Amanda’s 30th (!) birthday was last Wednesday. We are now in the same decade again, which has not happened in a while. She had to work in the morning, but we went out for a rare celebratory dinner in the evening. I picked up Amanda’s mom earlier in the day from the airport; she is in town visiting for a few weeks plus take her nursing boards.

After considering various options, I made reservations for La Medusa mainly because it is very close by and it is good to support businesses in the neighborhood. I believe we went there last year for her birthday as well, but I don’t think I mentioned it in the weblog. Before dinner, Amanda had a “renewal experience” with her mom at the student Aveda place in Capitol Hill. I met up with them and Lonan Kai at the Farmer’s market. Lonan Kai and his grandmother went home while Amanda and I walked to La Medusa.

Amanda had the prixe fixe Market Menu, which is a three course deal made with stuff from the nearby farmer’s market. It was a asparagus and other things salad, a pasta with a garlicky white wine sauce (the ear-type pasta), and strawberry shortcake. I got their salt cod fritters (yummy) and the fish-of-the-day which turned out to be halibut with a clam and wine sauce and some other veggies that I am forgetting. They were both very good and things I would completely not make at home. I actually had Amanda’s strawberry shortcake for dessert and she ordered some chocolate-y thing.

And we had wine. A couple of carafes of their house red.
Dinner was lovely. I did not take any pictures, but here is one from last year:

It looks like we got some olives and almonds. Hmm, maybe we got them this year as well. And an actual bottle of wine. I am wearing a MEC sweater so it was a lot cooler then.

Otherwise, life has been as the usual. Gardening, running about with Lonan Kai, etc. We had record breaking temperatures last week in the low 90s, but it was cooled off to more normal 70s now. We have been eating a lot of asparagus from the market and lettuce and spinach from our garden.