Wedding: Laura & Marco

09.12.2009
Houston Ballroom

From 6pm-7pm: Dinner. From 7pm-1am: Dancing. I remember big poppa and I looking at each other and going wth when we read the invitation? But wut else do you expect when you attend a Mexican wedding. Lots of booze and lots of hip action. Laura and Marco are high school sweethearts and have been dating for TEN years! They have a son who is six or seven years old and lemme tell ya, if only I can look as good as Laura after bearing a child. Big poppa and I had a great time. Highlights include, chips and salsa appetizer and fajita entree and the dollar dance where I danced with the bride and big poppa danced with the groom. All night long, I kept wondering when they were gonna cut the cake so I could have some cake! I've been on this extended sweet crave-a-thon. When big poppa and I left at around 10:30pm, the cake still hadn't been cut, but true to the invite, the dancing was in full swing.

This is Laura and Marco simply pretending to cut the cake for pictures sake. He's all sweaty from all that dancing!

I later noticed that someone else had been even more excited about the cake than I was.

The before and after:

Musik Mundi: Pete Yorn

I've been listening to some of Pete Yorn's new stuff this week and I find myself remembering how much I liked his Music For The Morning After album. Not that there isn't any good stuff in his new stuff but seriously, who can forget Just Another? Big poppa and I have a sorta diff taste in music but when we first started dating, it was a track that the both of us had on our playlist. Then, I hoped that I wasn't just another girl. Hah! I thot to use him after seeing an interview with him on the telly talking about the new album he has out with Scarlett Johansson, Break Up. He talked about how he asked his good friend Scarlett to do the album with him without even knowing if she could sing or not. Good thing she could! Sorta. But in any case, where are all MY singer-song writer friends as who want ME to do an album with them?!?

*photo courtesy of amazon.com*


Pete Yorn
Album: Music For The Morning After (2001)
Song: Just Another

Trippin': New York City - Apple Store

767 Fifth Ave
New York City, NY 10153

One of the cool places that I think is a twice quick must check is the twenty-four hour Apple Store in NYC. My posse and I headed out there around midnight one night and in the afternoon another night. It's quite the sight! Esp at night. The entrance to this store is basically this huge transparent cube. When walking into the cube, you have the choice to either use the elevator or the spiral staircase to go down to the actual Apple store. So cool. The elevator is freaking awesome. It supposedly uses giganto magnets to move the elevator car up and down. No wires or whatever! The eye catcher is that right above the elevator, possibly right in the center of the giganto cube, is the Apple logo. At night, it is brightly illuminated in all of it's LCD glory. We simply went down the elevator. Took some fotos from inside the store and back up we went. Even so, the night was not over.


Apple by night:

Apple by day:

Just a pic of the lovely engaged and soon to be married couple. And to the right is either an ad for Apple or AT&T. Hah!

Just some random standing around outside of the Apple store fotos of us sharing stories of how crazy tired our feet were. And for some reason, the first foto kinda makes me laugh.

Restaurant: NOE

4 Riverway
Houston, TX 77056

Our last stop with the whole restaurant week (which ended in August and I'm just now getting to it!) was a visit to NOE. Chef Robert Gadsby popularized this restaurant a few years back but has since then left. Even so, we wanted to try it anyway. Mochi and Chacco joined big poppa and I for the dinner. I normally would try to order from the HRW menu but the items on there weren't exactly appealing to me. The restaurant is located at the Omni Houston Hotel. It was prolly the first time in Houston that I've ever dined in a restaurant that was located in a hotel. The place is nice but because we went on a Monday night, it was pretty quiet and empty. There were maybe only three other groups of diners. Overall, the food simply did not overwhelm. More on the dishes below.

Chacco was the only one who ordered from the HRW menu. Her first course was jumbo scallop and truffle carpaccio in yuzu vinaigrette and pomme granate syrup. This wasn't so good. The scallop tasted very fishy and the sauce didn't do anything to make the dish stand out.

Chacco's entree was a steamed grouper on crushed garlic potato & roasted tomato “provencal brandade” style. I can only remember it being slightly unremarkable.

Chacco's dessert was also pretty disappointing. She chose the passion fruit bavarois and fresh raspberry coulis. It had this weird tarty bitterness to it that left us not wanting more.

Big poppa wanted to try a scallop appetizer also so he ordered the provencal style sea scallops in tomato, mushroom and chive oil. When it first came out, we were all very excited because it had a very strong almost asian aroma to it. But taste wise it was disappointing cos the scallops were overcooked.

For his entree he chose the braised beef shortrib with artichokes, baby potato and sauce bordelaise. I think this was just ok.

Mochi ordered the wild striped sea bass with herb crusted leek and mushroom risotto and saffron carrot puree. I can not remember her thots on her dish.

The crab mac and cheese was DELISH! I'm not a fan of crab so I wish there was less of it but other than that, I couldn't stop eating it!

I played it safe and ordered the grilled marinated chicken breast sandwich. I know. I went to a nice place just to eat a chicken sandwich?!? I'm a foodie that lives vicariously through other real foodies. Haha!

The creme brulee was no bueno. It did not have that cream texture that I love and there was lots of extra sugar that had not been caramelized. Not good!