Sylvia's Scenario

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.  Since I've been to New Orleans a f

We are enjoying the calm after the storm.  I'm referring to the whirl-wind of Christmas plus also the actual snow storm we had resulting in a white Christmas this year, a rarity around here.      We were so lucky to have a white Christmas this year.  Seattle only gets a white Christmas 7 out of 100 Christmas's.  Plus, it started snowing on Christmas Eve and was still snowing on Christmas morning to make it even more exciting. Here is a photo from our front porch on Christmas Eve.  It was so serene.     We went out for dinner to Ivar's Acres of Clams on Christmas Eve, one of our favorite places to eat.  We drove the suburban in 4-wheel drive to pick up Lauren and Ari and then drove to the restaurant which was only a few miles away on the waterfront.     Seattle is not equip to deal with snow and with all the hills, it makes it a challenge to drive so we were glad we had a large vehicle with 4-wheel drive.  The restaurant was still bustling and i