Tonight, we walked up to one of our favorite neighborhood restaurants called Circa for dinner for a special New Year's outing. We get too tired to stay up until midnight these days so going out for dinner is a special enough occasion for us. It was just a last minute idea since we didn't have any other plans for the evening. If we do stay up until midnight, we can see the fireworks at the Space Needle from our house, although it is far away so it's not that spectacular for us. If we want to walk to dinner, there are several places we can walk to but Circa is our favorite. It was very festive in the restaurant tonight. They even had a special New Year's menu tonight. I ordered the Absinthe Bubbly to start off. Absinthe is an anise-flavoured distilled, highly alcoholic spirit similar to gin. It is one of the alcohols in a Sazerac (along with whiskey) that is a New Orleans classic, where it originated. ...