Wetting down, Macbeth, Valentines, Food

Kelsey's top priority for the past week has been reminding me to write this post. My great achievement has been forgetting to do so. Well, tonight she is at a work event the dentist (the work event was last night when I ALMOST finished this post) and so I remembered.

First, some more pictures from my promotion ceremony:

Kelsey pinned on my bars...

They let me talk for a few minutes...

And we all shook hands and hugged.

That Thursday, we went to go see GGSS's production of Macbeth. Emily Goo was in town, so it was a true GGSS reunion.

Getting some food before the show.

The next day was my "wetting down." This is a tradition that I believe exists because everyone in my office told me it exists, and it involves me buying all of them drinks for several hours. 

Since that wasn't starting until 7PM and I finished with work around 3PM, I took the opportunity to go tour some museums. Since Kelsey wasn't with me, I got to go to the insect exhibit in the Natural History Museum. 

And then I sent her this picture. I named him Shuffles.

Then I headed on over to the bar that Dan and I had rented out (Dan promoted as well). The night was bittersweet because it was also a farewell to my first boss, Andrew. He was a big part of what made my trial rotation something I looked forward to almost every day. In court I would hand him notes - sometimes with useful things to say on them, and sometimes with quotes from movies. He would read off of both. 

Current and former Blue Team members gathered to commemorate the occasion.

Alex, Kelly, and Absi also came out!

We stayed until midnight, which is officially the latest that Kelsey and I have been at a bar in D.C. since the night we met. We are not late-night partiers and have difficulty pretending to be so.

Of course, we couldn't stop celebrating because it was also Valentine's Day weekend. So...

Brunch at Tazza Kitchen the next day.

Part of our Valentine's Day meal. We made this: http://www.eatout.co.za/recipe/jamie-olivers-skinny-carbonara-smoky-bacon-peas-almonds-basil-2/

The card I gave to Kelsey. She cries at every card so at this point I've just started getting cards that I enjoy.

For Valentine lunch we went to Daikaya. 

If you have lived your life, as I have, assuming that ramen only comes in dry packs and should be eaten only as an indicator that you can not afford anything else, then I highly recommend finding a Japanese restaurant that makes real ramen. Then order a dozen or so extra eggs, because the best part of real ramen is the soy-poached egg that sits inside it and tastes like a savory custard. 

For after-Valentines meals (I mean, we still had to eat, right?) I roasted a giant lamb something. Leg? It might have been leg. It lasted for an entire week of lunches alongside the pictured roasted potatoes that Kelsey made.

So that catches us up to mid-February. More to follow from Kelsey.