of coffee, we treated ourselves to drinks. I had the "Peach Pomme Grenade" which consisted of Peach vodka, Chamomile, Pomegranate juice, Lemon and Canton. I loved it! The restaurant itself was very hip and modern. Lots of dramatic lighting and red upholstered seats. I love that these 2 girls used to goof off with me in Spanish 5 (though it was deemed an Advanced Placement course, I think we can all agree that no advanced learning ever took place. Unless you count making enchiladas as a class in the home-ec room or watching 'Como Agua Para Chocolate' as intensive Spanish training). And flash forward a lot of years later, we are still goofing off and laughing as much as we did then. I had such a fun time that it was easier to stomach the fact that I stumbled into a $20 parking lot by accident and had to fork over that amount of money just to park my car. Ack! Oh well, at least I was directly across from the theater, which made getting home a breeze!