An AMAZING Evening!!

Elida came over and cooked for me tonight. And she cooks like no other! I am seriously beginning to appreciate Mexican cooking. Elida's work is nothing like what you find in restaurants which I've had a hard time getting used to. Tonight, she cooked Chile Rellenos...and from scratch, as usual. I had never tried them in restaurants since they always looked just covered in gook. Elida's were simply AMAZING!

She also brought some cake. And she and Ezra sang me the B-day song which made me blush like a petunia (the pink ones). How lucky can I get to have Elida come over and cook AT MY HOUSE for me? And, she made both Ezra and I belly-laugh for half an hour at some crazy stories she has.

Then we went to Bissap Baobab to top off the wonderful evening. Ezra joined us. And because it was my special day, and Elida was there to advocate for me, I got in free and I got a hibiscus martini on the house. That was pretty neat. Check out the eerily loooong arm in that one picture, especially the fingers. I giggled when I saw that. I think it's the night vision mode that elongated the guy's arm beyond the norm.

The dancing was super fun...but you know what absolutely made me jump like a little kid? Elida pointed out the one and only Matt Gonzalez there. As we left, we casually walked by him, but my heart jumped. I bashfully confided in Elida that I felt like a groupie and really wanted a picture with him. So she arranged that too. Elida is the coolest!

Tant pis for the gigantic shadow covering my face, making me look like a she-bear, but it is me between Matt Gonzalez and John West. I tried googling John West to no avail, but he's Green Party too, won a race recently, and IS a Green Party Mayor somewhere in New York State. Sorry I didn't catch the actual town. Isn't that cool??