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A Busy Time
Well finaly our food arived and we got ready to dig in, in a very dignified way of course when we both reallized taht nether of us liked what we had orded. We decided to exchange plates in the hopes that the other would like what we did not. Well it wasn't to be. We sat there realizing that we were eating a hundred dollar dinner and weren't going to enjoy it at all. Our first thought was to send it back and order something else when it became obviouse that is we didn't like two of the ten dish menu that the chances weren't high we would like anything else either. We decided to tough it out and finish what we had. Spending the whole time joking about our plebien tastes and how I much prefered the previous nights dinner from McDonalds over this, at least I know that I would like it and that it would fill me up. The saving grace to the meal was the desert. I had a strawberry bannay sorbet that was just devine and David chose a chocolate waver that melted in your mouth. David did offer to stop by McDonalds on the way to top off the meal but I told him that I was able to choke down enough of the dinner to be satisfied. I'm sure that the meal no matter how disapointed was not really reflection on the chef but on our as I said very plebian tastes. But I must admit that most of our friends and aquaintences have equally low brow palets and that I won't be recommending it to any of them. Especially at the One Hundred Dollar price tag. Even for a meal that I thurally enjoy that is a hefty price tag.
We went straight from Zin to the symphony. We knew we had plenty of time so we took our time and stopped and spoke to a professor and his wife I know from the univeristy. We were seated up in the balcany as I had been told that the acoustics up there are the best. We got settled in our seats and prepared not to be entertained but to be bored. And the first movement didn't disappoint.
The second and third movement were a real surpise after the first. I stopped figeting and got down to really enjoying the performance. The forth and last movement was stupenduse at the end of which the audience spontaneusly rose to its feet for a ten minute standing ovation.
ciao
