Good weekend so far

So this weekend, one of our friends had his birthday party, and it wasn't scheduled until late, so a few of us went out for dinner beforehand.  Our friends Bret and Jess have been going to this bar for a few years, which also has a sushi bar.  They started eating there, and have become good friends with the head sushi chef.  And this is where we went for dinner last night.  I've always wanted to try sushi before, but I wanted it to be at a very good place, not something that'd been sitting in the grocery store deli for a while. 

And let me tell you, it was GREAT!  The chef knew it was my first time trying sushi, so the first roll, he went easy on us.  Yum.  He made up a plate with all kinds of raw fish, tuna, mackerel, and some octopus limbs, thinly slice.  The octopus was surprisingly delicious.  I can't even count how many different rolls he made up for us.  We didn't order off the menu, the sushi chef just started making rolls as we were eating.  Everything was great.  There were a few rolls with roe on top - orange eggs were "regular" and the green ones were wasabi flavored.  I had tried a bit of wasabi paste earlier, and decided I didn't much care for it, so we tried to scrape most of the green ones off, but it was still pretty spicy.  But the regular eggs were fun.  Not a lot of flavor, but they POP! every time you bite down on one.  Like a little party in your mouth.  Mmm.  He even made us a dessert roll, with sliced up strawberries, rice, sweet soft shell crab, and it was deep fried.  Nice and sweet and good.  All in all, a great experience for my first time (and hopefully not last) eating sushi.  I will definitely have it again.

We went to the birthday party right after, which was a lot of fun.  I didn't know most of the people there, but a good time was had by all.  I gave one of our friends, Anna, my camera, because she said she likes to take pictures when she's been drinking, so that was good, because I got a bunch of pictures of people I don't even know, but some of people I do know, always a plus.

Odin's CitiKitty toilet training kit came in the mail today!  I'm glad it came on the weekend so I can be home for it for a few days.  It's got a shallow pan that fits over the rim of the toilet, and you put your seat down over that to hold it in place.  Then you pour some litter in, and train the cat to get used to using the litter box up on the toilet seat.  Then, as he successfully uses the litter box for one week, you start removing from the center rings, which allow some litter to fall in the toilet, and as you remove more, the cat gets used to supporting himself on the seat.  Eventually, you take away the whole contraption, once all the rings have been removed, and ta-dah!  A toilet trained cat!  No more litter again!!  Hopefully it will only take a couple of months to train him, because we only have the one bathroom, so we have to take the kit off every time Aaron or I want to use the toilet.

That's about it for now!

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